Dear colleagues: On behalf of the Chilean Geotechnical Society (SOCHIGE), you are cordially invited to participate in the 17th Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (XVII PCSMGE) and 2nd Latin-American Regional Conference of the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG) to be held in Chile in November 2024. We are delighted to organize this event, for the second time, after hosting it back in 1991. With an average width of 180 kilometers and a length of about 5000 kilometers, Chile is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and the majestic Andes Mountains to the east. These characteristics result in a country with a wide variety of climates and vegetation, as well as both soil and rock conditions along its territory. As part of the Circum-Pacific Belt, Chile is one of the great seismically active regions in the world, which is of particular interest to geoscientists and geotechnical engineers worldwide. The Panamerican congress will serve as a unique platform for dissemination of knowledge and fruitful interactions among researchers and practitioners from different generations and nationalities. We are excited to keep growing as a community and your attendance is essential to the success of this conference. We look forward to receiving you in our country!
• Tuesday 12th: Workshops / Short courses / Registration / Opening
• Wednesday 13th – Friday 14th: Conference
• Saturday 15th – Sunday 16th: Technical visits / Side Activities
• Deadline for abstract submission: June 2023
• Notification of abstract acceptance: July 2023
• Draft paper submission deadline: November 2023
• Notification of paper acceptance: January 2024
• Final paper due: April 202
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
Edgar Bard (Chile)
Carlos Ovalle (Chile/Canada)
Lab and in situ testing
Physical and constitutive soil modelling
Unsaturated soils
Soft soils
Residual and saprolitic soils
Rockfill
Soil geochemistry
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
José Campaña (Chile)
Juan Manuel Pestana (Venezuela/USA)
Numerical modelling
Seismic analisis of natural soil deposits and geotechnical structures
Mining structures
Tailings dams
Infrastructure and transport works
Foundations of buildings and large works
Monitoring and observational method
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
Juan Manuel Fernandez (Chile)
Walter Paniagua (México)
Mario Terceros (Bolivia)
Soil improvement
Use of geosynthetics
Special foundations
Rehabilitation of geotechnical structures
Advances in instrumentation and sensing systems
New images technologies in geotechnics
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
Sergio Sepúlveda (Chile)
Victor Hernández-Madrigal (Mexico)
Stella Moreiras (Argentina)
Engineering Geology
Environmental Geology and Geotechnics
Applied Hydrogeology and waterr resources
Rock Mechanics and applications
Geohazards remote sensing and monitoring
Geologic hazard and risk assessment, and territorial Planning
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
Cesar Pasten (Chile)
Douglas Cortés (USA)
Energy geotechnics
Geotechnical uncertainty
Biogeotechnics
Machine learning and big data in geotechnics
Sustainability and climate change
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
Matías Silva (Chile)
Pooneh Maghoul (Canadá)
Cristina de Hollanda Cavalcanti Tsuha (Brazil)
Geotechnical engineering and sustainable development
Education of Earth Sciences and Geotechnical Engineering
Academy and practice in Geotechnical Engineering. How to diminish the gap
Geotechnical works and their impact on communities
“More information on Partner and Exhibition opportunities will be available soon”
Images and videos Sernatur Chile bank.
Peñuelas Norte 56, Coquimbo, Región de Coquimbo, Chile