In honour of our great teacher, Professor Ervin Nonveiller, invited lectures named Nonveiller Lecture are given approximately once a year.
Some interesting data on Professor Ervin Nonveiller are given at the poster on Professor Nonveiller (size A0, 6MB; size A4, 1MB) prepared for the conference EUROCK 2009.
The 1st Nonveiller Lecture was given by Professor Heinz Brandl, Technische Universität Wien on 7 December 2000. with the title Deep and shallow compaction of soil and other granular materials. On this occasion, an exhibition on the life and work of Professor Nonveiller was prepared by Professor Franjo Verić
The 2nd Nonveiller Lecture was given by Professor Franjo Verić, University of Zagreb, with the title Some experiences at design of earth dams (Neka iskustva u projektiranju nasutih brana) and Special problems of foundations (Posebni problemi temeljenja) on 4 December 2001. at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb.
The 3rd Nonveiller Lecture was given by Professor William Van Impe, University of Ghent, President of ISSMGE, with the title Trends and expected developments in deep foundation engineering, on 3 October 2002, at the occasion of the third conference of the Society (HUMTGI), in Hvar, hotel “Amfora“.
The 4th Nonveiller Lecture was given by Mr. Alan Powderham, Mott MacDonald, UK, with the title: The observational method – learning from project, on 13 November 2003, at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb.
The 5th Nonveiller Lecture was given by Professor Francois Schlosser, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees – CERMES, France, on 17 December 2004. at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb, with the title The foundations of the Millau viaduct in France.
The 6th Nonveiller Lecture was given by Professor Antun Szavits-Nossan at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb, on 27 January 2006., with the title Geotechnical Engineering and new study programmes (Geotehnika i novi studiji građevinarstva)
The 7th Nonveiller Lecture was given by Professor Pedro Seco e Pinto, ISSMGE President, with the title New trends in tunnelling engineering on 5 October 2006, during the 4th conference of the Croatian Geotechnical Society and his paper is published in the proceedings of the Conference.
The 8th Nonveiller Lecture was given by Professor Roger Frank, Vice President of ISSMGE for Europe, on 7 March 2008. at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb, with the title French practice and theory for pile design.
The 9th Nonveiller Lecture was given by Professor Ivan Vrkljan, secretary of CGS, head of the Geotechnical laboratory at the Institute IGH in Zagreb and full professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Rijeka, with the title Engineering Rock Mechanics in Croatia, on 9 November 2010, at the Institute IGH, Ulica Janka Rakuše 1, Zagreb.
The 10th Nonveiller Lecture was given by Dr Nick Barton, Nick Barton & Associates, with the title Pre-grouting for water control and for rock mass property improvement, on 03 June 2011. at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering of the University of Zagreb, Pierottijeva 6, Zagreb.
The 11th Nonveiller Lecture was given by Professor Dobroslav Znidarčić, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, under the title Prvo stoljeće mehanike tla: od teorije konsolidacije do mehanike nezasićenih tala (First century of soil mechanics: from the theory of consolidation to the mechanics of unsaturated soils), 11 June 2012, at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering of the University of Zagreb, Pierottijeva 6, Zagreb.
The 12th Nonveiller Lecture was given by Professor Kenji Ishihara, Professor of Research and Development Initiative, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, under the title Characteristics of Waterfront Landslides, on 14 June 2013, during the Days of Chartered Civil Engineers, in Opatija, in the Congress hall of hotel Ambassador. More details of the lecture are here >>>
The 13th Nonveiller Lecture was given by Professor Mladen Vučetić, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, under the title The effects of the rate of shearing on the dynamic and cyclic soil properties and the parameters for local seismic site response analyses, at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb, on 21 May 2014. More details of the lecture are here >>>.
The 14th Nonveiller Lecture was given by Professor Paul W. Mayne, Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, under the title GeoCharacterization by Seismic Piezocone in 2016 and Beyond, on 5 October 2016, at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering of the University of Zagreb. More details of the lecture are here >>>
The 15th Nonveiller Lecture was given by Professor Atilla Ansal, President of the European Association of Earthquake Engineering, Chairman of the Civil Engineering Department, Özyeğin University, editor of the Springer series Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering, and main editor of the Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, on 25 October 2017. More details of the lecture and its record are here >>>
The 16th Nonveiller Lecture was delivered by Professor Kerry Rowe on 15 May 2018. under the title Past advances and future directions in geoenvironmental engineering: a personal perspective. More details of the lecture and its record are here >>>
The 17th Nonveiller Lecture was given by Professor Giovanni Barla, Politecnico di Torino, with the title Novel Investigative Tools of Rock Slopes and Tunnels in View of Realistic Modelling in Engineering Applications on 12.04.2019. in Omiš, during the ISRM Specialised conference and 8th conference of the Croatian Geotechnical Society OMIŠ 2019. More on the lecturer and the lecture is given on our web pages >>>
The 18th Nonveiller Lecture was given by Professor Dietmar Adam, TU Wien, with the title Soil compaction and compaction control – state of the art, innovations and developments on 27 September 2022 in Zagreb. More could be seen here >>>
The 19th Nonveiller Lecture was given by Professor Janko Logar, University of Ljubljana, with the title The role of advanced technologies in selected case histories of forensic geotechnics on 11 March 2025 in Zagreb. More could be seen here >>>
The 20th Nonveiller Lecture was given by Professor Miško Čubrinovski, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, with the title Engineering evaluation of liquefaction problems on 7 October 2025. in Zagreb. More could be seen here >>>
21st Nonveiller Lecture will be given by Professor Lyesse Laloui, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, on 12 November 2026. More will be available here >>>