Introduction
It is our pleasure to announce that the 8th International Geotechnical Symposium on Disaster Mitigation (8IGS) will be held in Sapporo, Japan, on May 2020 which is organized by ATC3 under the auspices of Japanese Geotechnical Society. This series of conference has been organized under Asian Technical Committee 3 on Natural Hazards (ATC3) of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) which is currently chaired by Prof. Mitsu Okamura of Ehime University, Japan. The past events were highly successful respectively in Astana 2005, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 2007, Harbin 2009, Khabarovsk 2011, Inchon 2013, Chennai 2015 and Chengdu 2017. We would sincerely appreciate your contribution to the symposium.
Goal
Landslides caused by heavy rain and ground disasters caused by earthquakes have occurred frequently in Asia. In Japan, landslide disasters by heavy rain occurred in wide areas of western Japan last year. The Hokkaido Iburi east earthquake caused many slope failures in the hilly area of Atsuma town and liquefaction damage in the residential area of Sapporo city. Earthquake induced geo-disasters in Sulawesi and Java, Indonesia, and in Taiwan and the Philippines have also been reported.
This symposium aims to share the latest intelligence and knowledge of Asian countries on geotechnical natural hazards and to establish a framework for Joint research for future collaboration.
Theme
1. State of the art on evaluation and mitigation of earthquake and heavy rainfall induced damage.
2. Risk management and advance monitoring technology on large landslide and debris flow.
3. Development of design codes and specifications on geotechnical seismic and extreme weather design.
4. Advance in numerical modeling and experimental work in geotechnical structures.
5. Case studies of performance based design of geotechnical structures during natural hazards.
