1. To promote exchange of information and co-operation between the experimentalists and the users about the use of geotechnical physical modelling (including centrifuge testing) in simulating boundary value problems in geotechnical engineering.
2. To act as contact persons for the profession for reliable sources of information on geotechnical physical modelling.
3. To monitor the effectiveness of information dissemination in reaching practising engineers and researchers through established journals and conferences; if needed to suggest improvements; and to encourage publication of technical articles in widely available journals and conferences.
4. To develop with other TCs, including TC12, TC14 & TC28, a mutual understanding of the role of physical modelling in addressing their geotechnical challenges.
5. To co-operate with other national and international groups interested in geotechnical physical modelling including TRB technical committee A2K05 - Modelling techniques in geotechnics and ASTM task group D18.09 - Centrifuge Modelling.
6. To promote the organisation of the next TC2 international conference on Geotechnical Physical Modelling to be held in Canada in 2002.
7. To support and encourage the organisation of international, national and regional events on geotechnical physical modelling, including the European NECER workshop in 2000.
8. To encourage presentation of papers on geotechnical physical modelling applications to general sessions of the next Istanbul XV ICSMGE conference in 2001.

Task Forces (proposed):

Centrifuge Testing Manual; Website Development; Reference Database;

Liaison: TC14 - Offshore Geotechnical Engineering; TC28 - Underground Construction in Soft Ground; TC14 Validation of Computer Simulations; TRB A2K05; ASTM D18.09; International Journal

1. To support a new quarterly journal of physical modelling in geotechnics.
2. To increase the scope of TC2 to include other types of geotechnical physical modelling
3. To continue a program of co-operative testing between centrifuge modellers, including the development of procedures for the preparation and testing of clay models.
4. To complete the development of a standard testing manual for centrifuge modelling.
5. To develop an information network to promote the exchange of information through a website and an email network

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