International conference Reinforced Retaining Walls – Basics of Design, Use and Future Development, Prague 2010
A congress of leading domestic and international experts in the geotechnical discipline took place at the Congress Centre of CTU Masaryk College in Prague on Wednesday, 8 December 2010.
It was particularly attended by representatives of design, execution, investment and commercial companies and other experts and scientists. The conference was organised by KB-BLOK systém, s.r.o., together with other partners under the auspices of the Czech Technical University in Prague, whose Vice Rector Doc. Ing. Josef Jettmar, CSc., welcomed the participants and kicked off the meeting agenda with an opening speech.
The meeting agenda primarily focused on principles of action of reinforced retaining wall structures, methods of design and assessment, construction technology and structural capacities of reinforced retaining walls. The opening speeches included Prof. Dov Leshchinsky of the University of Delaware, USA, and Prof. Ing. Ivan Vaníček, DrSc., of CTU in Prague. Both principal speakers gave a highly detailed and comprehensible explanation of principles of action and methods of design and numerical analysis of reinforced retaining wall structures. Among other things, the conference featured a demonstration of the KB-BLOK systém, s.r.o. reinforced retaining wall system, its technical properties, parameters, structural capacities and the MSEW 3.0 computing software. The methodology for testing properties of reinforced retaining wall construction systems was demonstrated by Doc. Ing. Jiří Kolísko, Ph.D, of the Klokner Institute of CTU in Prague, which has regularly performed such tests for many years.
The professional public showed extraordinary interest in the conference. Looking back, the participants evaluated the event as very successful, with an interesting topic and beneficial for future practice. There is a chance of a similar periodically recurring event.
The syllabus of lectures and principal speakers is available for download here.
