The Hans Lorenz Symposium was founded in 2005 by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stavros Savidis to honour Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Lorenz on his 100th birthday. The symposium is held annually at the Chair of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin.
Hans Lorenz lived from 1905 to 1996 and was full professor for soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering from 1947 to 1972 and thus the first in his field at the Technical University of Berlin, which was reopened after the war. On the one hand, he is regarded as the founder of soil dynamics and, through his research work on diaphragm wall technology, also as a pioneer of modern special geotechnical engineering.
Consequently, the symposium named after him bears these two sub-disciplines of geotechnics "Soil Dynamics and Special Geotechnical Engineering" as an additional title in its name and is intended to be a forum in which the state of research and practice as well as innovative developments are presented and discussed. A high number of participants each year testifies to the interest of the participants in absorbing as well as sharing current knowledge in the field of geotechnics and soil dynamics within the framework of a symposium.
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Hans Lorenz lectures
In the years since its inception, the Hans Lorenz Symposium has become a fixed annual event in the national geotechnical engineering community and beyond. A special feature and trademark of this specialist symposium for soil dynamics and special geotechnical engineering is the Hans Lorenz Lecture, which is given at the beginning of each symposium by an outstanding and renowned expert in the field of geotechnics.
| Year | Title | Lecturer |
|---|---|---|
| 17. Symposium 2023 | Ressourcenschonung und Nachhaltigkeit im Spezialtiefbau | Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Katzenbach |
| 16. Symposium 2022 | Baugruben | Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Achim Hettler |
| 15. Symposium 2019 | Innerstädtische Gründungen neben bestehenden Verkehrsanlagen | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kurt-Michael Borchert |
| 14. Symposium 2018 | Wie gut verstehen wir den Boden? | Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dimitrios Kolymbas |
| 13. Symposium 2017 | 3D-FE-Berechnungen versus einfacher Handrechnungen - Gegensatz oder notwendige Ergänzung bei der geotechnischen Bemessung | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Richter |
| 12. Symposium 2016 | Zyklische Belastung von Boden – Attraktorenzustände, Historiotropie und Fraktalität | Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Th. Triantafyllidis |
| 11. Symposium 2015 | Tiefbau zwischen Planung und Ausführung | Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Pöllath |
| 10. Symposium 2014 | 25 Jahre geosynthetische Tondichtungsbahnen als mineralisches Dichtungselement im Wasserbau und Umweltschutz | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Georg Heerten |
| 9. Symposium 2013 | Der Geotechnik-Ingenieur in der Gesellschaft: Image, Verantwortung, Herausforderungen | Em.O.Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Dr.h.c.mult. Heinz Brandl |
| 8. Symposium 2012 | Bodenmechanische Herausforderungen bei der Bemessung von Offshore-Gründungen | Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stavros A. Savidis |
| 7. Symposium 2011 | Baugrundverbesserung zur Herabsetzung des Verflüssigungspotentials bei Pfahlgründungen | Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Sondermann |
| 6. Symposium 2010 | Zur Bedeutung des Entwerfens im konstruktiven Grundbau | Dr.- Ing. Helmut Kramer, Dipl.-Ing. Friedhelm Albrecht |
| 5. Symposium 2009 | Warum brauchen wir Normen? | Dr.-Ing. Bernd Schuppener |
| 4. Symposium 2008 | Void Fabric and Sand Response Phase Transformation, Critical State and Liquefaction | Prof. Dr. Xiang Song Li |
| 3. Symposium 2007 | Die Phänomenologie der Bodenverformungen - eine historische Betrachtung | em. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Smoltczyk |
| 2. Symposium 2006 | Der 1g-Modellversuch in der Bodenmechanik - Verfahren und Anwendung | em. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Walz |
| 1. Symposium 2005 | Seismo-Hypoplastische Zustandsgrenzen | o. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Gerd Gudehus |