SOCIEDAD ARGENTINA DE INGENIERIA GEOTÉCNICA
Grupo Argentino de Mecânica de Rocas
Calle 3 No. 687
1900 La Plata
ARGENTINA

Email: secretario@saig.org.ar
Website: http://www.saig.org.ar/
President: Prof. Jorge A. Bonifazi
Secretary: Dr. Emilio R. Redolfi

AUSTRALIAN GEOMECHANICS SOCIETY
PO Box E303
Kingston ACT 2604
AUSTRALIA

Tel: 61 2 6270 6558
Fax: 61 2 6273 2358
E.mail: valerie.lee@ieaust.org.au
Website: http://www.australiangeo
mechanics.org/
President: Prof. Andrew Leventhal
Secretary: Ms Valerie Lee

ÖSTERREICHISCHE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR GEOMECHANIK (ÖGG)
Paracelsusstr. 2
A-5020 Salzburg
AUSTRIA

Tel: 43 662 875519
Fax: 43 662 875519-4
E.mail: salzburg@oegg.at
Website: http://www.oegg.at/
President: Dipl.-Ing. Dr.mont. Georg Michael Vavrovsky
Secretary: Mrs. Barbara Morgner

GROUPEMENT BELGE DE MECANIQUE
DES ROCHES (GBMR)
Faculté Polytechnique de Mons
- Mécaroches Rue du joncquois 53
7000 Mons
BELGIUM

Tel: 32 65 37 45 18/19
Fax: 32 65 37 45 20
E.mail: tshibang@fpms.ac.be
President: Dr. A. Vervoort
Secretary: Dr. J.P. Tshibangu K.

ASSOCIAÇÃO BRASILEIRA DE MECANICA
DOS SOLOS
COMITÊ BRASILEIRO DE MECÂNICA
DAS ROCHAS (ABMS - CBMR)
IPT - Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas
do Estado de S. Paulo
Cidade Universitária Armando de
Salles Oliveira Caixa Postal 0141
Butantã
CEP 05508 - 901 São Paulo SP
BRAZIL

Tel: 55 11 268 7325
Fax: 55 11 268 7325
E.mail: abms@ipt.br
Website: http://www.abms.com.br/
President: Dr. Sérgio A.B. Fontoura
Secretary: Anna Laura L. S. Nunes

CANADIAN ROCK MECHANICS
ASSOCIATION (CARMA)
School of Engineering
Laurentian University
Ramsey Lake Road
Sudbury, Ontario
CANADA P3E 2C6

Tel: 1 705 675 1151 ext. 2253
Fax: 1 705 675 4866
E.mail: mccreath@nickel.laurentian.ca
Website: http://www.cgs.ca/english
/rockmechanics/rmd.html
President: Dr. Hani Mitri
Secretary: Dr. D.R. McCreath

SOCIEDAD CHILENA DE GEOTECNIA
(SOCHIGE)
San Martín 352
Santiago
CHILE

Tel: 562 3816000
Fax: 562 3816001
E.mail: carlos.andrade@geotecnica.cl
President: Mr. Issa Kort
Secretary: Dr. Ramón Verdugo

CHINA

CHINESE SOCIETY FOR ROCK MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING
Attn: Prof. YANG Zhifa
Institute of Geology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
PO Box 9825
Beijing 100029
CHINA

Tel: 86 10 62008072
Fax: 86 10 62040574
E.mail: egml@igcas.igcas.ac.cn
Website: http://www.csrme.com/
President: Prof. Dr. WANG Sijing
Secretary: Prof. YANG Zhifa

SOCIEDAD COLOMBIANA DE GEOTECNIA
Apartado Aereo 057045
Santafé de Bogotá, D.C.
COLOMBIA S.A.

Tel: 57 412 3300 Ext. 465
Fax: 57 424 4592
E.mail: scg1@colomsat.net.co
Website: http://www.scg.org.co/
President: Mr. Adolfo Alarcon Guzman
Secretary: Mr. Jacobo Ojeda Moncayo

CROATIAN SOCIETY FOR ROCK
MECHANICS (CSRM)
Civil Engineering Institute of Croatia
Attn: Prof. Ivan Vrkljan
J. Rakuse 1, P.B.O. 283
41 000 Zagreb
CROATIA

Tel: 385 1 6136 444; 534 103
Fax: 385 1 534 737
E.Mail: ivrkljan@zg.igh.hr
President: Prof. Ivan Vrkljan
Secretary: Mr. Trpimir Kujundzic

OKD, DPB PASKOV a.s.
739 21 Paskov
CZECH REPUBLIC

Tel: 420 69 626 3080, 611 1546
Fax: 420 658 671 588, 671 576
E.mail: gtakla@dpt.cz
President: Dr. Georges Takla
Secretary: Dr Richard Snupárek

DANSK GEOTEKNISK FORENING
Attn: Mr John Frederiksen, Secretary
Maglebjerg vej 1
PO Box 119
DK-2800 Lyngby
DENMARK

Tel: 45 45 88 44 44
Fax: 45 45 88 12 40
Email: dgf@geoteknisk.dk
Website: http://www.danskgeotek
niskforening.dk/
Secretary: Mr John Frederiksen

SUOMEN KALLIOMEKANIIKKATOIMIKUNTA
The Finnish National Group of ISRM
C/o Helsinki University of Technology
Laboratory of Rock Engineering
PO Box 6200
FIN-02015 HUT
FINLAND

Tel: 358 9 451 2809
Fax: 358 9 451 2812
E.mail: Jukka.Pukkila@hut.fi
Website: www.hut.fi/~jantikai/isrm-fin.html
President: Prof. Erik Johansson
Secretary: Dr Jukka Pakkila

FRANCE

COMITÉ FRANÇAIS DE MÉCANIQUE
DES ROCHES
C/o BRGM/CDG/MA
BP 6009
45060 Orleans cedex 2
FRANCE

Tel: 33 2 38 64 38 77
Fax: 33 2 38 64 33 34
E.mail: cfmr@brgm.fr
Website: http://www.geotechnique.org/
President: Prof. Jack-Pierre Piguet
Secretary: Dr. Sylvie Gentier

DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR GEOTECHNIK e.V.
Hohenzollernstrasse 52
D-45128 Essen
GERMANY

Tel: 49 201 782723
Fax: 49 201 782743
E.mail: service@dggt.de
Website: http://www.dggt.de/
President: Prof. Manfred Nussbaumer
Secretary: Dr. Kirsten Laakmann

GHANA

GHANROCK
Geotechnical Eng. Dept.
PO Box 10,
Obuasi
GHANA

E.mail: scgoel@ashanti.net
President: Mr. John Isaac Kwofie
V.-President: Mr. Subhash Chand Goel
Secretary: Mr. Kwasi Yanka

HELLENIC SOCIETY OF SOIL MECHANICS AND FOUNDATION ENGINEERING
42 Patission Str. (Polytechnion)
Athens 106.82
GREECE

Tel: 30 1 772 3434
Fax: 30 1 772 3428
E.mail: sissym@central.ntua.gr
President: Dr. S. Cavounidis
Secretary: Prof. A. Anagnostopoulos

ISRM NATIONAL GROUP OF ICELAND
C/o Björn Stefansson, Secretary
Almenna Consulting Engineers Ltd.
Fellsmula 26
108 Reykjavik
ICELAND

Tel: 354 580 8100
Fax: 354 580 8101
Email: bst@almenna.is
President: Mr. Birgir Jonsson
Secretary: Mr. Björn Stefansson

INDIAN NATIONAL GROUP OF THE ISRM
Central Board of Irrigation and Power
Malcha Marg, Chanakyapuri
New Delhi 110021
INDIA

Tel: 91 11 2611 5984
Fax: 91 11 2611 6347
E.mail: cbip@nda.vsnlnet.in
Website: www.cbip.org/ISRM.htm
President: Dr. A. Varadarajan
Member Secretary: Mr. S.L.Narasimhan
Treasurer: Mr. A.S. Chawla

ISRM NATIONAL GROUP OF IRAN
C/o Dr. Morteza Ahmadi
Dept. of Mining Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Tarbiat Modares University
Tehran
IRAN
PO Box 14115-314

Tel: 98 21 8011001, ext. 3351
Fax: 98 21 8005040
E.mail: moahmadi@modares.ac.ir
Secretary-General: Dr. Morteza Ahmadi

ISRAEL

Israel Rock Mechanics Association (IRMA)
Dept. of Geological and Environmental
Sciences Bem-Gurion University of the
Negev Beer Sheva
84105 ISRAEL

Tel: 972 8 6461288/9
Fax: 972 8 6472997
E.mail: hatzor@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
President: Dr. Yossef Hatzor
Secretary: Mrs. Rivka Heini

ASSOCIAZIONE GEOTECNICA ITALIANA
Piazza Bologna, 22-A9
00162 Roma
ITALY

Tel: 39 06 44249272
Fax: 39 06 44249274
E.mail: agiroma@iol.it
Website: www.associazionegeotecnica.it
/~agi
President: Prof. Giovanni Barla
Secretary: Ing. Claudio Soccodato

JAPANESE ASSOCIATION ON ROCK
MECHANICS
C/o Prof. Yujing Jiang
Nagasaki University
Department of Civil Engineering
Bunkyo Machi 1-14
Nagasaki 852-8521
JAPAN

Tel: 81 95 819 2612
Fax: 81 95 819 2627
E-mail: jiang@civil.nagasaki-u.ac.jp
Website: wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/isrmjp
/index-e.html
President: Dr. Yuzo Ohnishi
Secretary: Prof. Yujing Jiang
E-mail: matsuki@rock.earth.tohoku.ac.jp

KOREAN SOCIETY FOR ROCK MECHANICS
Main 810
Korea Science & Technology Center
635-4 Yeoksam-dong Kangnam-gu
Seoul, 135-703
KOREA

Tel: 82 2 558 1896
Fax: 82 2 558 1897
E.mail: ksrm@nownuri.net
Website: http://www.ksrm.or.kr/
President: Ceo. Sang-Yeul Choi
Secretary: Dr. Seokwon Jeon

SOCIEDAD MEXICANA DE
MECANICA DE ROCAS, A.C.
Attn: Mr. Hector Bonilla Cuevas
Camino a Santa Teresa 187
Col. Bosques del Pedregal
(Atrás Villa Olímpica)
C.P. 14020
Mexico, D.F.
MEXICO

Tel: 52 5 528 2089
Fax: 52 5 601 1065
E.mail: hbonilla@citlali.imt.mx
President: Mr Ismael Sanchez Mora
Secretary: Mr. Hector Bonilla Cuevas

NEPAL GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY
G.P.O.Box 20360
Kathmandu
NEPAL

E.mail: ngsxcom@yahoogroups.com
Treasurer: Dr. T. N. Lohani

NATIONAL GROUP OF THE
NETHERLANDS, ISRM
C/o Delft University of Technology
Dept. of Applied Earth Sciences
Mijnbouwstraat 120
2680px RX Delft
THE NETHERLANDS

Tel: 31 15 2 78 60 24
Fax: 31 15 2 78 48 91
E.mail: j.p.a.roest@ta.tudelft.nl
Secretary: Ir. J.P.A. Roest

NEW ZEALAND GEOTECHNICAL
SOCIETY INC.
C/o Institution of Professional
Engineers
PO Box 12-241
Wellington
NEW ZEALAND

Tel: 64 4 473 9444
Fax: 64 4 473 2324
E.mail: dfellows@xtra.co.nz
Website: http://www.nzgeotechsoc
.org.nz/
President: Mr. John Marsh
Management Secretary: Ms. Debbie L. Fellows

NORSK BERGMEKANIKKGRUPPE
V/ Knut Berg
PO Box 2312
0201 Oslo
NORWAY

Tel: 47 22 94 75 00
Fax: 47 22 94 75 02
E.mail: therese.scheldt@iku.sintef.no
Website: http://www.bergmekanikk.com/
President: Leif Rune Gausereie
Secretary: Ms. Therese Scheldt

ASOCIACION PARAGUAYA DE GEOTECNIA
Attn: Ing. Luis Fernando Amabile
Av. Espana 959
Casilla de Correo 336
Asuncion
PARAGUAY

Tel: 595 21 20 24 24
Fax: 595 21 20 50 19
E.mail: cpi@conexion.com.py
Website: www.orionconsult.com/spg
/html/historia.html
President: Mr. Luis Fernando Amabile
Secretary General: Julio Bareiro Montiel:

POLISH SOCIETY FOR ROCK MECHANICS
ul. Bedzinska 60
41-200 Sosnowiec
POLAND

Tel: 48 32 291 89 01 (9) w. 438, 468
Fax: 48 32 291 58 65
E.mail: zuberek@us.edu.pl
President: Prof. Waclaw M. Zuberek
Secretary: Dr. Bogdan Zogala

SOCIEDADE PORTUGUESA DE
GEOTECNIA (SPG)
Attn. Dr. Luís Ribeiro e Sousa
C/o LNEC
Av. do Brasil, 101
P-1700-066 Lisboa
PORTUGAL

Tel: 21 8443000
Fax: 21 8443021
E.mail: spg@lnec.pt
Website: www.lnec.pt/spg
President: Prof. Luís Ribeiro e Sousa
Secretary: Dr. Fernando Pardo de
Santayana

RUSSIAN GEOMECHANICS ASSOCIATION
Branch Geodynamic Research Centre
Attn: Dr. A. Zamakhaev
C/o "Hydroproject" Institute
2, Volokolamskoe shosse
Moscow 125812
RUSSIA

Tel: 7 095 155 38 40
Fax: 7 095 158 06 79
E.mail: geo.dyn@g23relcom.ru
President: Academician E.I. Shemyakin
Secretary: Dr. V.I. Rechitski

ISRM Singapore National Group
C/o Rock Mechanics Group
Tunnelling and Underground
Construction
Society (Singapore)
425 A Race Course Road
Singapore 218671
SINGAPORE

Tel: 65 790 5268
Fax: 65 792 1680px
E.mail: cjzhao@ntu.edu.sg
Chairperson: Prof. Jian ZHAO

National Group of the Slovak Republic
of the ISRM Faculty of Mining, Ecology,
Process Control and Geotechnologies
Letná 9
04200 Kosice
SLOVAKIA

Tel: + 421 95 6022950
Fax: + 421 95 633 6618
E.mail: maras@tuke.sk
President: Prof. B. Durove
Secretary: Prof. Michal Maras

SLOVENIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY
University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
Jamova 2
1000 Ljubljana
SLOVENIA

tel: 386 61 1768 527
Fax: 386 61 1250 681
E.mail: agaberc@fagg.uni-lj.si
President: Dr. Ana Gaberc
Secretary: Dr. Janko Logar

SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE
OF ROCK ENGINEERING (SANIRE)
P O Box 61809,
Marshalltown,
2107,
Johannesburg,
South Africa.

Tel: + 27 11 498 7605
Fax: + 27 11 498 7383
President: Prof. Matthew Handley
Secretary: Pamela Hadebe
E.mail: info@sanire.co.za
Website: http://www.sanire.co.za/

SOUTHEAST ASIA

SOUTHEAST ASIAN GEOTECHNICAL
SOCIETY (SEAGS)
Attn: Prof. Dennes T. Bergado
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
Km. 42 Paholyothin Highway
PO Box 4
Klong Luang
Pathumthani 12120
THAILAND

Tel: 66 2 5245519
Fax: 66 2 524 5509
E.mail: seags@ait.ac.th
President: Prof. Kwet Yew Yong
Secretary General: Prof. Dennes
T. Bergado

SPAIN

SOCIEDAD ESPAÑOLA DE MECANICA DE LAS ROCAS
C/o Laboratorio de Geotecnia del Cedex
Alfonso XII, 3
E-28014 - Madrid
SPAIN

Tel: + 34 91 3357300
Fax: + 3491 3357322
E.mail: colalla@cedex.es
President: Dr. José M. Sanz Saracho
Secretary: Dr. Claudio Olalla

SWEDEN

SveBeFo SWEDISH ROCK ENGINEERING
RESEARCH
Attn: Mrs. Eva Friedman
Mejerivägen 4
P O Box 47047
S 100 74 Stockholm
SWEDEN

Tel: 46 8 692 2280
Fax: 46 8 651 1364
E.mail: info@svebefo.se, eva.friedman@svebefo.se, tomas.franzen@svebefo.se
Website: http://www.svebefo.se/
Secretary: Dr Tomas Franzén

SWITZERLAND

SWISS SOCIETY FOR SOIL AND ROCK
MECHANICS
Institut für Geotechnik
ETH-Hönggerberg
8093 Zürich
SWITZERLAND

Tel: 41 1 371 66 56
Fax: 41 1 633 10 62
E.mail: caprez@igt.baug.ethz.ch
President: Prof. François Descoeudres
Secretary: Dr. Markus Caprez

TURKEY

TÜRK ULUSAL KAYA MEKANIGI DERNEGI
Maden Mühendisligi Bölümü
Hacettepe Üniversitesi
Beytepe
06532 Ankara
TURKEY

Tel: 90 312 2977696
Fax: 90 312 2992155
E.mail: unver@hacettepe.edu.tr
President: Prof. Dr. H. Aydin Bilgin
Secretary General: Mr. Hasan Sisman

UNITED KINGDOM

BRITISH GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY
Institution of Civil Engineers
1 Great George Street
London SW1P3AA
UNITED KINGDOM

Tel: 44 207 665 22 33
Fax: 44 207 799 1325
E.mail: admin.@geo.org.uk
Website: www.ice.org.uk/navigation
/index_know.asp?page
=../know/assoc_bga.asp
Chairperson: Prof. Barry Clarke
Hon. Tech. Secretary: Mr. Neil A. Smith

UNITED STATES

AMERICAN ROCK MECHANICS
ASSOCIATION (ARMA)
600 Woodland Terrace
Alexandria, VA 22302
USA

Tel: 1 703 683 1808
Fax: 1 703 683 1815
E.mail: smeallie@armarocks.org
Website: http://www.armarocks.org/
President: Prof. François Heuzé
Secretary: Dr. Peter Smeallie

SOCIEDAD VENEZOLANA DE GEOTECNIA
Colegio de Ingenieros de Venezuela, Piso 3
Avenida Principal Parque Los Caobos
Apartado 4074
Caracas 1010
VENEZUELA

Tel: 58 2 571 38 24
Fax: 58 2 953 47 94
E.mail: soc.vzlanadegeotecnia@usa.net
Web site: http://www.svdg.org.ve/
President: Mrs Isaura Romero Requena
Secretary: Igor Pankovs K.

VIETNAMESE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
ROCK MECHANICS
Attn: Prof. Marshall Silver
74 Bui Thi Xuan Street
Hai Ba Trung District
Hanoi
VIETNAM

Tel: 84 4 943 5170
Fax: 84 4 943 5171
Mobile: 84 90 340 7474
E.mail: msilver@hn.vnn.vn
President: Mr. Nguyen Duc Phan
Secretary-General: Dr. Nghiem Huu
Hanh
Honorary Secretary: Prof. Marshall L. Silver

ZAMBIA ROCK MECHANICS SOCIETY (ZARMS)
PO Box 90840
Luanshya
ZAMBIA

Tel/Fax: 260 (02) 51 21 22
E.mail: wclaeys@mopani.com.zm
Chairperson: W.D. Claeys
V.-Chairperson: Dr. G. Kayesa
Secretary/Treasurer: Dr. C. Mikandawire