Every four years the field monitoring community gathers for an international symposium on field monitoring in geomechanics. The first symposium was held in 1983 and the most recent was in September 2022. These symposia deal with the use of instrumentation by civil engineers, geotechnical engineers, mining engineers, engineering geologists and geophysicists to measure the in-situ properties of soils and rocks and to monitor the performance of geo-engineered structures by taking measurements. The applications include dams, foundations, tunnels and other underground openings, embankments, natural slopes, land reclamation, mining facilities, repositories for industrial or nuclear waste, offshore structures and field testing to determine soil and rock properties.
On this page you will find details of past and future Symposia
Previous Symposia
1st 1983: Zurich, Switzerland
2nd 1987: Kobe, Japan
3rd 1991: Oslo, Norway
4th 1995: Bergamo, Italy
5th 1999: Singapore
6th 2003: Oslo, Norway
7th 2007: Boston, USA
8th 2011: Berlin, Germany
9th 2015: Sydney, Australia
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10th 2018: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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11th 2022: London, UK