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MATRIX A inn o vation cycle (to ols)

empirical experience theoretical

geotechnical fields

experimental
model-
facilities

prediction &
calculation
model

field data &
monitoring

main field specific item M (S)

airfields, roads,
railways, tunnels,
bridges, pipelines

transportation
infrastructure

86 93 82 87(5)

building pits,
underground
building, piling,
monuments

foundation
engineering

68 82 81 77(8)

offshore, harbours,
dredging, dikes,
dams, reclamation

hydro-
geotechnics

88 84 86 86(1)

waste disposals,
industry plants,
reservoirs,
groundmixing

geo-ecology 74 88 79 80(5)

M (S) 79(9) 87(5) 82(3) 83(5)

C PHYSICAL MODEL TESTING STRATEGY
In 2000 a workshop was held on the role of experimental research for the
international geotechnical world. 34 prominent researchers 12 contributed and 20 of
them participated in a brainstorm session. The main goal of the workshop was a
statement on the role of experimental modelling, the scientific value of
experimental R&D, and the usefulness of unique experimental model-facilities.
Two scans were elaborated: matrix A about the importance of innovation for
specific geotechnical fields and matrix B about the estimated value of specific
experimental model-facilities for the identified geotechnical fields.
Each participant gave a value (1=low, 2=mediate, or 3=high) expressing the
importance from personal experience or from a national point of view. These
values are accumulated and transferred to percentages (0%=useless,
100%=perfectly useful), in Matrix A above, and per category the mean value (M)
and the standard deviation (S, in brackets).

12 Austria (Heinz Brandl), Belgium (William van Impe), Denmark (Jørgen Steenfelt),
France (Jacques Garnier, Samuel Amar), Germany (Helmut Kobus, Manfred Nussbaumer,
Hocine Oumeraci, Pieter Vermeer), Greece (Michael Kavvadas, Andreas
Anagnostopoulos), Hungary (Emöke Imre), Ireland (Trevor Orr, Eric Farell), Italy (Henrico
Brignoli, Michael Jamiolkowski), Japan (Hideo Sekiguchi, Kenji Ishihara), Netherlands
(Frans Barends (organizer), Ben Veltman, Arnold Verruijt), Norway (Knut Andersen,
Suzanne Lacasse), Portugal (Antonio Gomes Correia, Pedro Sêco e Pinto), Romania
(Iacinto Manoliu), Russia (Viacheslav Ilychev), Spain (Eduardo Alonso, Cesar Sagaseta),
Sweden (Ulf Bergdahl, Rainer Massarch, Bengt Rydell), Switzerland (Sarah Springman),
Turkey (Ergün Togrol), UK (Frans Molenkamp, Neils Taylor), USA (Gholamreza Mesri).