Ms Liisa Larkela, Senior Lecturer, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Turku, Finska, delivers lecture Geotechnical conditions in Finland at the Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Department of Civil Engineering, Tuesday, 08.05.2018. at 18:15 in lecture room P2 (from the entrance left, middle doors), address Avenija V. Holjevca 15, Zagreb).
Geotechnical conditions in Finland
Professor Norikazu Shimizu on 19.05.2018. in Zagreb on the biggest landslide in Zagreb and settlement in Tuzli
Professor Norikazu Shimizu, (CV >>>), President of the International Society of Rock Mechanics (ISRM) and distinguished scientist at the Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan, awarded by the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (>>>) has developed methodology for following the ground surface using satelites. He will present the application of this methodology to the biggest landslide in Zagreb and settlements of Tuzla, in the lecture organized by the Croatian Geotechnical Society and Croatian Geological Survey (>>>), on Sathurday, 19.05.2018. from 10:00 to 11, in the Croatian Geological Survey, Sachsova 2, Zagreb (>>>). After the lecture Professor Shimizu will be open to discussion.
Title of the lecture and short abstract:
Practical applications of displacement monitoring using satellite technology to landslides, land subsidence, and dam deformation – including case studies in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina Continue reading….
About the construction of the new dam on Nile Bojan Vukadinović and Bruno Škacan
03.05. at 17:15, at Avenija Većeslava Holjevca 15, 10010 Zagreb.
Seizmic standards and civil engineering administration in Japan
Lecture Seizmic standards and civil engineering administration in Japan will be given by
Mr. Kazuhiro Hashimoto, president of the Japanese agency The Building Center of Japan, and
Mr. Toshiyuki Inoue, president of the organization Center for Better Living.
Lecture is organized by the Embassy of Japan in Croatia as one in the series of events in celebration of 25 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and Croatia.
Lecture will be given Wednesday, 2.May 2018. from 11:00 to 12:30 at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb, Kačićeva 26.
25.04.2018. webinar Success Factors for University-Industry Partnerships
Profesor Erich Bauer, Institute of Applied Mechanics, Graz University of Technology, is giving lecture A Concept for Modelling of Coarse-grained and Weathered Granular Materials 23.04.2018. in Varaždinu
Time: 13:00 sati
Venue: Geotechnical Faculty of the University of Zagreb, Varaždin, Hallerova aleja 7
Professor Bauer CV >>>
Lecture Abstract >>>
On the reconstruction of a failed embankment its designer, Ms Silvija Puljak 19.04.2018. at 17
(Croatian) O geofizičkim ispitivanjima Ivan Pišonić 5.3.2018. u 17
(Croatian) O klizištu u Hrvatskoj Kostajnici i sličnima, prof.dr.sc. Želimir Ortolan 22.3.2018. u 17
UCLA Symposium in Honour of Professor Mladen Vucetic
Professor Mladen Vucetic, who started his studies, and his life, in Zagreb, after 30 years of research and teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is retiring from University, and this year’s GeoExpo hosted jointly by the UCLA CalGeo student chapter at UCLA and UCLA, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department is a special event in honor of Professor Mladen Vucetic. The program includes a distinguished lineup of speakers in soil dynamics and earthquake engineering, all of whom are connected to Professor Vucetic as former students, mentors, or collaborators: Professor Ricardo Dobry, Professor Kennet H. Stokoe, Professor Mark Tufenkjian, Professor Giuseppe Lanzo, and dr. Neven Matasovic. More on the symposium >>>