BUCHANAN LECTURES (PAST) Year Author Booklet Videos 1993 Ralph B. Peck “The Coming of Age of Soil Mechanics: 1920-1970“ 1993 1994 G. Geoffrey Meyerhof “Evolution of Safety Factors and Geotechnical Limit State Design” 1994 1995 James K. Mitchell “The Role of Soil Mechanics in Environmental Geotechnics” 1995 1996 Delwyn G. Fredlund “The Emergence of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics” 1996 1997 T. William Lambe “The Selection of Soil Strength for a Stability Analysis” 1997 1998 John B. Burland “The Enigma of the Leaning Tower of Pisa” 1998 1999 J. Michael Duncan “Factors of Safety and Reliability in Geotechnical Engineering” 1999 2000 Harry G. Poulos “Foundation Settlement Analysis – Practice Versus Research” 2000 2001 Robert D. Holtz “Geosynthetics for Soil Reinforcement” 2001 2002 Arnold Aronowitz “The World trade Center: Construction, Destruction, Reconstruction” 2002 2003 Eduardo Alonso “Exploring the Limits of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics: the Behavior of Coarse Granular Soil and Rockfill” 2003 2004 Raymond Krizek “Slurries in Geotechnical Engineering” 2004 2005 T.D. O’Rourke “Soil-Structure Interaction Under Extreme Loading Conditions” 2005 2006 Clyde N. Baker, Jr. “In-Situ Testing, Soil Structure Interaction, and Cost Effective Foundation Design” 2006 2007 Ricardo Dobry “Pile response to liquefaction and lateral spreading: field observations and current Research” 2007 2008 Kenneth H. Stokoe “The Increasing Roles of Seismic Measurements in Geotechnical Engineering” 2008 2009 José M. Roesset “Some Applications of Soil Dynamics” 2009 2010 Kenji Ishihara “Forensic Diagnosis for Site-Specific Ground Conditions in Deep Excavations of Subway Constructions” 2010 2011 Rudolph Bonaparte “Cold War Legacy – Design, Construction, and Performance of a Land-Based Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility” 2011 2012 W. Allen Marr “Active Risk Management in Geotechnical Engineering “ 2012 2013 Andrew J. Whittle “Importance of Undrained Behavior in the Analysis of Soil-Structure Interactions” 2013 2014 Craig H. Benson “Landfill Covers: Water Balance, Unsaturated Soils, and a Pathway from Theory to Practice” 2014 2015 William F. Marcuson, III “Katrina in Your Rearview Mirror” 2015 2016 Edward Kavazanjian “Bio-Geo-Alchemy: Biogeotechnical Carbonate Precipitation for Hazard Mitigation and Ground Improvement” 2016 2017 Jonathan Bray “Turning Disaster into Knowledge “ 2017 2018 Paul W. Mayne “Versatility of Cone Penetration Tests in GeoCharacterization” 2018 2019 Gregory B Baecher “Putting Numbers on Geotechnical Judgement” 2019 2020 Lidija Zdravkovic “Soil Characterisation for Advanced Geotechnical Design: Parameter Derivation” 2020 2021 Philippe Jeanjean “Offshore Geotechnics: From Oil and Gas to Renewable Energy” 2021
