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The Rankine Lecture
Widely viewed as the most prestigious of the invited lectures in geotechnics and was first held in 1961.
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The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is the principal association for geotechnical engineers in the UK.
The ISSMGE Time Capsule Project (TCP) has the following aims:
Although William John Macquorn Rankine, Professor at University of Glasgow, had published his theory on earth pressures in 1857, modern soil mechanics is recognised to have been established in the United Kingdom at the Building Research Station (BRS) from 1929. The first geotechnical laboratory at BRS was established in 1934 by Leonard Cooling and the group was later joined by Alec Skempton and Hugh Golder.
At the Building Research Station in 1937/8 with Cooling, Golder and Skempton (Courtesy Christine Cooling)
The British National Committee of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (ISSMFE) was formed in 1947. It became the British Geotechnical Society (BGS) in 1961 and changed its name to the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) in 2000.
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History of the British Geotechnical Association
Widely viewed as the most prestigious of the invited lectures in geotechnics and was first held in 1961.
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