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ISRM Fellows2015

International Society for Rock Mechanics

FOREWORD 3

NICK BARTON 4

JOSÉ DELGADO RODRIGUES 5

NUNO FEODOR GROSSMANN 6

JUN SUN 7

PETER KAISER 8

TEMURA RAMAMURTHY 9

KOICHI SASSA 10

WULF SCHUBERT 11

REŞAT ULUSAY 12

JIAN ZHAO 13

FELLOWS, BEIJING 2011 14

FELLOWS, WROCLAW 2013 15

ISRM Fellows

ISRM Fellows In line with enhancing the recognition of ISRM members’ high-level achievements, the status of ISRM Fellows acknowledges select individuals who have

achieved outstanding accomplishments in the areas of rock mechanics/

rock engineering and have contributed significantly to the work of the ISRM.

The title of ISRM Fellow carries a clear Society recognition in addition to that

which an individual has attained through his or her own reputation.

The title and position of ISRM Fellow is a lifetime appointment. ISRM Fellows

can be called upon as appropriate for ISRM activities, and would be

expected to provide reasonable advice namely in the ISRM Advisory Forum,

which meets every two years. Thus, the induction of ISRM Fellows creates a

group of high-level experts who can provide strong support to the ISRM as

necessary.

The initial group of Fellows was inaugurated in the ISRM Beijing Congress

in 2011 and the second group in 2013, during the ISRM International

Symposium in Wroclaw, Poland.

Photographs and abbreviated CVs of the third group of Fellows being

inaugurated at the Banquet of the 13th ISRM Congress, in Montréal, Canada,

in May 2015, are included in the following pages – in alphabetical order of

names.

Xia-Ting Feng, ISRM President, 2011-2015

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NICK BARTON

Dr Nick Barton was born in England in 1944. He was educated in the University of London from 1963 to 1970: with B.Sc.(hons) in civil engineering from King’s College, and a Ph.D. in rock slope stability from Imperial College.

He worked in the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo from 1971 to 1980, and from 1984 to 2000, when he was a division director for 5 years and technical advisor for 10 years. From 1981 to 1984 he was manager of geomechanics at TerraTek in Utah, USA. He was a visiting professor in the University of Luleå in Sweden, and in São Paulo Polytechnic University in Brazil in the nineteen-nineties. In 2000 he established the international consultancy Nick Barton & Associates in Norway.

He is author and co-author of 290 papers, and has written two books. The first in 2000 was to develop the QTBM prognosis, the other in 2006 was to link rock quality and seismic attributes of rock masses.

In 1973 he developed the Barton shear strength criterion linking joint roughness JRC and joint wall strength JCS, subsequently incorporating the gravity tilt test for calculating JRC. He is co-developer of the Barton-Bandis criterion for modelling coupled rock joint behaviour, published in 1985. In 1974 he developed the Q-system for characterizing rock masses and for selecting single-shell tunnel and cavern support. This was updated in 1993 with Grimstad.

He has consulted on several hundred rock engineering projects in 35 countries during the last 45 years, involving hydropower and metro tunnels and caverns, large dams, nuclear waste research, rock stress measurement and jointed reservoir behaviour.

Nick Barton has ten international awards, including the 6th Müller Lecture in 2011. He is an honorary doctor of University of Cordoba, Argentina.


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JOSÉ DELGADO RODRIGUES

Dr José Delgado Rodrigues was born in Coimbra in 1945 and graduated in Geology from the University of Coimbra in 1967. He obtained the degree of Specialist in Engineering Geology by the Portuguese National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC) in 1976, with the thesis “Rock weathering in Engineering Geology. Application to Portuguese case-studies”, and became a Principal Research Officer of LNEC with the research programme “Research on rock materials with application to rockfill structures” in 1985, until he retired in 2006. He is a consultant in stone conservation in Cultural Heritage.

He is a Member of the Editorial Board of the journals “Journal of Cultural Heritage”, “Geotechnical and Geological Engineering”, “Materiales de Construcción”, “International Journal of Architectural Heritage: Conservation, Analysis, and Restoration”, “Restoration of Buildings and Monuments”, “Soils and Rocks” and “Geotecnia”, and had hoc reviewer for “Studies in Conservation”, “Progress in Organic Coatings”, “Construction and Building Materials”, “Journal of Applied Physics A” and “Engineering Geology”.

José Delgado Rodrigues was President of LNEC’s Scientific Council (2001-2004), Invited Professor of the New University of Lisbon (2000-2006), Director of LNEC’s Geotechnical Department (2003-2006), Secretary-General of the ISRM (1991-2003), President of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society (1989-1993), member of the Scientific International Permanent Committee for the Organisation of Congresses on Degradation and Conservation of Stone (1976-2004) and member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of World Monuments Fund, Portugal. He has acted as invited professor in courses worldwide.

He is the author or co-author of about 170 LNEC reports, 170 papers published in scientific national and international journals or presented to conferences. He was the coordinator of several European level research projects.

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NUNO FEODOR GROSSMANN

Dr Nuno Feodor Grossmann was born in Lisbon in 1941 and studied mining engineering at the Technical University of Lisbon (IST). In 1964 he started working at the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC) and the IST. Between 1967 and 1972, he fulfilled his compulsory military service, in mainland Portugal and overseas.

At the LNEC, Nuno Grossmann obtained the degree of Specialist in Rock Mechanics in 1977, and was approved as Principal Research Officer in 1987. He became Head of the Road Geotechnique Division (1991-1996) and of the Underground Works Division (1996-2002). Until his retirement, in 2011, he worked in the Foundations and Underground Works Division. His main research topic has been the study of rock mass jointing, but he also gained a large experience in in-situ rock mechanics tests, and developed a significant activity as auditor of the quality control of construction works.

At the IST, until 1979, he lectured mainly classes in Mineralogy, Petrology, Geology, and Applied Geology. From 2000 to 2003 he was Invited Full Professor for Rock Mechanics at the University of Évora.

Nuno Grossmann is a member of the IAEG, the ISRM, the ISSMGE, and the ITA. At the ISRM, he was Secretary-General (1983-87), Editor-in-Chief of the ISRM News (1989-96), Contributing Editor of the ISRM News Journal (1996-2007), Vice-President for Europe and 1st Vice-President (2007-11), member of the EUROCK Steering Committee (1990-2010), and member of several Commissions. He is currently a member of the Commission on Testing Methods.


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JUN SUN

Professor Jun Sun was awarded his Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering at the National Jiao-Tong University of China in 1949. He obtained his PhD in the former USSR in 1956, and carried out his postdoctoral research at the State University of North Carolina in the US in 1980 as a Senior Visiting Professor.

He was appointed as a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991, as well as First Class Honorary Professor of Tongji University. Professor Sun has been very active in academic societies and was appointed Vice President of the International Society for Rock Mechanics, from 1995 to 1999, and President of Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering.

Professor Sun has devoted his life to researching and teaching in the fields of geo-mechanics, tunnels and underground structures, including the rheological behavior of geomaterials; the visco-elasto-plastic theory of underground structures; artificial neural networks prediction and control for the construction of the underground works; as well as the urban geo-environmental engineering. He was one of the main founders and developers of Engineering Mechanics of Underground Structures during the 1960s, and has been working as principal investigator for over 20 national level key research projects since the 1980s.

He has been responsible for the research, design, experimental studies and geotechnical investigations of over 40 large scale national key engineering construction projects. He published over 360 journal papers, authored 10 monographs and co-edited 3 monographs. He has been awarded numerous science and technology awards or prizes, including 4 items at the national level and 17 items at the municipal or provincial level.

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PETER KAISER

Professor Peter Kaiser is a graduate of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the University of Alberta, Canada. Since 1987 he is Professor of Mining Engineering and Chair for Rock Engineering and Ground Control at the Bharti School of Engineering of Laurentian University in Canada. Over the last seven years, he was seconded to the Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI) as Founding Director and then as Director of the Rio Tinto Centre for Underground Mine Construction (RTC-UMC). Since July 2014, he assumed Technical Advisor roles at the Rio Tinto Centre and MIRARCO, a mining research centre he founded at Laurentian University in 1997. He also holds an Adjunct Professorship at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Peter Kaiser is the author of more than 300 technical and scientific geomechanics publications. He has received many awards including the ISRM Schlumberger award in 1993, awards from the Canadian Geotechnical Society and from the Canadian Institute of Mining.

He is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) and the Canadian Academy of Engineers and in 2013 was awarded the Julian C. Smith Medal of the EIC for “Achievement in the Development of Canada” and named the “Tunneller of the Year” by the Tunnelling Association of Canada.

He is a specialist in applied research for underground mining and construction. His interests lie in geomechanics, mine design, rock engineering and the application of innovative technologies that increase mine safety and productivity. He served as consultant to numerous consulting companies, mines, and public agencies. He has supported contractors, mining companies and public sector clients in claims and litigations in four continents.

In the ISRM he served as Vice President for North America from 1991 to 1995.


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TEMURA RAMAMURTHY

Professor Temura Ramamurthy, born in 1936, obtained a B.E. at Osmania University in 1958, a M.E. at the Indian Institute of Science in 1962 and a PhD at the Birmingham University, U.K., in 1966. He worked at Engineering Research labs in Hyderabad, in 1958-67, became a Lecturer at the Indian Institute of Technilogy, Delhi, in 1967, Assistant Professor in 1969 and Professor in 1975, and retired as Emeritus Professor in 2001. He has been Consultant and Director at Angron Geotech Pvt.Ltd., New Delhi.

He worked in soils till 1980, and started developing undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in rock mechanics in 1973. He conducted short courses for teachers of engineering colleges, provided course contents and text of lectures for undergraduate elective in rock mechanics, started the M.Tech degree programme in 1977 for civil and mining engineers, and conducted short courses and workshops to practicing engineers. He established teaching and research Rock Laboratory.

Professor Ramamurthy guided 11 PhD theses, a number of M.Tech. theses, published over 90 papers and received 7 awards.

He was Vice President of the Indian Tunneling Association and of the Indian Society for Engineering Geologists, and served on the Advisory Committees of National Research Institutes of Rock Mechanics, Geophysics, Mining and Civil Engineering.

He served on the Editorial Boards of several international journals and contributed a chapter for Comprehensive Rock Engineering. He was editor of a number of rock mechanics and tunneling conferences and of the book “Engineering in Rocks” (2008), and contributed to the Manuals of Rock Mechanics (2012) and Underground Works (2013).

In the ISRM he was Vice President for Asia 1987-1991, member on Commissions of Education and Testing of Rocks, and delivered several keynote lectures.

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KOICHI SASSA

Professor Koichi Sassa is an Emeritus Professor at Kyoto University. He obtained his B. Eng., M. Eng. (both in Mining Engineering) and Dr. Eng. from Kyoto University in Japan. He worked at Kyoto University for 36 years as Associate Professor of Rock Mechanics and Professor of Exploration Geophysics. He conducted his research at the Mining Laboratory in the Department of Mines and Technical Survey, Canada from 1963 to 1965. After retirement from Kyoto University, he worked for 9 years at Fukui University of Technology as Professor of Rock Engineering.

He has authored a great number of publications in journals and conferences, and written two college text books. He has been conferred the Society of Exploration Geophysicists of Japan Award in 1990, the Mining and Metallurgical Institute of Japan Award in 1984, and the Industrial Explosives Society of Japan Award in 1972. He has been involved in many national projects having relationship with his specialty.

He has served as Vice President for Asia of the ISRM from 1991 to 1995, and initiated the ISRM Commission on the Application of Geophysics to Rock Engineering in 1996 and led the Commission until 2007. Furthermore, he has served as President of the Japanese Committee for Rock Mechanics, President of the Mining and Material Processing Institute of Japan, and President of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists of Japan. He was a member of the Science Council of Japan.


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WULF SCHUBERT

Professor Wulf Schubert received his Dipl.-Ing. degree from the Graz University of Technology, and the PhD degree from the Mining University in Leoben. He joined Geoconsult in 1980, were he worked on tunnelling and rock engineering projects around the world as designer, supervisor and consultant.

In 1992 he became full Professor for Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling at the Graz University of Technology. His research focuses on rock mass characterization, all aspects of tunnelling in poor and faulted ground, as well as monitoring data interpretation.

Wulf Schubert is known in the community for promoting up to date design methods in rock engineering. He has published more than 200 papers, and supervised around 75 MSc students and 20 PhD students. In cooperation with Leoben University he has established a very successful post graduate course in tunnelling.

He served as ISRM Vice President at Large for Europe from 1999 to 2003, and has been engaged in several working groups and commissions. He chaired the ISRM EUROCK Symposia in 2004 and 2015 in Salzburg, Austria.

Since 2008 Wulf Schubert is president of the Austrian Society for Geomechanics. He is founding partner in the consulting company 3G Gruppe Geotechnik Graz.

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REŞAT ULUSAY

Professor Reşat Ulusay obtained his BSc and MSc degrees from Hacettepe University in 1975 and PhD degree from Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey, in 1991 in engineering geology.

His main research activities are connected to engineering geology, rock mechanics and soil mechanics; particularly slope stability, rock mass characterization, laboratory and in-situ testing, earthquake-induced ground deformations, and swelling.

Between 1975 and 1996, he worked at the Mineral Research and Exploration Institute (MTA) of Turkey and was trained on mining geotechnology by Golder Associates and assigned to establish the Rock and Soil Mechanics Division and Laboratories under the auspices of the United Nations. During this period, he was involved in a number of geotechnical projects as engineer/manager, service chief and department coordinator. He became Associate Professor in 1994. Since December 1995 he has been working at the Applied Geology Division of the Geological Engineering Department at Hacettepe University. He became full Professor in 2000. He has also been a part-time instructor in METU since 1992.

Reşat Ulusay supervised a number of MSc and PhD theses and authored many research papers. He is also an editorial board member of severak international journals.

He is the President of ISRM Commission on Testing Methods, member of ISRM Design Methodology Commission, President of the Turkish Society of Engineering Geology and member of Turkish Earthquake Advisory Board. He also participated in some international collaborative research projects and is the co-editor and editor of the ISRM Blue Book and Orange Book, respectively, which compile the ISRM Suggested Methods since 1974.


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JIAN ZHAO

Professor Jian Zhao started his rock mechanics profession in 1983, working on PhD at Imperial College London with Professor Ted Brown, and completed the PhD in 1987. In 1990-2005, he was at Nanyang Technological University Singapore responsible for teaching and research of rock mechanics and underground technology.

In 2005, he took up professorship of rock mechanics and tunnelling at Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and holds the position until 2015. In 2013, he accepted an invitation to join Australia’s Monash University as an endowed chair of rock mechanics in civil and mining engineering. He also became an independent director of a Singapore Exchange listed public company, Terratech Group, in 2014.

Jian Zhao was ISRM Vice-President for Asia in 2003-2007, and has been an editor of Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology since 2000.

He teaches and researches rock mechanics at universities and practises rock engineering through consulting. He has supervised over 30 PhD thesess and authored or co-authored over 350 publications, including 14 book/edited volumes, and about 150 ISI journal articles.

His academic pursuits are fundamental and applied researches on rock dynamics and underground excavation.

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FIRST GROUP OF FELLOWS, BEIJING

TED BROWN

CHARLES FAIRHURST

JOHN A. FRANKLIN

PIERRE HABIB

MARC PANET

SHUNSUKE SAKURAI

NIELEN VAN DER MERWE

WALTER WITTKE


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SECOND GROUP OF FELLOWS, WROCLAW

GIOVANNI BARLA

HERBERT H. EINSTEIN

JOHN A. HUDSON

MILTON ASSIS KANJI

CHUNG-IN LEE

QIAN QIHU

OVE STEPHANSSON

DICK STACEY

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