SYNOPSIS

Piles have been used by mankind for foundation purposes since prehistoric times; their behaviour, however, is far from completely clear and a substantial volume of research is being carried out on the subject. The field is in evolution with continuous developments in the technologies, in the methods of analysis and in the design approaches. In the lecture, some aspects of pile behaviour will be discussed with the aim of highlighting those crucial factors playing a major role when approaching pile problems.  


ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Prof. Alessandro Mandolini, born in Rome, Italy, 1963.

Academic career
a) Graduated in Civil Engineering in 1989 at the Università di Napoli (Italy).
b) Visiting researcher at the University of Western Australia, Department of Civil Engineering (1993).
c) Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering since 1994.
d) Now Full Professor at Università della Campania, Italy

Scientific activities
a) Author of more than 140 papers for Scientific Journals and for National and International
    Conferences.
b) Author of a book on Piled Foundations
c) Invited Speaker at several National and International Conferences.

National and International Committees
a) UNI-SC7 “Eurocode 7”
b) ISSMGE ERTC3 “Piles” (2001-now)
c) ISMMGE TC212 “Deep Foundations” (2010-2015); since May 2015 elected TC212 Chairman

Awards
a) 1994 - Award by Italian Geotechnical Association (AGI) for the PhD thesis.
b) 1998 - Gold Research (Bishop) Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineering of London (UK)
    for the best contribution published on the journal Geotéchnique for the year 1997.
c) 2005 - Plenary Session State of the Art Reporter at XVI Int. Conference of ISSMGE (Osaka, Japan)
d) 2008 - IACMAG Excellent Paper Junior Award for the paper published on the journal ASCE
    in 2006.
e) 2018 - Harry Poulos Honor Lecturer at GeoMEast Int. Conference (Cairo, Egypt)
f) 2019 - Fellenius Honor Lecturer at 4th Int. Conf. On Deep Foundations (Santa Cruz, Bolivia).