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Author: Manuel de Matos Fernandes
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A message from the President of the SPG

November 27, 2020
It is with great pleasure that I write this brief Editorial, on behalf of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society (SPG), at the invitation of the President of the Brazilian Association for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ABMS), Alexandre Gusmao, and of the President of the Commemorative Committee of the ABMS 70th anniversary, Waldemar Hachich. The comme...
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New Developments in the Control and Prediction of the Movements Induced by Deep Excavations in Soft Soils (Pacheco Silva Lecture)

September 01, 2015

The paper corresponds to the Pacheco Silva Lecture delivered by the author in September 2014. In the first part of the text, a general perspective of the movements induced by deep excavations in soft soils is outlined. The general report presented by Ralph B. Peck to the 1969 ISSMFE México conference is taken as reference and the pr...

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Deep Urban Excavations in Portugal: Practice, Design, Research and Perspectives

November 01, 2010

The paper corresponds to the Manuel Rocha Lecture delivered by the author in October 2009. It is divided into three main parts. Part 1, Practice and Design, summarizes the most relevant excavations performed in Portugal since the 1950s, with emphasis on selected case histories. Part 2, Design and Research, discusses research work and original approaches...

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