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Cancun Mx.
November 17th - 20th 2019
TECHNICAL PROGRAM
XVI PANAMERICAN CONFERENCE
ON SOIL MECHANICS AND
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
International Society for Soil Mechanics 
and Geotechnical Engineering
Sociedad Mexicana de Ingeniería Geotécnica
Mexican Society of Geotechnical Engineering
Venue 
Hotel IBEROSTAR, Cancun Mx 
PROGRAM CONTENT TABS
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THE VOLUMES OF THE XVI PCSMGE
Schedule-at-a-Glance
Pre-Conference Courses
The 9th Arthur Casagrande Lecture
Plenary Lectures
CAPG Session
History and Future of industry/academia partnership Session
Bright Spark Lectures
Women in geotechnical engineering
Technical Sessions
TC Workshops
Poster exhibition and presentation
Sponsors and Exhibitors
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Panamerican 2019
Cancún Mx.
On behalf of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geo-
technical Engineering, as well as the Mexican Society of Geotechni-
cal Engineering, it is our great pleasure to welcome you to the XVI 
Panamerican Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engi-
neering. As background, the first Pan-American Conference on Soil 
Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering was held in Mexico City 
in 1959, and on November 2019 it will return to our country, with 
the Mexican Caribbean as its scenario. Indeed, Cancun is recognized 
worldwide for its natural beauty, first class tourist infrastructure and 
important and attractive archaeological sites.
We are pleased to have accepted 335 technical papers related to 
geotechnical engineering and geoenvironment, included in the Pro-
ceedings Volume Geotechnical Engineering in the XXI Century: les-
sons learned and future challenges. Our gratitude to the authors who 
submitted papers, session chairs and invited reviewers for sharing 
their time, knowledge and expertise to enhance the quality of the 
contributions. We also appreciate the invited speakers who made 
possible the special Volume From Research to Applied Geotechnics, 
which include special and keynote lectures. 
XVI PCSMGE´s technical program will feature the 9th Arthur Casa-
grande Lecture, delivered by Gabriel Auvinet Guichard, ISSMGE 
President Lecture delivered by Charles Ng, preconference courses, 
nineteen concurrent technical and special sessions, poster exhibition, 
technical committees workshops and two technical plenary sessions. 
Attendees will also have the opportunity to learn more about the 
Mayan culture, in the special lecture delivered by archeologist Tomás 
Pérez Suárez.
Attendees are welcome in the commercial exhibits space throughout 
the three days of the Conference, for information and networking.
Thank you for joining us at the XVI PCSMGE 2019, in Cancun, Mexico. 
Welcome to XVI PANAMERICAN CONFERENCE ON SOIL 
MECHANICS AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chair
Walter I. Paniagua Zavala
Secretary
Juan Paulín Aguirre
Treasurer
Juan de Dios Alemán Velásquez
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
Chair
Alexandra Ossa López
Committee
Carlos Roberto Torres Álvarez
Enrique Ibarra Razo
Félix Octavio Segura Meneses
José Luis Rangel Núñez
Juan Félix Rodríguez
Natalia del Pilar Parra Piedrahita
Marcela González Blandón
Miguel Ángel Figueras Corte
Moisés Juárez Camarena
Ricardo Ortiz Hermosillo
Rigoberto Rivera Constantino
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Chair
Norma Patricia López Acosta 
Committee
Eduardo Martínez Hernández 
 Alejandra L. Espinosa Santiago
PUBLIC RELATIONS AND 
SPONSORSHIP COMMITTEE
Gabriel Martínez
Raúl López Roldán
LOCAL COMMITTEE (CANCUN)
Rodolfo Ramírez
Zenón Medina Pacheco 
LOCAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Gabriel Auvinet Guichard
Gabriel Moreno Pecero
Guillermo Springall Caram
Walter I. Paniagua
Chair
Organizing Committee
Juan Paulín
Secretary
Organizing Committee
Juan de Dios Alemán
Treasurer
Organizing Committee
Alexandra Ossa
Chair 
Technical Committee
Norma Patricia 
López Acosta
Chair 
Editorial Committee
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Isla 6Miramar 4Isla 5Miramar 3Miramar 2Isla 4Isla 3Isla 2Miramar 1Hour
8:30 - 9:00
9:00 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:30
14:30 - 16:30
16:30 - 17:00
17:00 - 18:30
(Caribe)
Coffee Break (Foyer Miramar)
Coffee Networking
Lunch
Coffee Break (Foyer Miramar)
PC1
Anchors design, 
construction 
and testing
PC1
Anchors design, 
construction 
and testing
PC1
Anchors design, 
construction 
and testing
PC1
Anchors design, 
construction 
and testing
PC3
Energy geotechnics: 
from fundamentals 
to practice
PC4
Flexible pavement 
design, mechanistic 
empirical approach
PC6
Micropiles design 
and construction
PC7
New seismic design 
criteria for foundations and 
embankments in Mexico
PC8
Numerical 
modeling
 in geotechnics
PC9
Risk analysis 
and reliability
in geotechnics
PC10
Rock
excavations
PC11
Soil stabilization
 with lime
PC3
Energy geotechnics: 
from fundamentals 
to practice
PC4
Flexible pavement 
design, mechanistic 
empirical approach
PC6
Micropiles design 
and construction
PC7
New seismic design 
criteria for foundations and 
embankments in Mexico
PC8
Numerical 
modeling
 in geotechnics
PC9
Risk analysis 
and reliability
in geotechnics
PC10
Rock
excavations
PC11
Soil stabilization
 with lime
PC3
Energy geotechnics: 
from fundamentals 
to practice
PC4
Flexible pavement 
design, mechanistic 
empirical approach
PC6
Micropiles design 
and construction
PC7
New seismic design 
criteria for foundations and 
embankments in Mexico
PC8
Numerical 
modeling
 in geotechnics
PC9
Risk analysis 
and reliability
in geotechnics
PC10
Rock
excavations
PC11
Soil stabilization
 with lime
PC3
Energy geotechnics: 
from fundamentals 
to practice
PC4
Flexible pavement 
design, mechanistic 
empirical approach
PC6
Micropiles design 
and construction
PC7
New seismic design 
criteria for foundations and 
embankments in Mexico
PC8
Numerical 
modeling
 in geotechnics
PC9
Risk analysis 
and reliability
in geotechnics
PC10
Rock
excavations
PC11
Soil stabilization
 with lime
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13:00 - 19:00
17:00 - 18:30
19:00 - 21:00
Early registration
Welcome Cocktail (Caribe)
Panamerican Council Meeting (Bahía)
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G3 Presentation of the Book: Control, tratamiento y mejoramiento de suelos (Miramar 3 & 4)
Poster Exhibition
Block 1
Poster presentations 
Block 1
Poster exhibition 
Block 1
Coffee Break (Exhibition)
Coffee Break (Exhibition)
Plenary Lecture ISSMGE President
Interplay between ecology and unsaturated soil
Charles Ng
Lunch
SE1 - Young 
geotechnical
engineers 
session:
Bright Spark 
Conferences
session 1
Laboratory 
and in situ 
testing
session 2
Analytical
 and Physical 
modelling 
in geotechnics
session 3
Numerical 
modelling in 
geotechnics
session 4
Unsaturated 
soils
session 5
Soft Soils
session 6
Foundations 
and retaining 
structures
session 1
Laboratory 
and in situ 
testing
session 2
Analytical
 and Physical 
modelling 
in geotechnics
session 3
Numerical 
modelling in 
geotechnics
session 4
Unsaturated 
soils
session 4
Unsaturated 
soils
session 5
Soft Soils
session 6
Foundations 
and retaining 
structures
session 1
Laboratory 
and in situ 
testing
session 3
Numerical 
modelling in 
geotechnics
session 6
Foundations 
and retaining 
structures
Foyer CaribeBahíaArenaCoralMiramar 3 & 4Miramar 2Miramar 1Isla 5 & 6Isla 3 &Soil Response and Code Lessons. 
Guillermo. 
Diaz-Fanas, Sissy Nikolaou, Olga Ktenidou, Eva Garini, George Gazetas, Xin Ma. 
15 min
Determinación de perfiles de velocidad de ondas de corte a partir de regis-
tros acelerográficos. (Caso de estudio Mexico 2017-09-19). 
Jorge Alberto Rodriguez, Jaime G. Azuaje A. 15 min
Respuesta sísmica de arcillas de alta plasticidad durante eventos extremos. 
Juan Manuel Mayoral, Simón Tepalcapa, Ernesto Castañón. 15 min
Generación del ambiente sísmico para la zona centro de la ciudad de Gua-
dalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. 
Miguel Ángel Díaz Guzmán, Luis Osorio Flores, Eduardo Botero Jaramillo, Efraín 
Ovando Shelley. 15 min
Explicación de porqué los depósitos de grava en la ciudad de Lima, Perú 
presentan amplificaciones importantes en periodos largos y su implicancia 
en la Norma Técnica Peruana Sismorresistente. 
Selene Quispe, Zenón Aguilar, Fernando Lázares. 15 min 
Questions. 15 min
Análisis probabilista del peligro de licuación revisitado. 
Mario Ordaz. 15 min
Efecto De La Magnitud Del Sismo En La Ocurrencia De Licuefacción. 
Ramón Verdugo, Javiera Gonzalez. 15 min
Influencia del parámetro Vs en la respuesta de sitio de un depósito 
granular caracterizado a partir de pruebas Cross Hole y de correlaciones 
empíricas. 
Luis Osorio Flores, María Clara Madrigal Madrigal, César Rosales Morán, Eduardo 
Botero Jaramillo, Efraín Ovando Shelley. 15 min
Análisis unidimensional de la respuesta sísmica local de suelos blandos en 
la ciudad de Huaraz. 
Reynaldo Reyes. 15 min
Questions. 15 min
16:45:18:15
Room Isla 5 & 6
Wednesday 20th
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14:45-16:15
16:45-18:15
Comportamiento Mecánico de Suelos Sulfatados Estabilizados con Cenizas 
de Cáscara de Arroz y Cal Bajo Diferentes Temperaturas de Curado. 
Fernando Mencia, Enrique Agüero, Rubén A. López, Eduardo Bittar, R. Alejandro 
Quiñonez. 20 min
Variación de las propiedades fisicoquímicas de los suelos del depósito 
lacustre de la Ciudad de Tunja, Zona Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica 
de Colombia . 
Diana Paola Velandia Rativa , Lesly Natalihe Lopez Valiente. 20 min
Estabilización Química de Suelos del Ex Lago de Texcoco y su Uso como 
Relleno. 
Mario E. Amaya, Eduardo Botero y Efraín Ovando. 20 min
Use of lignin as stabilizer in expansive soils. 
Orlandi, Sandra Graciela, Manzanal, Diego Guillermo Miranda, Ezequiel Sebastián 
Robinson, Marco Antonio. 20 min
Questions. 10 min
Mejoramiento de suelos residuales mediante el uso de Electro osmosis. 
Manuel Builes, Mario León Hincapié, Jorge Arboleda. 20 min
Design and Performance of a Test Embankment on Very Soft Mexico Clay 
Deposit Improved by Vacuum and Surcharge Preloading with PVD’s. 
Vito Nicola Ghionna, Luiz Guilherme De Mello, Valeriano Pastore. 20 min
Mejoramiento de suelos por medio del sistema de aceleración de la consol-
idación por vacío con membrana (Menard Vacuum), en el marco del NAIM. 
Luis D. Juárez, Alfredo Cirión. 20 min
Session 13 Ground Improvement • Room Miramar 1
10:15-11:45
Keynote Lecture: Past, Present, and Future of Ground 
Improvement in the Americas.
Vernon R. Schaefer. 30 min
Jet Grouting for Mitigating Impact of Secant Pile Wall Installation in Close 
Proximity to Existing Building . 
Chu Ho, Aaron Evans. 15 min
Cimentaciones de aerogeneradores reforzados con columnas de grava y 
su impacto en el sismo de septiembre de 2017 en Oaxaca-Mexico. 
Rafael Tafur Córdova, Daniel Martínez Oviedo y Enmanuel Carvajal Diaz. 15 min
Aplicación de Columnas de Módulo Controlado como Cimentación para 
Tanques en Zonas Sísmicas. 
Alfredo Cirión Arana, Rémi Chatte. 15 min
Questions. 15 min
Wednesday 20th
Cochairs: Eduardo Villa Corta Lucchesi (Peru), Hubert Guimont (Canada), Rémi Chatte (Mexico), Vernon 
R. Schaefer (USA)
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16:45-18:15 Numerical modeling and performance of two test embankments based 
on surcharge preloading, PVDs and vacuum: drain-to-drain and airtight 
membrane. 
Norma Patricia López Acosta, Alejandra Liliana Espinosa, Víctor Manuel Pineda. 
20 min
Questions. 10 min
14:45-16:15 Cd adsorption by chemically activated tropical peat. 
Jacqueline Zanin Lima, Isabela Monici Raimondi; Valéria Guimarães Silvestre 
Rodrigues. 15 min
On the contribution of physicochemical processes for the retention of 
heavy metals within environmental barriers. 
Franco M. Francisca, Daniel A. Glatstein. 15 min
La Tecnología de Captura, Uso y Almacenamiento Geológico de CO2 en 
Mexico. 
Moisés Dávila Serrano. 17 min
Influence of Water Treatment Sludge Addition on the Compressibility and 
Shear Strength Parameters of Two Lateritic Soils. 
Edy Lenin Tejeda Montalvan, Kemmylle Sanny de Matos Ferreira; Rafaela Vilela 
Spartani de Godoy; Maria Eugênia Gimenez Boscov. 15 min
La geotecnia ambiental como base estratégica del desarrollo de estudios 
de caracterización y remediación de suelos contaminados por hidrocar-
buros. 
José de Jesús Torres-García, María de la Luz Pérez-Rea, Eduardo Rojas González 
y Christian Eduardo Hernández Mendoza. 15 min
Questions. 15 min
Session 14 Sustainability and geoenvironment • Room Isla 3 & 4
10:15-11:45
Keynote Lecture: Geotechnical 
Engineering Innovation to Advance 
CCUS-From Smart Rocks to the 
Aquistore Project. 
Richard Chalaturnyk and Gonzalo
Zambrano. 40 min
Contribution to assess the seismic safety of slopes in Quito. 
Holger Pankrath, Marco Castro D, Ximena Hidalgo B., Eliana Jiménez A. 17 min
The effect of pore fluid chemistry on the behavior of xanthan gum-trea-
ted kaolinite. 
Yeong-Man Kwon, Ilhan Chang, Gye-Chun Cho. 17 min
Questions. 16 min
Wednesday 20th
Cochairs: Elizabeth Burton (USA), Gonzalo Zambrano Narváez (Canada), Moisés Dávila (Mexico)
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14:45-16:15 Enrique Santoyo Villa and his contributions to the preservation of monu-
ments. 
Efraín Ovando Shelley. 40 min
Medición y control de los efectos del tuneleo mecanizado sobre los tem-
plos históricos de San José y en la Catedral de Guadalajara. 
Andrés Moreno y Fernández. 20 min
Comportamiento del Antiguo Templo de San Agustín y de la Capilla de la 
Tercera Orden, en diciembre de 2017. 
Julio Hernández, Carlos Sánchez y Efraín Ovando. 15 min
Evaluación de la interacción dinámica suelo-túnel-estructura de la Línea 3 
del Tren Eléctrico urbano y la Catedral de Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. 
Luis Osorio Flores, Miguel Ángel Díaz Guzmán, Efraín Ovando Shelley, Eduardo 
Botero Jaramillo. 15 min
Session 15 Preservation of historic sites • Room Arena
Session 16 Forensics engineering • Room Isla 1 & 2
10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
Keynote Lecture: Examples of the key role of geotechni-
cal engineering in the preservation of ancient towers. 
Alessandro Flora. 60 min
Keynote Lecture: Forensic Geotechnical Engineering. 
Some Cases in Mexico City. 
Luis Bernardo Rodríguez. 40 min
Futuro de las Técnicas No Destructivas para Conservación y Catalogación 
del Patrimonio Histórico. 
Ignacio Lydio Carazo Carazo, Jose Luis Gallegos Márquez, Marcela Dávalos 
Romero, Daniel Martín Sánchez, Francisco Martinez Usero. 15 min
The Fractal and Non-Fractal Design of the Retaining Walls built by Incas at 
Machu Picchu, Pisac and Moray in Peru. 
Luis E. Vallejo, Nicolas Estrada. 15 min
Ingeniería Forense en suelos no saturados. 
Angel Trejo Moedano. 17 min
Opening. 5 min
Tuesday 19th
Wednesday 20th
Cochairs: Damien Tamagnan (Mexico), Efraín Ovando Shelley (Mexico)
Cochairs: Edgar E. Rodríguez Granados (Colombia), L. Bernardo Rodríguez (Mexico), Paul W. Mayne 
(USA)
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14:45-16:15 Correlations between various rock mass classification systems, including 
Laubscher (MRMR), Bieniawski (RMR), Barton (Q) and Hoek and Marinos 
(GSI) systems. 
Andrea Russo, Esteban Hormazabal. 15 min
Session 17 Rock mechanics • Room Isla 5 & 6
10:15-11:45
Keynote Lecture: Analytical and numerical study of the 
stability of shallow circular cavities in weak rocks. 
Carlos Carranza-Torres.30 min
Excavaciones para el vertedero y cuenco de aquietamiento del Proyecto 
Hidroeléctrico Ituango, Colombia. 
Natalia Giraldo Beltrán, Juan David Herrera Caicedo, Maria Cecilia Sierra Bonilla. 
15 min
Aplicación de barreras dinámicas sobre un talud minero. 
Melissa Miuzzi, Oscar Escamilla Cayetano. 15 min
Dimensionamiento de pilares de alta resistencia en una mina subterránea 
mediante métodos numéricos. 
Maria Isabel Martínez López, Christ Jesus Barriga Paria, Gian Napara Garcia, 
Raquel Quadros Velloso, Romero César Gomes. 15 min
Questions. 15 min
Wednesday 20th
Cochairs: Carlos Carranza Torres (USA), Sergio Fontoura (Brazil), Valentin Castellanos Pedroza (Mexico)
Subexcavación y renivelación de un edificio de oficinas en la zona norte 
del Valle de Mexico. 
René Contreras Galván, Julio César Hernández Chiñas, Mario Trigo Lara. 17 min 
Questions. 10 min
14:45-16:15
10:15-11:45
Keynote Lecture: Recent failures of engineering projects 
in Colombia - critical reflexion. 
Edgar Eduardo Rodríguez Granados. 40 min
Problemas Geotécnicos en la Construcción de una Obra Subterránea en 
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. 
Enrique Padilla Corona. 17 min
Applicability of forensic analysis techniques on the improvement of early 
warning landslides systems and components. 
Lincar Pedroni, Unni Eidsvig, Jose Mauricio Cepeda.17 min 
Questions. 10 min
Opening. 5 min
Wednesday 20th
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Session 18 Education • Room Miramar 3 & 4
10:15-11:45
Keynote Lecture: Advances in the teaching of Geotechni-
cal Engineering in Peru. 
Jorge Alva. 30 min
Geotechnical Engineering Education (Focussed on Geotechnical structure 
design and performance). 
Ivan Vanicek. 17 min
Aprendizaje Activo en Geotécnica: Experiencias y Desafíos. 
Marcos Musso, Leonardo Behak. 17 min
La Maestría y Doctorado en Ingeniería (Geotecnia), UNAM, a 25 años de 
un Programa de Posgrado Unificado. 
Rigoberto Rivera Constantino. 17 min
Questions. 9 min
Wednesday 20th
Cochairs: Emir José Macari (USA), Jorge E. Alva Hurtado (Peru), Miguel Ángel Figueras (Mexico),
Rigoberto Rivera Constantino (Mexico)
Characterization of rock masses by three-dimensional image processing 
technique. 
Rodrigo Hernández, Jorge Peñuela, Gloria Beltrán. 15 min
Caracterización Geomecánica del sitio de una presa en Mexico. 
Natalia del Pilar Parra Piedrahita, Héctor Noé Caballero-Ramos, Jorge 
López-Molina, José Ibarra-Quintero, Valentín Castellanos-Pedroza. 15 min
Caracterización geomecánica y tratamientos de sostenimiento primario 
en las galerías del bitúnel del Tren Interurbano Mexico – Toluca . 
Julio César Chable Moreno, Ulises Talonia Vargas, Jorge Antonio López Molina. 
15 min
Correlación de resultados de ensayos presiométricos frente a resultados 
de compresión uniaxial en materiales de la zona conurbada de Monterrey 
(Mexico). 
Daniel Martín, Rolando Díaz, Daniel Tranquilino. 15 min
Questions. 15 min
14:45-16:15
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Session 19 Energy Geotechnics • Room Coral
10:15-11:45
Keynote Lecture: Energy Geostructures - A New Era for 
Geotechnical Engineering Practice. 
Lyesse Laloui. 40 min
Opening remarks 
Marcelo Sanchez. 5 min
Micromechanics of dense-phase sand-fluid flow and transport in fractures. 
Ingrid Tomac. 20 min
Energy Geotechnics for Remote Canadian Arctic Applications. 
Greg Siemens. 20 min 
Short panel discussion with the speakers. 5 min
Tuesday 19th
Cochairs: Marcelo Sánchez (USA), Norma Patricia López Acosta (Mexico)
S19 - TC 308 Energy Geotechnics Workshop
Room Coral
Tuesday, November 19th
TC 308 Meeting • Room Bahía
Tuesday, November 19th
13:15 - 14:45
14:45-16:15
The aimf of TC 308 is to disseminate knowledge and practice in the area of soil mechanics and ge-
otechnical engineering associated with Energy Geotechnics including as examples, thermal/cooling 
effects on soil and rock behavior; effect of high-pressure cycles in soils; hydraulic fracturing, coupled 
Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical and Chemical processes in soils and rocks.
Cochairs
Marcelo Sánchez and Norma Patricia López Acosta
Impacts of hydrate on core-scale permeability in sediments. 
Sheng Dai. 20 min
Assessment of Intrinsic Permeability Variation and Soil Fabric Changes 
with Temperature Through Temperature Controlled Tests. 
Omid Ghasemi Fare. 20 min
Numerical Modelling of Water/CO2 Injection in Deformable Reservoirs 
with the Possibility of Fault Reactivation. 
Leonardo Guimarães. 20 min
Thermo-mechanics of soils: historical advances and current challenges. 
Alessandro Rotta Loria. 20 min
Mechanical stability of cemented porous heat storage media. 
Henok Hailemariam. 10 min
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16:45-18:15 Estimate of Heat Generation Rates in MSW Landfills Based on In-situ 
Temperature Monitoring. 
John S. McCartney. 20 min
Utilising soldier pile retaining walls as energy geo-structures. 
Guillermo Andres Narsillo. 20 min.
Wellbore cement integrity in the context of CO2 geological storage. 
Jean-Michel Pereira. 20 min
CO2 geological storage: Performance of Cement-Rock interface. 
Diego Manzanal. 10 min
A constitutive model for gas hydrate bearing sediments incorporating the 
effect of hydrate saturation and temperature. 
Marcelo Sánchez. 10 min
Thermal properties of Mexico Basin soils. 
Norma Patricia López Acosta. 10 min
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TC 211 Ground Improvement Workshop • Room Bahía
Monday, November 18th
15:00-16:30
ISSMGE TC 211 aims to foster an international technology transfer and know-how exchange that will 
effectively contribute to advancing the state of engineering and construction practice and accelerate 
reliable use of innovative ground improvement geosystems for a variety of engineering applications. 
To achieve this goal specifically, in the areas of ground improvement, reinforcement and grouting, 
effective interaction between government, industry and academia must be established. TC 211 in its 
present profile represents all the different ingredients of the ground improvement community.
Cochairs
Jérôme Racinais and Prof. Vernon Schaefer
Opening 
Jerome Racinais and Prof. Vernon (TC 211 chair). 5 min 
Quality Control of Vibro-compacted Carbonate Sands by means of CPT. 
Patrick Mengé (DEME). 15 min
Wind Turbine Tower Foundations Ground Improvement using Rammed 
Aggregate Piers. 
Juan Pablo Rodríguez (Geopier Foundation Company). 15 min
State of the Art of QA/QC for Deep Mixing applications. 
Michel Coudry (Soletanche Bachy). 15 min
Deep ground improvement by Controlled Modulus Columns (CMC) and 
Prefabricated Vertical Drains (PVD) for the future Fuel Terminal in Tuxpan, 
Veracruz. 
Rémi Chatte (Menard Mexico). 15 min
State of Practice of Vibro Compaction in Asia. 
Leong Kam Weng (Keller). 15 min
Questions. 10 min
TC 201 Dykes and Levees Workshop • Room Coral
Wednesday, November 20th
10:15-11:45
The aim of TC 201 is promote the discussion on the state of the art and developing the science and 
engineering in order to increase fundamental understanding and modelling of strength, deformation 
and erosion behavior of soils and failure processes of water retaining structures like dikes, dunes, 
(underwater) dams. The gained fundamental understanding is essential for designing and building 
dikes that can easily be adapted to new insights on design loads and strength. Especially or urban 
areas, with limited space and large number of lives and economic value to protect, the design of 
water retaining structures faces serious challenges. For these conditions hard elements, like sheet 
pile walls or semi hard elements, like soil mixing techniques are required to construct water retaining 
structures that fulfil the design criteria. This opens a new discussion on soil – structure interaction at 
extreme loading conditions.
Cochairs
Cor Zwanenburg and Norma Patricia López Acosta
Short introduction to the TC 201 Workshop 
Chair of ISSMGE TC 201. 5 min
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14:45-16:15 Geomembrane sealing systems for the construction of new embankmentdams. 
Pascual Perazzo. 25 min
Lessons learned from full scale tests. 
Cor Zwanenburg. 25 min
Risk assessment on levees subjected to flooding through fragility curves. 
Norma Patricia López Acosta. 25 min
Questions. 15 min
TC 202 Transportation Geotechnics Workshop • Room Arena
Wednesday, November 20th
14:45-16:15
The goal of Technical Committee (TC) 202 is to apply broad engineering to bridge the gap between 
Pavement/Railway Engineering and Geotechnical Engineering. The main task is to promote co-opera-
tion and exchange of information and knowledge about the geotechnical aspects in design, construc-
tion, maintenance, monitoring and upgrading of roads, railways, airfields and harbor facilities. The task 
also covers the related environmental aspects.
Cochair
Erol Tutumluer
Opening Address by Prof. Erol Tutumluer 
Chair of ISSMGE TC 202. 5 min
A settlement in highway pavement and runoff water through karst lands. 
Prof. Felipe Collazos, Universidad de Cantabria. 15 min
Measurement of ballasted track stiffness by FWD for railway. 
Dr. Yoshitsugu Momoya, RTRI. 15 min
Laboratory and field investigation of railway ballast, stabilized by geosyn-
thetics. 
Prof. Andrei Petriaev, St. Petersburg State Transport University. 15 min
Applicability of AASHTO MEPDG approach to flexible pavements in cold 
regions of Japan. 
Prof. Tatsuya Ishikawa, Hokkaido University. 15 min
Development of a New Bender Element Field Sensor to Quantify Aggrega-
te Layer Stiffness. 
Erol Tutumluer.15 min
Questions and Answers / Discussion. 10 min
10:15-11:45 Small dams: some case histories. 
Ivan Vanícek. 25 min.
The International Levee Handbook. 
Maureen Corcoran. 25 min
Experimental testing on levees. 
Anne Lemnitzer. 25 min
Questions. 10 min
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Block 1
Monday, November 18th
Poster Exhibition
Hour: 10:15 -16:30 and 17:00-18:30
Room: Foyer Caribe
Poster presentations
Hour: 16:30 - 17:00
Room: Foyer Caribe
Session 1: Laboratory and in situ testing 
Caracterización física, mineralógica y mecá-
nica del suelo en el campo experimental de 
la UFRGS – Araquari, SC. 
Laura Vanessa Araque Lavalle, Fernando Schnaid
The Measurement of the Undrained Shear 
Strength of Muds Using a Cylinder. 
Luis E. Vallejo 
Mapeamento geoestatístico do NSPT na área 
urbana de Frederico Westphalen/RS - Brasil. 
João Antônio Riboli, Thaís Aquino dos Santos-
Thiago Alberto da Silva Pereir
Estimación de la capacidad soportante 
admisible del lahar en la ciudad de San José, 
Costa Rica, mediante ensayos presiométricos 
(PMT). Jonathan Echavarría Vargas, Carlos 
González Barrantes
Validación de parámetros para el ensayo 
de consolidación a velocidad constante de 
deformación “CRS” para suelos de Cocha-
bamba-Bolivia. 
Franz Pablo Antezana López, Abel Cruz 
Chuquichambi
Uso de Cristales Piezoeléctricos (de Flexión) 
en la Medición de la Velocidad de Ondas de 
Corte y Compresión. 
Claudia Chamorro-Zurita, Efraín Ovando-Shelley
Caracterización física, química y mineralógica 
de suelos diatomáceos, presentes en sedi-
mentos de la ciudad de Tunja - Colombia. 
Omar Javier Jiménez, Luis Carlos Leguizamón y 
Yaneth Pineda
Effects of structure on the erodibility of 
residual soils of gneiss. 
Marcelo Heidemann, Helena Paula Nierwinski, 
Arethusa Naara Goedert, Bruna Sell
POSTERS 
Shear Resistance of Zinc Mine Tailings. 
Luciana Prado Leite Praça, Bruna Hoch, Lucas 
Festugato, Fernando Schnaid, Sérgio Marques
Shear stress strength of a sand under plane 
strain conditions. 
Marina Bellaver Corte, Lucas Festugato, Nilo 
Cesar Consoli
Análisis del comportamiento elastoplástico 
con daño continuo de un suelo granular 
cementado artificialmente y reforzado con 
fibras de polipropileno. 
César Iberbuden, César Iberbuden, Arturo Jóse 
Ruiz-Diaz, Rubén A. López, Eduardo Bittar, 
Rubén Alejandro Quiñónez
Comportamiento Mecánico de Suelos Sulfata-
dos Estabilizados con Cenizas de Cáscara de 
Arroz y Cal Bajo Diferentes Temperaturas de 
Curado. 
Fernando Mencia, Fernando Mencia, Enrique 
Aguero, Rubén López, Eduardo Bittar, Rubén 
Alejandro Quiñonez
Compressibility Behavior of Residual Soils in 
the Colombian Andes under Constant Rate 
of Strain. 
Diego I. Galeano-Parra, David G. Zapata-Medina, 
Luis G. Arboleda-Monsalve, Gaspar Monsalve
Shearing of clay-structure interfaces at var-
ying deformation rates. 
Alejandro Martínez, Hans Henning Stutz
Control Aplicación de Ensayos de Penetración 
de Índice de Bosio para Caracterización de 
Rocas Blandas y Suelos Endurecidos. 
Miguel Stanichevsky S., Tatiana Stanichevsky O.
Characterization of Soil-geosynthetic Interac-
tion Properties along Various Directions. 
Gholam Hossein Roodi, Mahmoud M. Aboelwafa 
Ahmed, Jorge G. Zornberg
Instrumentación geotécnica de un terraplén 
de prueba con consolidación por vacío en los 
suelos blandos del Valle de México. 
René Contreras Galvan, Carlos Sánchez, Mario 
Trigo Lara
Study of the Characteristics of Anisotropy in 
the Hydro-mechanical Behavior in Clayey Silt. 
Octavio Enrique Cárdenas Díaz, Jaime González 
Valles, Juan Ángel Domínguez Pecina, Juan José 
Almanza Wong
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Soil behavior under non-uniform and bidirec-
tional cyclic loading. 
D.E. Escribano, G. Montalva, and A. Brennan
Polymer enhanced clay-sand mixture. 
Codevilla Mauro, Camilo Casagrande, Gastón 
Fernández, Teresa Piqué, Diego Manzanal
Servo-assisted and computer-controlled 
variable energy dynamic super heavy pen-
etrometer. 
Miguel Ángel Benz Navarrete, Pierre Breul and 
Philippe Moustan
Estudio comparativo de los módulos reci-
piente, dinámico y dinámico máximo en 
suelos del lago de Texcoco. 
Mario Flores Guzmán, Alexandra Ossa López, 
Santiago Fernández, Martín Arenas, Enrique R. 
Gómez Rosas, David A. Santoyo García
Uso de granulometrías y densidades esca-
ladas para la caracterización geotécnica de 
enrocados. 
Claudio Roman, Leonardo Dorador
Impact of Shear Modulus on Maximum 
Allowable Pressures in HDD. 
Tugce Baser, Alp Balcay
Determinación del coeficiente de permeabi-
lidad de jales en un permeámetro de carga 
constante y pared flexible. 
María Elena Acevedo Valle, Osvaldo Flores 
Castrellón
Actualización de la aplicación del ficómetro 
en las zonas I y II (Lomas y Transición, res-
pectivamente) de la Ciudad de México y su 
comparación y/o correlación con la prueba 
de corte directo. 
Raziel Saúl Ponce Navarrete, David Eduardo Sal-
gado Mendoza, Ana Lourdes Ponce Navarrete, 
José Luis González, Rubén Gutiérrez Cayetano
Determinación de las propiedades de 
compresibilidad de la arcilla de la Ciudad 
de México mediante pruebas de laboratorio 
(consolidación unidimensional) y campo 
(presiómetro y piezocono). 
David Eduardo Salgado Mendoza, Rigoberto 
Rivera Constantino.
Módulo cortante y amortiguamiento de 
relaves mineros no saturados. 
Alfonso Fernandez, Osvaldo Flores
Application of backpressure for saturation of 
soil samples in cyclic triaxial tests. 
Naemeh Naghavi, and M. Hesham El Naggar
Comparison of ultrasonic and laser vibrome-
ter measurements for condition assessment 
of cemented specimens. 
Giovanni Cascante
Session 2 Analytical and Physical modelling in 
geotechnics 
Calculation of settlement in sands using a 
non-linear constitutive equation. 
Agustín Demeneghi Colina, Margarita Puebla 
Cadena
Granular Mechanics of Shear Banding of Soil 
Slopes. 
Calixtro Yanqui
Session 3 Numerical modelling in geotechnics 
Análisis numérico del proceso de infiltra-
ción-deformación en suelos parcialmente 
saturados reforzados con geosintéticos per-
meables usando un modelo acoplado. 
Juan Carlos Guzmán Martínez, Edwin Fabián Gar-
cía, Aristizábal Carlos, Alberto Vega Posada
Numerical analysis of piled raft composed by 
short piles. 
Jean R García, Paulo J R Albuquerque.
Effects of hydraulic model on gas produc-
tivity and geomechanical stability during 
methane hydrate production by depressuri-
zation. 
Jung-Tae Kim, Ah-Ram Kim, Gye-Chun Cho, Chul-
Whan Kang and Joo Young Lee
Numerical analysis of the behavior of com-
pacted and naturalunsaturated tropical soils. 
Isabela Augusto Silveira, Fábio Visnadi Prado 
Soares, Rodrigo Botelho Dumont, Heraldo Luiz 
Giacheti and Roger Augusto Rodrigues
Evaluación de la interacción suelo-estructura 
dinámica en depósitos de suelo blando em-
pleando dos métodos: numérico y analítico. 
Omar Franco Camilo, José-Luis Rangel-Núñez, 
Luciano R. Fernández-Sola and Alonso Gó-
mez-Bernal
Evaluación de estabilidad de taludes com-
puestos por bimsoils/bimrocks mediante 
modelación computacional de superficies de 
falla tortuosas con el algoritmo A*. 
Exneyder Andrés Montoya Araque, Lúdger O. 
Suarez-Burgoa
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Modelado numérico de las pilas tipo barretes 
en condiciones del subsuelo de la zona del 
lago de la ciudad de México. 
José Luis Rangel Núñez, Enrique Ibarra-Razo y 
Ricardo Antonio Flores-Eslava
Criteria to perform ground-segmented 
tunnels lining interaction analysis, using a 
hybrid method. 
Marco Pérez Ángeles, Gabriel Auvinet Guichard, 
Rui Grilo Bibi, Diego Forero Buitrago
Effects on rail and highway infrastructures 
due to underground excavations according 
to simplified and detailed 3D modelling 
approaches. 
Wagner Martin, Alejandra Villouta 
Determination and comparison of the N’q 
factor of pile capacity. 
Sergio Antonio Martínez-Galván, Neftalí Sar-
miento-Solano and Juan Fernando Tovar-Flores
Ensayos de carga estática en pilotes y preci-
sión de las extrapolaciones. 
Juan Alfonso Carcolé Galea, Juan Francisco 
Mestre Morales
Evaluation of Direct CPT Methods for Estima-
ting the Ultimate Capacity of Driven Piles. 
Murad Abu-Farsakh, Mohsen Amirmojahedi
Aplicación de los métodos probabilísticos en 
la obtención de los coeficientes de seguridad 
para el diseño geotécnico en Cuba. 
Gilberto Julio Quevedo Sotolongo, Ana Virginia 
González-Cueto Vila
Análisis tridimensional de la interacción 
suelo-estructura estática de un edificio con 
cimentación a base de zapatas desplantado 
sobre un suelo friccionante. 
Armando Rafael Hermosillo Arteaga, Héctor 
Sanginés García, Agustín Demeneghi Colina, 
Norma Legorreta Linares
On the relation between the excavation 
energies of continuous flight auger piles and 
the unconfined compressive strength of the 
surrounding soils. 
Luan Carlos de Sena Monteiro Ozelim, Darym 
Junior Ferrari de Campos, Jose Camapum de 
Carvalho, Andre Luis Brasil Cavalcante
Numerical Analysis of Bamboo Piles for 
Slope Stability. 
Angel Mauricio Jaime Davila, Celso Romanel y 
Khrosrow Ghavami
Uplift performance of large-capacity helical 
piles in a tropical residual soil. 
João M. S. M. dos Santos Filho, Cristina de H. C. 
Tsuha
Aplicación de los métodos no lineales para 
la determinación de los asentamientos de 
las cimentaciones superficiales. Experiencia 
cubana. 
Ana Virginia González-Cueto Vila, Gilberto Julio 
Quevedo Sotolongo
Filosofía del ensaye y puesta en tensión de 
anclajes en suelo de acuerdo con la normati-
vidad internacional. 
Rogelio Monroy Salgado, José de Jesús Gonzá-
lez, Juan Paulín y Guillermo Clavellina
Influence of the variability of geotechnical 
parameters in cantilever retaining walls 
design. 
Rubén R. Vargas, Guillermo J. Zavala
Block 2
Tuesday, November 19th
Poster Exhibition
Hour: 9:45-16:15 and 16:45-18:15
Room: Foyer Caribe
Poster presentations
Hour: 16:15 – 16:45
Room: Foyer Caribe
Session 4 Unsaturated soils
Dependency of water retention properties 
in kaolinitic soils according to contents of 
fossilized microalgae artificially added. Juan 
Carlos Ruge C., Wilmar Castro, Javier F. Cama-
cho, Fausto A. Molina
Session 6 Foundations and retaining estruc-
tures
Propuesta de solución para resolver la 
excavación de un túnel somero de sección 
rectangular en suelos blandos. 
Sergio Villar Solares, Juan Paulín Aguirre
A comparison of geophysical techniques 
and analysis to evaluate the geotechnical 
parameters of the riparian environment of 
Moquegua - Peru. 
Christ Jesús Barriga Paria, Jorge Pantaleón Barri-
ga Gamarra, Eleonardo Lucas Pereira
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Algunas experiencias sobre el efecto de la 
re-inyección en la capacidad de carga de 
anclajes en suelo. 
José de Jesús González Santiago, Rogelio Mon-
roy Salgado, Sergio Villar Solares, Juan Paulín 
Aguirre y Guillermo Clavellina Miller
Evaluación de una cimentación profunda en 
sistema placa pilote e inclusiones rígidas 
para un edificio construido en suelo colapsa-
ble del Distrito Federal, Brasil. 
Julian Asdrubal Buritica García, Juan Félix Rodrí-
guez Rebolledo, Juliana Alarcón Posse, Renato 
Pinto da Cunha
Pruebas de carga estática a compresión. 
Caso historia Reforma 432 en la Ciudad de 
México. 
José de Jesús González, Rogelio Monroy 
Salgado, Guillermo Clavellina Miller, Juan Paulín 
Aguirre, Sergio Villar Solares
A case history on evolution of shaft resistan-
ce in long piles placed in layered soils. 
José Luis Rangel Nunez, Enrique Ibarra Razo, 
Nadia Mendoza-Martinez
Updating assessed damage probabilities for 
deep excavations in soft soils. 
Carlos Javier Sainea-Vargas, Mario Camilo 
Torres-Suárez, Gabriel Auvinet Guichard
Static Load Test on Pipe Piles for a Vehicle 
Bridge in the Gulf of Mexico Area. 
Walter Paniagua Zavala, Erika Valle Puga Asael 
Elvira Martínez Cecilia Hernández González 
Claudia Pineda Hernández
Análisis de la distribución de empujes de 
suelos sobre estructuras de contención en 
excavaciones profundas. Sebastian Lopez 
Retamales, Carola Sanhueza
Underpinning building in deposits of lacus-
trine origin. 
Alberto Cuevas Rivas, Juan M. Cuevas, Lorena 
Vega and Daniel Almaraz
Talud Reforzado con Cara Vegetable; Contri-
bución para el Desarrollo de Infraestructura 
Vial. 
Enrique Ramírez Torres, Enrique Ramírez Torres
40 años de estructuras de suelo reforzadas 
con geomalla de HDPE: Los muros más altos 
de Latinoamérica a los Emiratos Árabes 
Unidos. 
C. Doulala-Rigbya, A. Pérez
Effect of reaction system on the test pile and 
test barrette response in vertical load tests. 
Sidali Rafa, Belkacem Moussai
Session 8 Offshore Geotechnics
Offshore Foundation with Large Diameter Pi-
les Anchored in Rock - Case of EEAB Jaguari. 
Danielle Fernanda Morais de Melo, Thomaz 
Henrique Leite, Habib Georges Jarrouge Neto, 
Izabel Gomes Bastos e Roberto Kochen
Session 9 Transportation geotechnics
Detección de áreas de pavimento en imáge-
nes aéreas obtenidas a través de vehículos 
aéreos no tripulados (UAV) utilizando filtro 
de Gabor. 
Silvia Patricia Salas Aguilar, Omar Chávez Alegría
Use of an elastoplastic framework for the 
understanding of the CBR test for fine and 
coarse soils. 
Cristhian C. Mendoza, Bernardo Caicedo
Emprego de Polietileno de Baixa Densidade 
(PEBD) Reciclado Para Reforço de Solos. 
Caio Soares Camargos, Ivonne Góngora; Hellen 
Evenyn Fonseca da Silva; Matheus Viana de 
Souza; Lorena Silva Pereira
Labaratory and field investigation of railway 
ballast, stabilized by geosynthetics. 
Andrei Petriaev
Comparison of most used methods and 
costs for recovering environmental liabilities 
involving geotechnical problems in Brazil 
and worldwide. 
Amanda Christine Gallucci Silva, Alexandre 
Samuel Ramalho, Alessandra Costa Gosh, Larissa 
de Brum Passini
Determinação da Resistência da Mistura 
Solo-Cimento com a Adição de Pó de Pedra 
para a Possível Inserção da Camada Base 
para Pavimentação. 
Luana Rangel Marques, Rideci de Jesús da Costa 
Farias, Leidiane Moraes García
Strength properties of large sized virgin and 
recycled aggregates influencing rutting per-
formances of pavement working platforms 
and low volume roads. 
Erol Tutumluer, Hasan Kazmee and Issam 
Qamhia
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Comparative study of permanent defor-
mation of asphaltic mixtures using two 
methods of performance assessment. 
Ricardo Gil Rodrigues, Luis Felipe Costa Lima; 
Henrique Apolinário Rody; Silvana Macedo de 
Vasconcelos
Evaluation of Resilient Behavior of a Clayey 
Soil with Polyethylene Terephthalate(PET) 
Insertion for Application in Pavements Base. 
Bárbara Viapiana de Carvalho, Michéle Dal Toé 
Casagrande, Raquel Quadros Velloso, Márcio 
Muniz de Farias
Comparación de los ensayos de Penetración 
de Cono Dinámico (DCP) y Penetrómetro de 
Cono Dinámico de Energía Variable PANDA®. 
Sebastián López Retamales, Miguel Benz, 
Philippe Moustan
Recomendación para determinar curvas de 
compactación Proctor estándar utilizando el 
equipo giratorio. 
Natalia Pérez García, Paul Garnica Anguas y Luis 
Alberto Bautista
Session 19 Energy Geotechnics
Investigating the thermal performance of 
energy diaphragm retaining walls. 
Nikolas Makasis, Guillermo A. Narsilio, Asal 
Bidarmaghz
A machine learning approach for the perfor-
mance prediction of GCHPs with horizontal 
ground heat exchangers. 
Yu Zhou, Guillermo Andres Narsillo, Nicolas 
Makasis y Lu Aye 
A review on gas migration processes through 
engineered and geological barriers. 
Marcelo Sanchez, Muhammad Ali Falak, Bohan 
Zhou
Session 7 Excavations and tunnels
Experiencias en la instrumentación geo-
técnica instalada en dos grandes túneles 
construidos recientemente en México. 
Antonio Vargas Camacho
Characterization of the coefficient of earth 
pressure at rest (k0) at the level of what will 
be the General Valley Drain Tunnel. 
Luis Enrique Gutiérrez Morales
European Practice on the Use of PVC-P 
Geomembranes in Tunnels and Underground 
Structures - Special Testable and Reparable 
Waterproofing Systems. 
Massimo Cunegatti 
Monitoreo de los principales parámetros de 
una máquina tuneladora para el control de 
asentamientos durante la excavación en una 
zona urbana. 
Diana Gutiérrez Uclés, Carlos David Martínez 
Zarazua
Evaluación de tratamientos de sostenimiento 
y de impermeabilización en las galerías del 
Bitúnel del tren interurbano México – Toluca 
(TIMT). 
Julio Cesar Chablé Moreno, Ulises Talonia Vargas, 
Jorge López Molina
Deep excavation in redeposited soils in 
mining areas. 
Alberto Cuevas, Lorena Vega, Saúl Mayorga 
Session 10: Natural Hazards
Soil Movements Correlation to Pluviometric 
Events in BR-101 Highway, in Santa Catarina, 
Brazil. 
Isabel Cristina Salah, Milena Arruda Silva, An-
drés Miguel González Acevedo, Liamara Paglia 
Sestrem, Larissa De Brum Passini, Alessander 
Christopher Morales Kormann, Vitor Pereira Faro
Block 3
Wednesday, November 20th
Poster Exhibition
Hour: 9:45 -16:45 and 16:45-18:15
Room: Foyer Caribe
Poster presentations
Hour: 16:15 – 16:45
Room: Foyer Caribe
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Map of mass movement in a region of the 
State of São Paulo, Brazil. 
Otavio Furiatto Palmeira, Anna Silvia Palcheco 
Peixoto, Ilza Machado Kaiser
UAV photogrammetry: land survey and soil 
loss estimation of gully erosion in Ouro 
Branco, MG, Brazil. 
Raul Morais Souza, Maria das Graças Gardoni, 
Caio César de Sousa Mello e Daniel Henrique 
Carneiro Salim, Jéssica Dell’Isola Antunes
Estimación de la velocidad del hundimiento 
diferencial en el Municipio de Irapuato, Gto; 
México. 
Norma Liliana Cruz Ortiz, María Alejandra Rivera 
Trasgallo, José de Jesús Torres García, Norma 
Claudia Calderón Rosas
Session 11 Embankments and tailings dam
Propuesta metodológica para la selección 
óptima del tipo de presa mediante el uso de 
técnicas multicriterio. 
Juan David Zapata Cruz, Johnatan Ramos Rivera, 
Ariel Bustamante, Oscar Echeverri Ramírez
Potencial de Licuación Estática en el Recreci-
miento de una Represa de Relaves. 
Herbert Miguel Ángel Maturano Rafael, Paul 
Febre Muyon, Celso Romanel
Control de Deformación en Terraplenes Refu-
lados Sobre Suelos Compresibles. 
Miguel Stanichevsky S., Tatiana Stanichevsky O.
Comportamiento volumétrico y evolución 
de los parámetros de resistencia de relaves 
de oro reforzados con fibra de polipropileno 
homogéneamente distribuida. 
Juan Manuel Girao Sotomayor, Michéle Dal Toé 
Casagrande, Laura Yarick Barragán Rodríguez
Evolución de los parámetros de resistencia 
y comportamiento volumétrico de un relave 
de hierro reforzado con fibras de polipropile-
no en la condición no drenada. 
Juan Manuel Girao Sotomayor, Michéle Dal Toé 
Casagrande
Enfoque geotécnico del concreto asfáltico en 
las obras hidráulicas. 
Raúl Vicente Orozco Santoyo
Estudio De Estabilidad De Taludes En Presas 
De Tierra En Condiciones No Saturadas 
Cuando Ocurre Descenso Rápido De Nivel De 
Agua. 
Grover Romer Llanque Ayala, Francisco Chagas 
da Silva Filho, Rosiel Ferreira Leme, Claudio 
Fernando Mahler
Session 12 Soils Dynamics and earthquake 
engineering
Liquefaction Vulnerability: A Case Study from 
the 2010 Chile Earthquake. 
Carola Sanhueza Plaza
Selection of subduction ground motion 
prediction equations for seismic hazard 
assessment in Peru. 
Osmar Charca, Carlos Gamarra and Denys Parra
Interacción sísmica de un sistema paso 
elevado-presa en suelos firmes. 
Daniel de la Rosa Arenas, Juan Manuel Mayoral, 
y Simón Tepalcapa
Influencia de una falla activa en la respuesta 
sísmica de un paso elevado. 
Juan Manuel Mayoral, Daniel de la Rosa, Mau-
ricio Alcaraz
Medidas de ruido ambiental en la ciudad de 
La Serena, Chile. Un aporte a la Microzonifi-
cación Geotécnica de La Serena – IV Región 
Coquimbo, Chile. 
Jaime Rodríguez Urquiza, Christopher Díaz 
Castillo
Comparison of Arias Intensity and Duration 
Prediction Equations for Shallow and Crustal 
Earthquakes in Japan. 
Mahdi Bahrampouri, Adrian Rodriguez-Marek, 
Russell Green
Behavior of a skirt-type foundation for a Me-
tro railroad overpass on the Mexico City soft 
clay, during the Mw 8.2 Gulf of Tehuantepec 
earthquake, on September 7th 2017. 
Manuel J. Mendoza, Salvador A. Mendoza and 
Miguel Rufiar 
Session 13 Ground Improvement
Comportamiento estático de un suelo fino 
con inclusiones de fibra de Polietileno Teref-
talato (PET). 
Carolina Hernández, Eduardo Botero
Uso de Nanomateriales en Ingeniería Geo-
técnica. 
Hector Antonio Velázquez
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Evaluation of unconfined compressive 
strength of clayey soils typical of the city of 
Curvelo-MG-Brazil reinforced with geogrids 
and woven geotextiles. 
Raimundo da Costa Lima Júnior, Juliana Reinert, 
Tulio Cesar Floripes Gonçalves, Camilla Cristina 
Cunha Menezes
Uso de escória de aciária na melhoria das 
propiedades mecânicas do solo Laterítico do 
Distrito Federal para utilização em pavimen-
tação. 
Matheus Viana de Souza, Hellen Evenyn 
Fonseca da Silva; Caio Soares Camargos; Ivonne 
Góngora
Mejoramiento De Suelos Arcillosos Por Medio 
De Procesos De Fusión En El Laboratorio. 
Lesly Nathalie Lopez Valiente, Luis Alberto 
Caceres Cardenas 
Vibro-replacement for challenging soil con-
ditions in Port Structures - Recent cases from 
Caribbean area. 
De la Guardia Fernando, Stoehr, Bertrand Schau-
ber, Pascal
Comparative Analysis of the Mechanical Be-
havior of the Lateritic Natural Soil of Brasília 
and the Soil Mixed with Vermeculite on the 
Composition in the Cavas of Urban Regions. 
Neusa Maria Bezerra Mota, Sonny Albert Amo-
rim da Silva; Bruno de Castro Biill
Strain Compatibility in the Stability of 
Embankments Reinforced at the Base with 
Geosynthetics on Soft Soils. 
Paulo José Brugger, Cristina F. Schmidt, Fernando 
Ruiz, and Lilma R. Schimmel
Session 14 Sustainability and geoenvironment
Effect of Temperature on CO2 Sequestration 
by BOF Slag in Landfill Cover. 
Jyoti K. Chetri, Raksha K. Rai, Krishna R. Reddy
Importance of composing representative 
samples according to the Theory of Sampling 
(TOS) for the reuse of water treatment 
sludge. 
Juliana Keiko Tsugawa, Evelyn Fernandes da 
Silva Sabino, Renata Monte, Maria Eugenia 
Gimenez Boscov
Studies, Analysis and Recovery Proposal for 
an Erosive Process Located on the Banks of 
the DF 250 Highway in the Federal District, 
Brazil. 
Rideci Farias, Haroldo Paranhos; Luana Rangel 
Marques; Nelson Otávio da Motta Vieira; Yngrid 
Pereira Marques.
Influencia de la Contaminación con Diésel 
en las Propiedades Geotécnicas de un Suelo 
Fino. 
Pamela García Ramírez,Christian E. Hernán-
dez-Mendoza
Análisis Dinámico de la Cimentación de 
Compresor Reciprocante. 
Adrián López Flores, Antonio Ruvalcaba Gonzá-
lez, Ismael Aldama Barrera, Ricardo Rodríguez 
Segura
Efecto en las propiedades geotécnicas y 
compresibilidad de una arcilla expansiva 
contaminada con gasolina. 
Norma Patricia Curiel Iñiguez, María de la Luz 
Pérez Rea, Eduardo Rojas-Gonzáles, Jaime 
Moisés Horta Rangel, Elda Montes-Zarazúa, José 
Alberto Rodríguez-Morales
Session 16 Forensics engineering
Factor miedo: subjetividad como variable 
asociada a la gestión de factores de seguri-
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9th Arthur Casagrande Lecture
Geotechnical engineering in spatially variable soft soils: The case of Mexico City
Gabriel Auvinet Guichard
Coffee Break (Exhibition)
SE2 
Women in 
geotechnical 
engineering
TC 211 
Ground 
Improvement 
Opening Ceremony
Monday
18th November 2019
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CAPG, Geoeducation for the Future
Hugo Acosta-Martinez
History and future of industry/academia partnership Part 1
Co-chairs: Mary Ellen Large, Juan Paulin
Poster exhibition 
Block 2
Poster exhibition 
Block 2
Foyer CaribeBahíaArenaCoralMiramar 3 & 4Miramar 2Miramar 1Isla 5 & 6Isla 3 & 4Isla 1 & 2Hour
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Coffee Break (Exhibition)
Coffee Break (Exhibition)
Coffee Break (Exhibition)
Lunch
session 7
Excavations 
and tunnels
session 8
Offshore 
Geotechnics
session 9
Transportation 
geotechnics
session 10
Natural
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session 11
Embankments 
and tailings 
dams
session 12
Soils Dynamics 
and earthquake 
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session 7
Excavations 
and tunnels
session 8
Offshore 
Geotechnics
session 9
Transportation 
geotechnics
session 10
Natural
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session 11
Embankments 
and tailings 
dams
session 12
Soils Dynamics 
and earthquake 
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session 7
Excavations 
and tunnels
session 9
Transportation 
geotechnics
session 11
Embankments 
and tailings 
dams
session 12
Soils Dynamics 
and earthquake 
engineering
TC 308
Energy geotechnics
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TC 308
Energy geotechnics
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session 19
Energy 
geotechnics
session 15
Preservation 
of historic 
sites
session 15
Preservation 
of historic 
sites
session 6
Foundations 
and retaining 
structures
Presentation of the publication: 
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MDOC-CFE" (Miramar 3 y 4)
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Tomás Pérez Suárez
History and future of industry/academia partnership Part 2
Co-chairs: Mary Ellen Large, Juan Paulin
TC 202
Transportation
workshop
Foyer CaribeBahíaArenaCoralMiramar 3 & 4Miramar 2Miramar 1Isla 5 & 6Isla 3 & 4Isla 1 & 2Hour
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Coffee Break (Exhibition)
Clousure Ceremony
Gala dinner (Miramar salon)
Coffee Break (Exhibition)
Coffee Break (Exhibition)
Lunch
session 13
Ground 
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session 14
Sustainability 
and 
geoenvironment
session 14
Sustainability 
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geoenvironment
session 16
Forensics 
engineering
session 17
Rock 
mechanics
session 18
Education
session 13
Ground 
improvement
session 16
Forensics 
engineering
session 17
Rock 
mechanics
session 13
Ground 
improvement
TC 201
Dykes and 
Leeves 
workshop 
TC 201
Dykes and 
Leeves 
workshop 
Poster exhibition
Block 3
Poster exhibition
Block 3
session 12
Soils Dynamics 
and earthquake 
engineering
Wednesday
20th November 2019
Poster Presentation
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Preconference courses
Anchors design, construction and testing • Room Miramar 1
Description
Soil anchors is a fundamental element of restraint systems used in deep open-air excavations. Their 
particularity is that each one of them must be tested before being put into service, in order to attest 
that they will maintain their load during the service stage without losing capacity, which could com-
promise the excavation’s stability.
The different types of tests (research, compliance, acceptance) allow to validate the design as well as 
the execution. Since the construction procedure has a decisive influence on the capacity that anchors 
can develop, great importance must always be given to controls during execution.
The course will cover the geotechnical and structural design, the construction procedure and test 
methods and types based on international standards (Europe and USA). Additionally, recommen-
dations will be given for the instrumentation of anchored systems and to evaluate the behavior in 
service. Both in the design and the construction aspects, real national and international cases will be 
presented to exemplify and reinforce the theoretical background.
It will be a practical course that will encourage participation and discussion among attendees. 
Bibliography will be delivered.
Content
1.- Introduction (history, types, materials)
2.- Codes and recommendations
3.- Geotechnical and structural design anchors
4.- Construction
5.- Tests
6.- Retaining anchors systems
7.- Conclusions
8.- Bibliography and references
Instructors: 
Rogelio Monroy Salgado
Gerente Técnico
Cimentaciones Mexicanas S.A. de C.V.
Juan Paulín Aguirre
Coordinador de Ingeniería Zona
IBEROAMÉRICA, Soletanche-Bachy
Coordinator: Juan Paulín Aguirre
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Energy geotechnics: from the basics to the practice • Room Isla 2
Description
This course focuses on the study of the main physical phenomena and processes that control the 
behavior of soil. Problems of practical interest in the broad field geo-energy are analyzed during 
the course. The fundamental aspects associated with the coupled non-isothermal flow problems are 
presented. The course also contemplates a brief introduction to the numerical solution of this type of 
problem. Experimental studies showing the behavior of soils and rocks under THM will be discussed 
as well, along with key constitutive relationships that can be used in numerical simulations.
Further, laboratory-and field-scale physical modeling studies that have been performed to validate 
simulations will also be discussed.
Content
1.- Introduction and basic concepts
2.- Saturated flow in soils and rocks
3.- Unsaturated (multiphase) flow in soils and rocks
4.- Heat transport in soils and rocks
5.- Deformable porous media
6.- Applications: geothermal energy piles, geothermal heat storage systems, reservoir simulation, 
borehole stability, hydraulic fracturing
Instructors: 
Marcelo Sánchez
Chair ISSMGE TC308 - Energy Geotechnics
Texas A&M University (USA)
Norma Patricia López Acosta
Instituto de Ingeniería UNAM (Mexico)
Coordinator: Norma Patricia López Acosta
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Flexible pavement design, mechanistic empirical approach • Room Isla 3
Description
Current trends for analysis and design of pavements with methods called mechanistic, involving the 
calculation of the state of stresses and strains in the pavement structure, characterized in turn by the 
resilient modulus of compacted soil layers and modules presented dynamic of the asphalt layers. 
the theoretical and practical aspects of this, and the importance in determining impairment models 
that allow an estimate of the useful life according to the desired performance indicators discussed. 
aspects of the necessary calibration equations involved, the use of accelerated assaying pavement in 
this context and the need to consider that modern pavement design needs to be seen are discussed 
as part of the overall management of the assets of all network highway.
The course has the following objectives:
1. Review mechanistic-empirical design methodologies for existing flexible pavements.
2. To provide a forum for attendees to share experiences on this subject.
Content
 
1.- Introduction to the problem of pavement design
2.- General methodology of mechanistic-empirical methods
3.- Theories for the calculation of stress and strain
4.- Characterization of vehicular traffic
5.- Properties of soils and granular materials
6.- Properties of asphalt mixtures
7.-Deterioration models and calculation of life
8.- Climatic effects to consider
9.- Estimation of uncertainty
10.- Case studies
AASHTO Guide mechanistic-empirical
Method II-UNAM
Method IMT-PAVE
Others
11.- Conclusions and Discussion
Instructors: 
Alexandra Ossa
UNAM
Freddy Sánchez Leal
Trasenda
Paul Garnica
IMT
Coordinator: Paul Garnica Anguas
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Micropile design and construction • Room Isla 4
Content
 
1.- Welcome and Introductions 
2.- Introduction and State of Practice, Construction Methods
3.- Geotechnical Design Considerations
4.- Structural Design Considerations
5.- Micropile Materials and Equipment
6.- Hollow Core Bars
7.- Inspection (QA/QC)
8.- Micropile Testing and Performance
9.- Lateral Loading and Group Behavior of Micropiles
10.- Micropile Case Histories
11.- Case Histories
12.- Discussion
Introduction and State of Practice, Construction Methods
John Wolosick, P.E., D.GE, Hayward Baker, Inc.
The history of micropile development in North America since 1980 will be discussed. Topics include 
how micropiles were initially used as low capacity foundation elements and how their development 
has led to carrying ultra-high capacities of hundreds of tons.
Geotechnical Design Considerations
Dr. Jesús Gómez, P.E., D.GE, GEI Consultants, Inc.
This presentation will focus on the geotechnical aspects of micropile design, including presumptive 
bond strength values for design of micropiles in various geological formations. It will explain the 
procedure for micropile design and verification and uplift, compression and lateral loading will be 
discussed.
Structural Design Considerations
Dr. Jesús Gómez, P.E., D.GE, GEI Consultants, Inc.
This presentation focuses on special considerations related to the structural design and performance 
of micropiles. Fundamental structural design of the micropile cross section, special characteristics of 
micropile materials, and application of building codes are discussed. It concludes with the topic of 
strain compatibility.
Micropile Materials and Equipment
John Wolosick, P.E., D.GE, Hayward Baker, Inc.
Instructors: 
Jesús Gómez John Wolosick
Coordinator: Mary Ellen Large
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Hollow Core Bars
John Wolosick, P.E., D.GE, Hayward Baker, Inc.
This presentation will explain the hollow bar micropile, its components, and the major benefits of 
the system. It will cover the installation and testing procedures, equipment used to achieve the 
maximum benefits, and structural and geotechnical design relative to building codes and site specific 
geotechnical reports.
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Inspection (QA/QC)
John Wolosick, P.E., D.GE, Hayward Baker, Inc.
With any good foundation system, quality control is key. This session will outline the critical elements 
of the micropile QC program and important elements for the engineer to recognize in design and 
construction.
Micropile Testing and Performance
Dr. Jesús Gómez, P.E., D.GE, GEI Consultants, Inc.
Load testing is an important part of almost every micropile project. Topics covered will include: typical 
procedures and equipment, new ASTM rules, strain gauges, acceptance criteria, and apparent elastic 
length.
Lateral Loading and Group Behavior of Micropiles
Dr. Jesús Gómez, P.E., D.GE, GEI Consultants, Inc.
Lateral loads frequently govern the size of the micropile casing. Topic present include: Loadings, 
typical lateral load test setup, comparison of lateral tests results to predictions (LPILE, NAVFAC, and 
Characteristic Load Method), combined stresses, options for increasing lateral resistance, analysis for 
battered piles, and “fixity” what is it? Can it be achieved? The intent is to demonstrate that properly 
designed micropiles and micropile groups can be designed to support lateral loads.
Micropile Case Histories
John Wolosick, P.E., D.GE, Hayward Baker, Inc.
Dr. Jesús Gómez, P.E., D.GE, GEI Consultants, Inc.
Micropiles are used on a variety of innovative and challenging international micropile applica-
tions.
Case Histories
Discussion
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New seismic design criteria for foundations and embankments in Mexico 
Room Miramar 2
Description
Introduce updating criteria used in the design of foundations and earthy works published in the new 
version of Chapter 2015 of the Manual Earthquake Resistant Design of Civil Works CFE. Also expose 
the methodologies for obtaining and analyzing seismic forces focused on the effects of soil-structure 
interaction. Make application examples for practical cases.
Content
 
1.- Seismic design spectra for the Mexican territory
2.- Interaction soil-structure
3.- Shallow foundations
4.- Deep foundations
5.- Retaining walls
6.- Tunnels and ports
7.- Buried pipes
Instructors: 
Dr. Ulises 
Mena Hernández
Gerente de Ingeniería Civil
Instituto Nacional de Electricidad 
y Energías Limpias
Instructors: 
Dr. Luciano Fernández 
UAM-Azcapotzalco (Mexico)
Dr. Luis Eduardo 
Pérez Rocha
Investigador
Instituto Nacional de
Electricidad y Energías Limpias
Dr. Alejo Sfriso
(Argentina)
Dr. José Luis Rangel Núñez 
UAM-Azcapotzalco (Mexico)
Ing. Luis Alberto Cruz López
UAM-Azcapotzalco (Mexico)
Ing. Omar Franco
UAM-Azcapotzalco (Mexico)
M.I. Nicolas Ageo 
Melchor García 
Investigador
Instituto Nacional de Electrici-
dad y Energías Limpias
Coordinator: Ulises Mena Hernández
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Numerical modelling in geotechnics • Room Miramar 3
Description
• Know the strategies of numerical modeling to study the interaction soil-structure in static and dy-
namic conditions, as well as the static design of tunnels.
• Calibrate numerical models, both static and dynamic analytical solutions.
• Knowing the signal preprocessing to optimize the dynamic numerical model.
• Knowing the particular aspects of the programs used in the course for the analysis of soil-structure 
interaction.
• Knowing the basic constitutive equations to perform the analysis of interaction soil-structure.
• Evaluate fault conditions and building service-foundation-ground system.
Coordinator: José Luis Rangel Núñez
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Content
 
Course presentation
1.- State of art of soil-structure interaction 
(TBD)
2.- Soil constitutive equations 
(Dr. Alejo Sfriso)
3.- Introduction to soil-structure interaction 
(Dr. Jose Luis Rangel)
4.- Numerical modeling of soil-structure interaction static
(Dr. Jose Luis Rangel)
• Break (Coffee, tea and cookies) 
5.- Examples of numerical modeling of foundations and tunnels 
(Luis Alberto Cruz López Ing.)
• Lunch 
6.- Interaction soil-structure dynamic 
(Dr. Luciano Fernández)
7.- Numerical modeling of dynamic soil-structure interaction 
(Dr. Jose Luis Rangel)
8.- Example analytical and numerical modeling (Omar Franco Ing.)
Recommended previous knowledge
• Mathcad, Matlab, Deepsoil, Sap, Elpla, Midas.
• Finite element method, mechanics of continuous medium, constitutive equations for soils and rocks, 
soil dynamics, Computer programming.
Requisites
• Participants must bring their own laptop computer with the following software installed before the 
course begins: Mathcad, Matlab, Deepsoil, SAP y ELPLA.
The links to obtain the specific time versions of the programs are:
MATHCAD: https://www.ptc.com/es/try-and-buy/free-trials
MATLAB: https://la.mathworks.com/
DEEPSOIL: http://deepsoil.cee.illinois.edu/
SAP: https://www.csiamerica.com/products/sap2000
ELPLA: https://geotecsoftware.com/buy/product/download/file_id-11
MIDAS: http://en.midasuser.com/download/main.asp
Software to be used in the course
MATHCAD, MATLAB, DEEPSOIL, SAP, ELPLA y MIDAS (GEN y GTS).
In the course, computers will be provided to participants with the following Pre-installed software: 
MIDAS Gen y Gts nx.
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Risk analysis and reliability in geotechnics • Room Isla 5
Rock excavations • Room Miramar 4
Description
Provide participants with the necessary to perform quantitative risk analysisand reliability in the 
practice of geotechnical engineering tools. For practical purposes, the engineering risk analysis usually 
performed in three main stages: 1) identification, 2) Valuation and 3) Administration. This type of 
analysis can be qualitative or quantitative. A qualitative analysis of risk is limited to the development 
of stages 1 and 3, whereas quantitative analysis also requires the development of step 2. In the latter 
case, an explicit estimate of the probability of failure is performed and its complement unit: the confi-
abilidad and consequences identified if the danger occur are evaluated. Methodologies for estimating 
the risk and reliability are explained through illustrative examples which analyze: Tali, Foundations 
and tunnels, among other works.
Description
The course presents fundamental aspects of the design and analysis of surface and underground exca-
vations from a rational mechanical perspective. First, the basics of rock mechanics and soil relevant to 
rational treatment of excavations are reviewed. Then rational methods normally used in the practice 
of design and analysis of surface and underground excavations are discussed. the role of numerical 
methods in the design process is also discussed, including commercial use (and non-commercial) 
codes based on finite element, finite difference, and other discrete elements. practical examples 
of design applications embankments and tunnels in civil engineering and mining are presented. It 
provides a comprehensive list of basic literature related to the various topics discussed in the course.
Content
 
1.- Elementary concepts of risk and reliability
2.- Tools required for risk quantification
3.- Structural reliability of components
4.- Structural reliability of systems
5.- Examples of application to geotechnical works
6.- Concluding remarks and perspectives
Instructors: 
Dr. Felipe Vázquez Guillén
Instituto de Ingeniería, UNAM
Instructors: 
Dr. Carlos Carranza-Torres
Civil Engineering Department
University of Minnesota, Duluth Campus
Dr. Gabriel Auvinet Guichard 
Instituto de Ingeniería, UNAM
Coordinator: Moisés Juárez Camarena
Coordinator: Valentín Castellanos Pedroza
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Content
 
1.- Introduction
2.- Review of fundamental concepts, including geo-mechanical rock and soil mechanics
3.- Design and stability analysis of surface excavations
4.- Design and stability analysis of underground excavations
5.- Numerical methods as tools for design and analysis in rock mechanics
6.- Examples Design and analysis of excavations
7.- Discussion
Soil stabilization with lime • Room Isla 6
Engineers present practice chemical enhancement technique clayey soil surface level, commonly 
known as soil stabilization by application of calcium oxide, CaO. Present the physical-chemical stabili-
zation effects induced by the clay materials in the natural state, as well as modifications to short and 
long term of mixtures. Identify limiting its application and benefits on projects in the field of the roads 
and geotechnics, such as building surfaces competent bearing during the construction of civil infra-
structure or as a structural part of pavements and work platforms, encouraging savings in construction 
time and costs, as well as allowing the use of natural materials from the site.
Content
 
1.- Introduction
2.- Definition of problem
3.- Stabilization targets
4.- General features
5.- Lime
6.- The effects of lime on clayey soils
7.- Factors to consider for the application of lime in the soil
8.- Soils with sulphates and stabilization
9.- Protocol soil stabilization with lime
10.- Construction methods and application recommendations
11.- Experiences of stabilizing clayey soils in the world
Instructors: 
Dr. Dallas Little Dr. Zenon Medina M.I. Edgar Mario Amaya
Coordinator: Eduardo Botero Jaramillo
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Gabriel Auvinet obtained a Doctor degree in En-
gineering from UNAM, Mexico in 1986. He is a 
Researcher at Instituto de Ingeniería (Institute of 
Engineering), UNAM (National Autonomous Uni-
versity of Mexico) and Faculty member of UNAM 
Postgraduate program. He was a guest Professor 
in the French Universities of Grenoble (1986), 
Nancy (1993-1994) and Clermont (2003-2004). 
He has directed a large number of professional, 
master and doctoral theses and is author of 367 
papers in Journals and National and Internation-
al Conferences and 248 research reports. He is 
presently Head of the Geotechnical Computing 
Laboratory of Institute of Engineering, UNAM. He 
has dedicated his research work to Soil Mechan-
ics with emphasis on special foundations and 
tunnels in consolidating soft soils. Simultaneous-
ly, he has developed new techniques for appli-
cation of probabilistic and geostatistical methods 
in Civil Engineering. He has been involved as a 
consultant in many large projects in Mexico, Cen-
tral and South America and Europe.
He performed geostatistical and geomechanical 
analyses for the design of award-winning Ri-
on-Antirion bridge foundation in Greece. Profes-
sor Auvinet has been President of the Mexican 
Society for Soil Mechanics (SMIG, 1992-1993) 
and Vice President for North America of Inter-
national Society for Soil Mechanics and Geo-
technical Engineering (ISSMGE, 2009-2013). He 
has received a number of teaching and research 
awards in Mexico, France and South America. 
From 2001 to 2009 he chaired ISSMGE’s Techni-
cal Committee TC36: “Foundation Engineering in 
difficult soft soils conditions”. In 2002 he deliv-
ered the Sixteenth “Nabor Carrillo” Lecture: “Un-
certainty in Geotechnical Engineering”.
He is a member of the Mexican Science Acade-
my, and National Engineering Academy of Mex-
ico. In 2015, He received a Doctor Honoris Causa 
degree from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. 
Argentina. He is author of the updated version 
(2017) of the internationally known book “The 
subsoil of Mexico City”.
Gabriel Auvinet Guichard
The 9th Arthur Casagrande Lecture
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Abstract
Many large cities such as Tokyo, Bangkok, Río 
de Janeiro, Recife, Bogota and, of course, Mexico 
City, to name only a few, were built and are still 
being developed on soft soils. In many cases, 
these cities also experience regional subsidence 
induced by pumping of groundwater from deep 
local aquifers. Among the sources of uncertainty 
prevailing in the geotechnical characterization 
of these sites, soil properties spatial variability 
is one of the most difficult to deal with since 
the associated uncertainty cannot be eliminat-
ed only by improving laboratory and fieldtesting 
techniques. For an accurate evaluation of the 
subsoil conditions, spatial variations of the soil 
profile and mechanical properties together with 
the groundwater conditions must be assessed 
by performing a sufficient number of soil ex-
plorations, processing a generally large amount 
of data and developing either deterministic or 
probabilistic models of these variations. The 
techniques available to develop such models 
and some difficulties encountered to implement 
them are examined in this lecture.
Some geotechnical analysis and design methods 
that take into account soft soils spatial variations 
are also reviewed together with constructions 
techniques aimed at mitigating consequences of 
soil variability.
The above considerations are illustrated with 
reference to Mexico City’s highly compressible 
volcanic lacustrine clays. Models of the spatial 
variability of these materials developed over the 
years for different projects using traditional and 
geostatistical techniques are presented. Some 
of the geotechnical analysis and construction 
methods used by geotechnical engineers to deal 
with soil spatial variability in this megacity once 
called by Terzaghi “the paradise of soil mechan-
ics”, are also discussed.
Monday 18th
Hour: 8:45 - 10:15
Room: Miramar
Presentationof the Lecturer. 
Efraín Ovando-Shelley. 7 min
Geotechnical engineering in spatially variable soft soils. The case of Mexico 
City. The 9th Arthur Casagrande Lecture
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Plenary Lectures
ISSMGE President
Charles W.W. Ng
Invited Lecturer
Dr Charles W.W. Ng is currently the CLP Holdings 
Professor of Sustainability, Chair Professor in the 
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineer-
ing and Associate Vice-President for Research 
and Development at the Hong Kong University of 
Science and Technology (HKUST). He is the Pres-
ident of International Society for Soil Mechanics 
and Geotechnical Engineering (2017-2021).
Professor Ng earned his PhD degree from the 
University of Bristol, UK in 1993. After carrying 
out a period of post-doctoral research at the Uni-
versity of Cambridge between 1993 and 1995, 
he returned to Hong Kong and joined HKUST as 
Assistant Professor in 1995 and rose through the 
ranks to become Chair Professor in 2011. Pro-
fessor Ng was elected an Overseas Fellow from 
Churchill College, Cambridge University, in 2005 
and was also elected as a Changjiang Scholar 
(Chair Professor in Geotechnical Engineering) by
the Ministry of Education in China in 2010. He is 
Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the 
American Society of Civil Engineers, the Hong 
Kong Institution of Engineers and the Hong Kong 
Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Currently, he is an Associate Editor of the Canadi-
an Geotechnical Journal.
Professor Ng has published some 320 SCI journal 
articles and 250 conference papers and deliv-
ered more than 50 keynotes and state-of-theart
reports in 6 continents. He is the main author of 
two reference books:
(i) Soil-structure Engineering of Deep Founda-
tions, Excavations and Tunnels by Thomas Tel-
ford, (ii) Advanced Unsaturated Soil Mechanics 
and Engineering, and (iii) Plant-Soil slope Inter-
action by Taylor & Francis. He has received many 
awards including the 2017 Telford Premium Prize
from the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK, the 
Henry Adams Award from the Institution of 
Structural Engineers, UK, the first Tan Swan Beng 
Award from the Southeast Asian Geotechnical 
Society, and the R. M. Quigley Award from the 
Canadian Geotechnical Society three times for 
his three best papers published in 2007, 2012 
& 2016.
Interplay between ecology and unsaturated 
soil mechanics for bioengineered landfill 
covers and slopes
Monday 18th
Hour: 12:45 -13:45
Room: Miramar
Abstract
The negative impact of climate change calls 
for additional sustainable and environmental-
ly friendly techniques to be developed for the 
improvement of the engineering performance 
of civil infrastructure, such as landfill covers and 
slopes. Bioengineering using vegetation can be 
considered and promoted as a low-cost, aes-
thetically pleasant solution for greening landfill 
covers and improving shallow slope stabilisation. 
The mechanical effects of vegetation as soil re-
inforcement have been extensively studied, but 
the hydrological effects of vegetation on soil 
shear strength and water permeability are un-
clear. This study therefore presents an interdisci-
plinary research programme consisting of labora-
tory and field tests and centrifuge modelling. The 
programme explores the hydrological effects of 
plants on the performance of final landfill covers 
and slope stabilisation. Results show that suc-
tion induced by plants under a novel vegetated 
three-layer landfill cover is preserved better than 
that under a bare cover even after an extreme 
rainfall event with a return period of greater than 
1000 years in Hong Kong. The laboratory tests 
and field trials demonstrate that the vegetated 
three-layer landfill cover system using recycled 
concrete can effectively minimise percolation at 
humid climate even without a geomembrane. 
Novel artificial root systems are developed for 
the centrifuge model tests. Heart-shaped roots 
have stronger pullout resistance and higher pre-
served suction (hence higher soil shear strength) 
compared with tap- or plate-shaped roots. The 
heart-shaped root architecture is thus the most 
effective type in producing stabilisation effects 
on slopes.
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CAPG Session
Geoeducation for the Future
The face of education is changing worldwide, and geo-education is no exception. In addition, 
the availability of both knowledge and data is on the increase. The main objective of the CAPG 
(Corporate Associates Presidential Group) plenary session is to explore what are the skills required by 
geomechanics professionals in the next 2-3 decades from the perspective of different stakeholders 
(academia, research, industry, consulting, contractors, asset owners, etc.).
Cochair
Hugo Acosta Martinez 
Juan Paulín Aguirre
Soletanche-Bachy
Mexico
Juan de Dios Alemán
Gerencia de Estudios de Ingeniería Civil 
CFE
Mexico
Daniela Pollack 
University of Chile
Chile
Zenón Medina Cetina 
Texas A&M, University
USA
J. Carlos Santamarina
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Saudi Arabia
Tuesday 19th
Hour: 12:15 - 13:15
Room: Miramar
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History and Future of industry/academia partnership Session
This session will include a combination of brief presentations and discussion panel with participation 
of recognized international specialists. Several topics will be addressed, including: description of some 
research projects in international cooperation, stiffness evaluation of calcareous soils; Practitioners vs. 
Academics approach – some examples, large diameter piles under lateral loading, the perspective 
of our Human Resources (actual industrial revolution, digital transition, IA, innovation and R&D), how 
should we imagine new ways to connect with universities and their environment to anticipate and 
take advantage of the changes that still await our sector, challenges and opportunities. The impor-
tance of collaboration between industry and academic to foster higher value projects.
Cochairs
Mary Ellen Large and Juan Paulín
Mary Ellen Large
DFI
(USA)
Tugce Baser
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
(USA)
Michel Coudry
Soletanche Bachy 
(France)
Shin-Tower Wang
Ensoft, Inc./Lymon C. 
Reese & Associates 
(USA)
William Van Impe
AGE advanced 
geo-engineering
(Belgium)
Manuel Saez Prieto
Vinci Construction
(Mexico)
Francisco Ciruela 
Ochoa
ARUP
(UK)
Esteban Astudillo
de la Vega
SMIE
(Mexico)
Part 1 
Tuesday 19th
Hour: 8:15-9:45 
Room: Miramar
Part 2 
Wednesday 20th
Hour: 8:15-9:45 
Room: Miramar
Alejo Sfriso
SRK
(Argentina)
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Cultural Lecture
Construction elements of the Mayan area.
Archaeological and ethnographic evidences
Tomás Pérez Suárez is an archaeologist graduated from the National School of Anthropology and 
History. He has a master’s degree in Mesoamerican Studies from the School of Philosophy and Letters, 
UNAM. He is a researcher and coordinator of the Center for Mayan Studies in the Institute of Philolog-
ical Research, UNAM. He has participated in a number of curatorial activities in Mexico, Venice, Sao 
Paulo, Paris, and Liverpool. He is the author of dozens of specialized texts about the Mayan culture and 
the Mexican Archaeology. He has been a lecturer in Mexico, Guatemala, Roma, and Japan.
Abstract
As in any society, the everyday life of the Mayan people varied according to the rank of each indi-
vidual. They all fulfilled a specific function in the maintenance of the economic and political order, 
which supported the
prevailing social and religious ideology in each period. Gender, age, rural or urban residence, and 
occupation were also factors determining differences in the everyday life of each person and the 
space built and inhabited. The state cities of the Mayan area, with their spacious squares, great 
temples, sumptuous palaces, courts for ballgame, altars, and outstanding roadways, also included 
buildings related with the storage and administration of tributes: payments in kind that the working 
class delivered to the state for their maintenance. On the other hand, the rurallandscape, producer of 
food and raw materials, was also subject of constructive modifications facilitating the exploitation of 
renewable and non-renewable resources that largely met the material needs of the urban population.
Tomás Pérez Suárez
Archaeologist
Wednesday 20th
Hour: 12:15 -13:15
Room: Miramar
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Presentation of publications
Manual de Diseño de Obras Civiles de la 
Comisión Federal de Electricidad
Participants
Manuel Mendoza 
Instituto de Ingeniería UNAM
Efraín Ovando-Shelley
Instituto de Ingeniería UNAM
Juan de Dios Alemán
Gerencia de Estudios de Ingeniería Civil, CFE
Description
23 Volumes available on Amazon.com. This new edition of 
the Handbook that was prepared by the CFE and Instituto 
de Ingeniería UNAM, provides the design guidelines of all 
civil engineering works. Theoretical and practical elements 
of engineering are combined in the fields of Hydrotechnics, 
Geotechnics and Structures. ISBN 978-607-97036-1-5
Tuesday 19th
Hour: 18:30 – 19:30
Room: Miramar 3 & 4
Control, tratamiento y mejoramiento de suelos
Participants
Walter Paniagua
Pilotec
Alberto Cuevas
Ingenieros Cuevas
David Hall
Tracsa
Manuel Mendoza
Instituto de Ingenieria UNAM
José Luis Rangel
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
Ruben Cuadrado
Keller
Enmanuel Carvajal
Keller
Norma Patricia Lopez Acosta
Instituto de Ingeniería UNAM
Monday 18th
Hour: 18:30 – 19:30
Room: Miramar 3 & 4
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Special session young geotechnical engineers
Bright Spark Lectures
Cochair
Lucy Wu,Tim Newson, Alejo Sfriso, Mauro Sottile
Carlos Omar Vargas Moreno
(Mexico)
Analysis and seismic design of tailings dams and liquefaction 
assessment.
Abstract
The increasing of the mining industry in Latin America, combined 
with the high seismic conditions of some regions, represents a major 
challenge for geotechnical engineers in relation to the mining waste 
disposal design. Earthquakes are one of the principal causes of failure 
in this kind of structures, which are mainly attributed to liquefaction, 
whose consequences have been catastrophic such as cases history 
of Mochikoshi Tailings dams, Japan (1978); Cerro Negro and El Cobre, 
Chile (1965) and Amatista, Nazca, Peru (1996). Therefore, one of the 
main aspects in the seismic design of these structures is related to the 
possible liquefaction of the tailings, due to the characteristics of these 
materials. This paper presents the design criteria, geotechnical charac-
terization and the seismic stability assessment of a tailings dam. This 
work is presented from practice approach, with emphasis on consid-
erations that involved the dynamic analysis of a project at the design 
stage and the evaluation of liquefaction in this structure. The analysis 
results, interpretation and conclusions are presented based in local and 
international guidelines.
Monday 18th
Hour: 17:00-18:30
Room: Isla 3 & 4
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Marlisio Oliveira Cecilio Junior
(Brazil)
Personal Account on Reliability Analyses, from a Young Geotech-
nical Engineer. 
Tugce Baser
(Canada/USA)
Thermal Energy Storage in Borehole Arrays Installed in Unsatu-
rated Soils.
Abstract
The use of deterministic stability analyses for geotechnical works is still 
common practice. Such analyses consider a single set of input parame-
ters and therefore a single result is taken as definitive and compared to 
limits established by codes. However, a deterministic stability assess-
ment taken as satisfactory may be associated with a probability of fail-
ure considered as high. This is why one approach should not suppress 
the other, they should rather be complementary. A similar comment 
can be made for the probability of failure, while a small value may not 
be accepted within a densely occupied urban scenario and a high value 
may be considered satisfactory within an uninhabited area. This is why 
the risk should also be evaluated rather than solely the probability 
of failure. Discussions concerning the risk of failure instead of mere 
deterministic approaches have significant importance, bearing in mind 
either insurance needs or the development of projects that are both 
more reliable and cost-effective.
Abstract
In the last decades, much attention has been given to provide sus-
tainable solutions for energy-related needs of society due to the in-
crease in energy demands with growing population associated with 
economic development. This includes using the subsurface as thermal 
energy resources such as in Borehole Thermal Energy Storage (BTES) 
systems, an innovative approach to provide heating and cooling of the 
buildings through geothermal heat exchangers installed in the sub-
surface. This study highlights on the role of vadose zone on coupled 
thermo-hydraulic response of a BTES system specifically focusing on 
how the coupled heat transfer and water flow processes and coupled 
thermo-hydraulic constitutive properties of soils may be exploited to 
enhance heat injection and heat retention in an array of geothermal 
borehole heat exchangers. The results from laboratory and field ex-
periments and numerical simulations, which can crucially contribute 
to the sustainable thermal energy strategies and the design, confirm 
the good performance of BTES system in the vadose zone. Further, 
economic and environmental impacts of BTES systems were evaluated 
using an eco-efficiency analysis, a Life Cycle Assessment approach. The 
results indicate that BTES systems can efficiently reduce energy con-
sumption and CO2 emissions which make these systems more feasible 
and environmentally friendly.
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Special session women in geotechnical engineering
Cochair
Mary Ellen Large, Sissy Nikolau and Norma Patricia López Acosta
Norma Patricia 
López Acosta
3 min
Opening Remarks.
Sissy Nikolau 
30 min
Keynote Lecture: Diversity as a Driver of Innovation: 
The Mexico City Paradigm. 
Abstract
Innovation and resourcefulness are necessary to address the multi-faceted design and construction 
challenges that Mexico City presents, as one of the most adverse geologic and tectonic environments 
on earth. As these challenges grow with the increasing demand for taller buildings and deeper 
basements, so does the need to apply cutting-edge technologies and performance-based design phi-
losophy to make this mega-city and its exponentially increasing population resilient against multiple 
hazards. Post-1985, the real-life test of the 2017 Puebla-Morelos earthquake proved that innovative 
designs suffered minimal or no damage, and their functionality was not interrupted. The speaker will 
present key geoseismic features of several iconic CDMX high-rise buildings from her regional 20-year 
practicing experience. As a living proof of resilient performance, these examples enhance the confi-
dence of the stakeholders and public for the engineering and technologies used. The Mexico City par-
adigm offers invaluable geotechnics lessons that can be used to shift our mindset to decision-making 
strategies for the megacities of the future. However, the benefits of advancing the state of practice 
often meet resistance that will be discussed from both a technical and a diversity perspective. Al-
though it is obvious that we limit what problems we can solve when we limit who can contribute, 
being different – whether by gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, personal beliefs – has been an 
added roadblock in the path to innovation in a quite homogeneous male-dominated professional set-
ting. The speaker will share experiences, anecdotes, and conscious efforts to break stereotypes in our 
industry, Ways to deal with the real fear of criticism, rejection and failure that “different” engineers 
often have will be discussed, setting the tone for the panel discussion to follow.
Monday 18th
Hour: 17:00-18:30
Room: Miramar 1
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WiDF Presentation
Mary Ellen Large. 10 min
Panel Introductions (6 panelists). 
12 min
Panel Questions. 
26 min
Open Questions by Audience. 
9 min
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Session 1 Laboratory and in situ testing • Room Miramar 2
10:45-12:1515:00-16:30
Keynote Lecture: Mechanical and hydraulic parameters 
of tailings, field and laboratory Techniques.
Osvaldo Flores. 30 min
Cochairs: Heraldo Luis Giacheti (Brazil), Iván Rivera (Canada), Osvaldo Flores (Mexico)
Interpretación de Señales Usando Transformadas Wavelet Continuas.
Fernandez-Lavin Alfonso, Ovando-Shelley Efraín. 15 min
Conductividad Hidráulica en Campo y Laboratorio: Desempeño de Suelos 
Finos en Aplicación Ambiental. 
Marcos Musso, Alfonso Flaquer, Gonzalo Bango. Leonardo Leite, 
Agustín Menta. 15 min
Characterization of intermediate and structured soils with a CPT-interface 
response soil classification framework . 
Gregory Hebeler, Alejandro Martínez, David Frost, Ethan Cargill. 15 min
Questions. 15 min
Impact of Salinity Level in Pore Fluid on the Compressibility of Champlain 
Sea Clay. 
Jinyuan Liu, Ali Ahmad. 15 min 
Soil dynamic stiffness and wave velocity measurement through dynamic 
cone penetrometer and wave analysis. 
Quoc Anh Tran, Miguel Angel Benz Navarrete, Pierre Breul, Bastien Chevalier y 
Philippe Moustan. 15 min 
Monotonic shear loading response of sand-silt mixtures from direct simple 
shear tests. 
Achala Soysa, Dharma Wijewickreme. 15 min
Cyclic Response of Artificially Cemented Soils. 
Jorge Arturo Mendoza Ulloa, Domenico Lombardi, Syed Ahmad. 15 min
Compressibility and dynamic properties of diatomaceous soils from 
Mejillones, Chile. 
Ghio Arenaldi-Perisic, Carlos Ovalle, Antonio Barrios. 15 min
Questions. 15 min
Monday 18th
Technical Sessions
17:00-18:30 Assessment of the geo-mechanical properties of Mojave Mars Simulant-1 
(MMS-1) Soil. 
Takuro Fujikawa, Timothy Newson, Aly Ahmed, and Muhammad Safdar. 15 min
Método de Filtrado con Wavelet para el Análisis de Señales. 
Fernandez-Lavin Alfonso, Ovando-Shelley Efrain. 15 min
Permeability Variation Analysis in the Raising Steps of Tailings Deposits. 
Helena Paula Nierwinski, Marcelo Heidemann, Edgar Odebrecht y Amanda 
ReusPérside da Rosa Siviero. 15 min
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Cochairs: Alejandro Martínez Vela (USA), Celestino Valle Molina (Mexico), Marcio de Souza Soarez de 
Almeida (Brazil), Marcos Orozco Calderón (Mexico)
Session 2 Analytical and Physical modelling in geotechnics • Room Isla 3 & 4
10:45-12:15
17:00-18:30
Keynote Lecture: Centrifuge Technology for Characteriza-
tion of Expansive Clays. 
Jorge Zornberg. 35 min
Comparison of analyses of an active slide in tropical soil by two-
dimensional and quasi-three-dimensional methods. 
Leonardo De Bona Becker, Ana Paula Fonseca and Willy Alvarenga Lacerda. 
20 min
Experimental Behavior of a Reinforced Concrete Pile During Liquefaction-
Induced Lateral Spreading. 
Ahmed Ebeido, Ahmed Elgamal. 20 min
Questions. 10 min
Opening. 5 minMonday 18th
15:00-16:30 Using 3D printing techniques to build artificial porous media. 
Luan Carlos de Sena Monteiro Ozelim, Andre Luis Brasil Cavalcante. 20 min
Simulation of a weak layered profile using geotechnical centrifuge. 
Cristian Yair Soriano, Renan Bezerra de Andrade; Samuel Felipe Mollepaza; 
Márcio de Souza Soares de Almeida; Maria Cascão Ferreira de Almeida; José 
Renato Moreira da Silva de Oliveira; Pablo Cesar Trejo Noreña. 20 min
Application of a physical model of soil-structure interaction in static 
conditions. 
Ricardo Campos Campos, Ricardo Luis Campos Mondragón. 20 min
Granular Mechanics of the Shear Strength of Normally Consolidated Clays. 
Calixtro Yanqui. 20 min
Questions. 5 min
Preconsolidation Pressure of Post-Glacial Soft Clay and Silt Deposits. 
Gholamreza Mesri, Thierno Kane. 15 min
Evaluación comparativa del módulo dinámico y resiliente en las arcillas 
del ex lago de Texcoco. 
Tomás Romero Olán, Alexandra Ossa López, Mario Flores Guzmán. 15 min
Questions. 15 min
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Session 3 Numerical modelling in geotechnics • Room Isla 5 & 6
10:45-12:15
15:00-16:30
Keynote Lecture: Implementation, verification and vali-
dation of bounding surface constitutive models for site 
response analysis. 
Pedro Arduino. 40 min
Panel discussion on numerical modelling of tailings. 
Pedro Arduino, Jose Luis Rangel, Alejo Sfriso, Diego Manzanal. 40 min.
Presentation of the session and the Keynote speaker. 10 min
Presentation of the session. 5 min
Geomechanical Characterization of MICP-Treated Soils. 
Ronak Mehrabi, Kamelia Atefi-Monfared. 25 min
Reliability-Based Design of an Anchor-Supported Excavation. 
Osvaldo Nicolás Ledesma, William Gibson, Alejo Oscar Sfriso. 20 min
3D Numerical modeling for analyses of pumping tests and its application 
on pumping well systems design. 
Norma Patricia López Acosta, Mónica Martínez-Lázaro y José Alfredo Promotor. 
20 min
Geotechnical design and structural evaluation of end-bearing piles 
subjected to a double consolidation process. 
Carlos Eduardo Rodríguez Romero, Gabriel Auvinet Guichard. 20 min
Monday 18th
17:00-18:30 Presentation of the session. 5 min
A family of constitutive models implemented in PLAXIS to simulate 
cemented mine backfill. 
Mauro G. Sottile, Nicolás A. Labanda, Iñaki García Mendive, Osvaldo N. 
Ledesma y Alejo O. Sfriso. 25 min
Using DEM to study the behavior of granular soils under cyclic shear 
loading. 
Lino Manjarrez, Lianyang Zhang. 20 min
Liquefaction analysis of undrained cyclic tests by calibration of 
constitutive models. 
Marcos García García, Diego Manzanal y Enmanuel Carvajal Díaz. 20 min
Optimization of a Nuclear Reactor Foundation Based on Field Geotechnical 
Testing and Numerical Modeling. 
Mauro Giuliano Sottile, Osvaldo Nicolás Ledesma Alejo Oscar Sfriso. 20 min
Cochairs: Alejo Sfriso (Argentina), José Luis Rangel Núñez (Mexico), Richard Wan (Canada)
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Session 4 Unsaturated soils • Room Isla 1 & 2
10:45-12:15
15:00-16:30
17:00-18:30
Keynote Lecture: Assembling a Unified Soil Mechanics 
Theory. 
Eduardo Rojas. 70 min
An effective stress framework for clayey geomaterials including a chemi-
cal-dependent variable. 
Angelica Tuttolomondo , Alessio Ferrari and Lyesse Laloui. 15 min
Effect of unsaturated soil zone on slope stability. 
Jose Alfredo Promotor , Norma Patricia López Acosta. 15 min
Back-analysis of an Infinite Unsaturated Soil Slope using a Bayesian 
Framework. 
Mauricio Garcia-Feria, Julio E. Colmenares. 15 min
Role of Suction on the Seismic Compression of Unsaturated Sand under 
Partially Drained Conditions. 
John S. McCartney, Wenyong Rong. 15 min
Suction stress characteristic curve for compacted silty sand from 
suction-controlled triaxial testing. 
Ujwalkumar Patil, Laureano Hoyos, Anand Puppala, Surya S. C Congress and 
Aritra Banerjee. 15 min
Questions. 15 min
Influencia de las variaciones de contenido de agua en la deformación 
permanente de suelos de subrasante o terraplén. 
Natalia Pérez García, Paul Garnica Anguas. 15 min
Comportamiento Volumétrico de un Suelo no Saturado Derivado de Ceni-
zas Volcánicas del Departamento del Cauca, Colombia. 
Ana María Latorre Balaguera, Carol Andrea Murillo Feo, José Andrés Cruz 
Wilches. 15 min
Swell characterization of expansive clays from Comodoro Rivadavia - 
Argentine. 
Manzanal Diego, Sandra Orlandi, Ezequiel Miranda; Marco Robinson, Juan Cruz 
Barria. 15 min
Geotechnical mapping: susceptibility to Collapsible Soils, Expansive Soils, 
Erosive Soils, Dispersive Soils and Soft Soils, based on the Pedology of the 
city of Caruaru-Pernambuco/Brazil. 
Amanda Evelyn Barbosa de Aquino, Raiza Silva Bezerra and Silvio Romero de 
Melo Ferreira. 15 min
Questions. 15 min
Monday 18th
Cochairs: Alfredo Zepeda Garrido (Mexico), Eduardo Rojas González (Mexico), John McCartney (USA), 
Laureano R. Hoyos (USA/Colombia)
Opening. 5 min
Questions. 15 min
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Session 5 Soft Soils • Room Miramar 1
10:45-12:15
15:00-16:30
Keynote Lecture: Soft ground improvement: field and 
numerical studies. 
Márcio Almeida. 50 min
Analysis of the spatial distributionof the geotechnical properties of the 
subsoil northeast of Mexico City. 
Moisés Juárez Camarena, Gabriel Auvinet Guichard, Francisco Hernández Vizca-
rra, Marcos Edgardo Delgado Muñiz. 15 min
Assessment of the settlement and horizontal displacement of test em-
bankments with preloading, drains, and vacuum in the former Texcoco 
Lake, Mexico. 
Norma Patricia López Acosta, Víctor Manuel Pineda, Alejandra Liliana Espinosa, 
Manuel Jesús Mendoza-López, Miguel Rufiar and Raúl García. 15 min
Questions. 10 min
Efecto de Levantamiento del Terreno por Hinca de Pilotes en Suelos 
Blandos de Bogotá. 
Jorge Alberto Rodriguez Ordoñez, David Leonardo Quiros Carvajal. 13 min
Edificio con Cajón Hincado como Solución de Excavación en Suelos Blandos 
de Bogotá. 
Jorge Alberto Rodriguez Ordoñez, David Leonardo Quiros Carvajal. 12 min
Influencia de la plasticidad y la sobrecarga aplicada en los parámetros de 
consolidación de unos depósitos costeros del Sur de Veracruz. 
José Luis Gallegos Márquez, Daniel Martín Sánchez, Ignacio Lydio Carazo, 
Francisco Isidro Martinez Usero. 15 min
Multivariable geostatistical analysis of the geotechnical properties in the 
Mexico Valley subsoil. 
Marcos Edgardo Delgado Muñiz, Moisés Juárez Camarena, Gabriel Auvinet 
Guichard. 15 min
Comportamiento de un terraplén piloteado en un suelo muy blando del 
exlago de Texcoco. 
Manuel Jesús Mendoza López. 20 min
Questions. 15 min
Monday 18th
Cochairs: Jorge Alberto Rodríguez (Colombia), Manuel J. Mendoza López (Mexico)
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Session 6 Foundations and retaining structures • Room Miramar 3 & 4
10:45-12:15
15:00-16:30
17:00-18:30
Keynote Lecture: Laterally Loaded Pile Behavior at 
Soil-Rock-Impedance Contrast. 
Anne Lemnitzer. 30 min
Bearing Capacity of Eccentrically Loaded Surface Circular Foundation on 
Sand of Limited Thickness. 
Khaled Sobhan., Chittaranjan Patra. B. Sethy and Braja M. Das. 15 min
Undrained capacity of circular shallow foundations under combined VHMT 
loading. 
Pengpeng He, Tim Newson. 15 min
Altenative Piling Methods Chances for Technical and Economical Solutions. 
Franz-Werner Gerressen, Heiko Kopfmueller . 15 min
Questions. 15 min
Static response of a group of 13 piles tested simultaneously. 
Bength H. Fellenius, Mario A. Terceros Herrera, Mario Terceros, Arce Rainer 
Massarsch y Alessandro Mandolini. 15 min
Rock socketed micropiles for subway station improvement in Manhattan 
Schist. 
Chu Ho. 15 min
Underpinning and releveling of a building using control piles and sub-ex-
cavation. 
Norma Patricia López Acosta, Eduardo Martínez Hernández. 15 min
Effects of Detailing on the Behavior of Helical Pile-to-Foundation Connec-
tions. 
Sundar Chiluwal, Serhan Guner. 15 min
Geotechnical conditions in the Campana- Zárate industrial complex, 
Argentina. 
Mauro Codevilla, Alejo O. Sfriso. 15 min
Questions. 15 min
Static analysis of retention elements using piles and shotcrete. 
Ismael Martínez Gómez, Félix Sosa Contreras, Neftalí Sarmiento Solano. 15 min
Use and Abuse of Post-tensioned Anchors in Urban Areas. 
Alberto Cuevas Rivas, Walter I. Paniagua. 15 min
Monitoreo y modelación numérica de muro de contención de pilas ancla-
das en proyecto ubicado en Viña del Mar, Chile. 
Dennis Raddatz, Oscar Taiba. 15 min
Contenciones mediante micropilotes para excavaciones profundas en la 
zona metropolitana de Monterrey, Nuevo León. 
Miguel Sanchez Cuenca, Jorge Melo Ramírez y Enmanuel Carvajal Diaz. 15 min
Monday 18th
Cochairs: Jarbas Militizky (Brazil), Mary Ellen Large (USA), Walter Paniagua (Mexico)
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17:00-18:30
Room: Miramar 1
17:00-18:30
Tuesday 19th
Session 7 Excavations and tunnels • Room Isla 1 & 2
10:15-11:45
Keynote Lecture: Tunneling through the rock-soil 
interface. 
Werner Bilfinger. 40 min
Keynote Lecture: The Application of Dynamic Analyses 
for Testing of Non-Uniform Deep Foundations. 
Samuel G. Paikowsky. 30 min
Comportamiento de túneles construidos en suelos rigidos ante carga 
sismica. 
Juan Manuel Mayoral, Mauricio Alcaráz, Daniel de la Rosa. 20 min
Analysis of short term soil-tunnel lining interaction. 
Armando Juárez Orta, Marco Pérez Angeles, Gabriel Auvinet Guichard. 20 min
Questions. 5 min
Opening. 5 min
Deep foundation in deposits of alluvial-lacustrine origin. 
Alberto Cuevas Rivas, Lorena Vega Muñoz y Ernesto Patiño Altamirano. 15 min
Wall Construction and Monitoring Program of Tiebacks Walls in a Shale 
Stratum. 
Lindsey Sebastian Bryson, Jorge Octavio Romaña Giraldo. 15 min
Diseño y construcción de una losa de cimentación de 57,000m2 en dos 
niveles para albergar un centro comercial, desplantado en estratos arcil-
losos deformables de la zona sur de la Ciudad de Mexico. 
Alonso Gabriel Lira Alvarez, German Estevez y Guillermo Clavellina Miller. 15 min
Questions. 15 min
Tuesday 19th
Cochairs: Andrés Marulanda Escobar (Colombia), Juan Jacobo Schmitter Martín del Campo (Mexico), 
Luis Guilherme de Mello (Brazil)
14:45-16:15 Opening. 5 min 
An analysis method for the effects of tunnelling on loaded non-displace-
ment piles. 
Andrea Franza, Alec M Marshall, Rafael Jimenez. 20 min
Diseño y construcción de una excavación a 50m de profundidad en la 
zona urbana de la Ciudad de México, mediante la técnica constructiva 
“Top Down”, para alojar 16 sótanos de estacionamiento. 
Alonso Gabriel Lira Álvarez, Uriel Herrera Gómez, Guillermo Clavellina Miller. 
15 min
Questions. 15 min
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Session 8 Offshore Geotechnics • Room Isla 3 & 4
10:15-11:45
Keynote Lecture: Foundation design in offshore carbon-
ate sediments–building on knowledge to address future 
challenges. 
Phillip Watson. 30 min
Reevaluation of Ultimate Axial Capacity. 
Robert F. Stevens, Catalina Cardona, Raul Nava Castro, Jose M. Lopez Chi. 15 min
Assessment of interaction diagrams for cyclic axial loads in offshore piles 
based on an effective stress method. A Gulf of Mexico case. 
Jose German Parra Rosales, Maria Jose Guevara Castillo. 15 min
Los suelos marinos de la Sonda de Campeche y Litoral Tabasco, Golfo de 
Mexico. 
Diego Cruz, Francisco Flores, Victor M. Taboada, and Antonio Ruvalcaba. 15 min
Questions. 15 min
Tuesday 19th
Cochairs: Diego Cruz Roque (Mexico), José Parra (Venezuela), Rachel Guerreiro Basilio Costa Genzani 
(Brazil), Victor M. Taboada Urtuzuástegui (USA)
16:45-18:15 Opening. 5 min 
Análisis numérico y analítico de la falla por sub-presión en lumbreras 
construidas en suelos. 
Juan Carlos Valenzuela, Edgar Montiel Gutiérrez, Alexandra Ossa López. 20 min
Geotechnical evaluation of displacements of a tunnel-shaft connection 
due to regional subsidence considering rigid and flexible coupling in 
structures projected in Mexico City difficult soft soil conditions using 3D 
numerical modeling. 
Jorge Bricio Guillén Guillén, Óscar Luna González, Carlos Omar Vargas Moreno, 
Raúl Bernal Luna. 20 min
Effects of the regional subsidence on tunnel-shaft connections, consider-
ing different construction procedures. 
Rodrigo Rodríguez Ramírez, Marco Pérez Angeles, Gabriel Auvinet Guichard. 
20 min
Diseño geotécnico de una obra subterranea en los suelos blandos del 
ex-Lago de Texcoco en la Ciudad de Mexico. 
Damián Vital Villaseñor, Enrique Bermúdez González, Ricardo Herìa Covarrubias. 
20 min.
Questions. 5 min
Tuesday 19th Geotechnical analysis and design of tunnel shafts in difficult soft soil 
conditions at Mexico City. 
Carlos Omar Vargas Moreno, Raúl Bernal Luna, Jorge Bricio Guillén Guillén y 
Oscar Luna González. 20 min
Criterios de diseño para determinar factores de seguridad en lumbreras 
construidas con el procedimiento constructivo de “lumbreras flotadas” en 
suelos blandos. 
María Elena Acevedo Valle, Mario Arturo Aguilar Téllez. 20 min.
Questions. 5 min
14:45-16:15
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Tuesday 19th
Keynote Lecture: Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations 
State of the Art. 
Per Magnus Sparrevik.30 min
Comparación de envolventes de ruptura de anclas a succión, aplicadas a 
infraestructura de energía eólica. 
Luisa N. Equihua-Anguiano , Kittia Arizmendi-López y Marcos Orozco-Calderón. 
15 min
Aspectos temáticos para calcular rutas de líneas de ductos marinas. 
Marcos Orozco-Calderón, Luisa Nicté Equihua-Anguiano, Javier Sánchez-Monge. 
15 min
Jet Grouting applications for the soil reinforcement under caisson quay 
walls and mitigation of seismic effects in Gibraltar. 
Enrique Tovar Atapuerca, Miguel Sánchez Cuenca y Enmanuel Carvajal Díaz. 15 
min
Questions. 15 min
Session 9 Transportation Geotechnics • Room Isla 5 & 6
10:15-11:45
Keynote Lecture: Sustainable Pavement Foundations 
with Chemically Stabilized Quarry By-products. 
Erol Tutumluer. 50 min
Performance of Geogrid Reinforced Embankment Slopes under Flooding 
and Scour: A Case Study. 
Ram Kasturi, Ajay Shastri, Ram Tirumala. 15 min
Performance evaluation of a modified UIUC model with the consideration 
of principal stress axis rotation. 
Tianshu Lin, Tatsuya Ishikawa, Tetsuya Tokoro, Bin Luo, Erol Tutumluer. 15 min
Questions. 10 min
Tuesday 19th
Cochairs: Alexandra Ossa López (Mexico), Gloria Beltrán Calvo (Colombia), Luis Guillermo Loria Salazar 
(Costa Rica), Paul Garnica Anguas (Mexico)
14:45-16:15 Recomendación para determinar curvas de compactación Proctor estándar 
utilizando el equipo giratorio. 
Natalia Pérez García, Paul Garnica Anguas y Luis Alberto Bautista. 20 min
RAMCODES Method for Compacted Soil Design: Development and 
Applications. 
Freddy J. Sánchez-Leal. 20 min
Influence of the properties of a soft soil subgrade subject to a surcharge 
preloading improvement on the design of the pavements of runways and 
taxiways. 
Alexandra Ossa Lopez, Richard Josephia Santos Mario Flores Guzman. 20 min
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Session 10 Natural Hazards • Room Miramar 1
10:15-11:45
Keynote Lecture: Tropical Climate Condition and Disas-
ters due to Landslides. 
Marcos Massao Futai. 45 min
Effect of a DEM in the estimation of coherence and unwrapped phase 
InSAR for landslides detection. 
Nixon Alexander Correa-Muñoz, Kevin Tansey, Carol Andrea Murillo-Feo. 10 min
Land Subsidence and associated ground fracturing in urban areas. Study 
cases in central Mexico. 
Dora Carreon-Freyre, Mariano Cerca, Raul Gutierrez-Calderon, Carlos Alcantara-
-Duran, Tazio Strozzi, Pietro Teatini. 10 min
Pluviometric Thresholds Application to Predict Slope Failures Along BR-
376 Highway, in the state of Paraná - Brazil. 
Milena Arruda Silva, Isabel Cristina Salah, Andrés Miguel González Acevedo, 
Liamara Paglia Sestrem, Vitor Pereira Faro, Alessander C. Morales Kormann, 
Larissa de Brum Passini. 10 min
Questions. 15 min
Tuesday 19th
Cochairs: Hernán Eduardo Martínez Carvajal (Colombia), Juan Félix Rodríguez (Brazil), Renato Pinto da 
Cunha (Brazil), Roberto Terzariol (Argentina)
16:45-18-15 Resistencia al daño inducido por humedad en pavimentos purificadores 
de aire. 
Maribel Trujillo Valladolid, Alexandra Ossa López. 20 min
Estudo da viabilidade do uso de Fibras Naturais como, reforço de solos. 
Hellen Evenyn Fonseca da Silva, Caio Soares Camargos, Matheus Viana de 
Souza; Ivonne Alejandra Maria Gutiérrez Góngora. 20 min
Análisis Racional de Diseño y Desempeño de Pavimentos con Capas de 
Suelos Mejorados con Cal. 
Washington Peres Núñez, Leonardo Behak. 20 min.
Comparación de los ensayos de Penetrómetro de Cono Dinámico de 
Energía Variable PANDA® ensayo de Placa de Carga Estática y Dinámica. 
Sebastián López Retamales, Miguel Benz. 20 min
Questions. 10 min
14:45-16:15
Keynote Lecture: Developments in Landslide Analysis 
Methodologies. 
Murray Fredlund. 45 min
Tuesday 19th
Estudio de la condición funcional y diagnóstico condición estructural de 
pavimentos a nivel de proyecto: Parte 1. 
Guillermo Thenoux, Paul Garnica. 20 min
Questions. 10 min
14:45-16:15
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Session 11 Embankments and tailings dams • Room Miramar 2
10:15-11:45
14:45-16:15
Keynote Lecture: Risk assessment and rehabilitation of 
earth dams in Antioquia, Colombia.
Manuel R. Villarraga. 30 min
Keynote Lecture: Dam engineering in Brazil. 
Alberto Sayao. 30 min
Geological-geotechnical investigation of an old tailings dam from a mine 
in the Peruvian highlands. 
Christ Jesus Barriga Paria, Eleonardo Lucas Pereira, Jorge Pantaleon Barriga 
Gamarra, María Isabel Martínez. 15 min
Fragility curves of flood protection levees subject to overtopping. 
Vázquez-Guillén Felipe, Auvinet Gabriel. 15 min
La norma mexicana de Operación Segura de Presas. Descripción y 
primeros resultados. 
Rodrigo Murillo Fernández, Víctor Hugo Alcocer Yamanaka. 15 min
Questions. 15 min
Experiencias en el desarrollo de la instrumentación geotécnica y del 
método observacional en las grandes presas construidas para generación 
hidroeléctrica en México y la factibilidad de implementarse en presas de 
relaves mineros (residuos mineros). 
Antonio Vargas Camacho. 15 min
Efectos de los sismos de septiembre 7 y 19 de 2017 en grandes presas en 
México. 
Rodrigo Murillo Fernández, Víctor Hugo Alcocer Yamanaka, Víctor J. Bourguett 
Ortiz. 15 min
Control de la densidad relativa en terraplenes refulados. 
Miguel Stanichevsky Sryvalin, Tatiana Stanichevsky O. 15 min
Questions. 15 min
Tuesday 19th
Tuesday 19th
14:45-16:15
Cochairs: Juan de Dios Alemán Velásquez (Mexico), Ramón Verdugo (Chile), Rolando Vega Beirute 
(Costa Rica)
Riesgo de erosión de suelo en una microcuenca de uso agrícola en Colom-
bia. 
Laura Jiménez Arcia, Alba Nury Gallego Hernández; Hernán Eduardo Martínez. 
10 min
Probabilistic Analysis of Mine Slope Stability. 
Andrea Nascimento Vecci, Alberto Sampaio Ferraz Jardim Sayão. 10 min
Questions. 15 min
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Session 12 Soils Dynamics and earthquake engineering • Room Miramar 3 & 4
10:15-11:45
Keynote Lecture: Nonlinear Dynamic Analyses of Austri-
an Dam in the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. 
Ross Boulanger. 30 min
Cyclic re-liquefaction behavior of a sand. 
Abouzar Sadrekarimi. 15 min
Liquefaction Potential of Cementing Tailing Backfill: Shaking Table Test 
Results. 
Imad Alainachi, Mamadou Fall. 15 min
Liquefaction Mitigation Potential of Prefabricated Vertical Drains from 
Large- Scale Laminar Shear Box Testing. 
Kyle M. Rollins, Caleb Oakes, Travis Meservy. 15 min 
Questions. 15 min
Tuesday 19th
Cochairs: Adrián Rodríguez Marek (USA), Gonzalo Montalva (Chile), Raúl Aguilar Becerril (Mexico)
16:45-18:15 Performance of HDPE pipes under High Loads. 
Claudio Roman, Ignacio Atucha, Nicolás Echeverria. 15 min
New analytical solution for embankments, considering a rigid lower 
boundary. 
Ana Karen Fuentes Flores, Marco Pérez Ángeles, Gabriel Auvinet Guichard. 
15 min
Estudio del comportamiento de una presa en tierra durante desembalse 
rápido. Caso: Presa Mancilla en Colombia. 
German Tapia, Gloria Beltrán. 15 min
Panel de Discusión: Criterios para selección de parámetros sísmicos para 
diseño. 
Ing. Roberto Villarraga, Dr. Alberto Sayao, Dr. Ramón Verdugo, Rolando Vega, 
Juan de Dios Alemán. 30 min
Questions. 15 min
14:45-16:15 Comportamiento dinámico de un sistema de cimentación a base de pilas 
coladas in situ con anomalías. 
María Clara Madrigal Madrigal, Luis Osorio Flores, César Rosales Morán, Eduardo 
Botero Jaramillo, Efraín Ovando Shelley. 15 min
Parametric Study on the Seismic Response of Two Contrasting Populated 
Slopes in Lima, Peru. 
Carlos Eduardo Gonzales Trujillo, Toru Sekiguchi, Shoichi Nakai. 15 min
Comportamiento sísmico de un talud reforzado localizado en el poniente 
de la Ciudad de Mexico. 
Juan Manuel Mayoral, Daniel de la Rosa. 15 min
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14:45-16:15 Probabilistic Seismic-Induced Settlements at the Port of Long Beach using 
CPT-based methods. 
Jaime A. Mercado, Luis G. Arboleda-Monsalve. 15 min 
Questions. 15 min
16:45:18:15 Mexico City 1985 and 2017 Earthquakes: