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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2000-05-11 human Ailie Smith; Ken McInnes updated 2025-12-24 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A000427b.htm corporateBody Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS) AACR2 1 January 1970 Start Place Barton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia Location 11 National Circuit, Barton, Australian Capital Territory 2600 Association Society or Membership Organisation Earth Sciences The Australian Geomechanics Society was established in 1970, but its origins date back to the Australian National Committee of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Institution of Engineers, Australia in 1953. The Society is jointly sponsored by the Institution of Engineers Australia and the Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy. It is affiliated with: - International Society for Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMFE/GE); - International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM); - International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG); and it serves as an integrated geotechnical professional Learned Society. Worner, Neil Murray (1914 - 2011)

Foundation committee member 1970 -

 Australian Geomechanics (1986 - ) Davis, Edward Hughesdon (1920 - 1981)

One of the founders of the Australian Geomechanics Society in the 1950s

 Aitchison, Gordon Douglas (1918 - 2003)

One of the founders of the Australian Geomechanics Society in the 1950s

 Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (1893 - )

Joint sponsor of the Society - with the Institution of Engineers Australia

 Institution of Engineers, Australia (1919 - )

Joint sponsor of the Society - with the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

 John Jaeger Memorial Award, Australian Geomechanics Society (1980 - )

The Society has awarded the John Jaeger Memorial Medal since 1980

 Trollope, David Hugh (Hugh) (1925 - 2011)

Foundation Chairman, 1970 - 1972. One of the founders of the Australian Geomechanics Society in the 1950s

 Poulos, Harry George (1940 - )

President 1982 - 1984

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