4390 July, 1965 SM4 Journal of the SOIL MECHANICS AND FOUNDATIONS DIVISION Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers THE SECOND TERZAGHI LECTURE Presented at the American Society of Civil Engineers Annual Meeting and Structural Engineering Conference, New York, New York October 21, 1964 ARTHUR CASAGRANDENTRODUCTION OF TERZAGHI LECTURER By Bramlette McClelland In 1960, the Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division of our Society established both an award and a special lecture in honor of Dr. Karl Terzaghi, Hon. M.ASCE. The first Terzaghi Award was given shortly before Dr. Terzaghi’s death in 1963 to Arthur Casagrande, who will present the second Terzaghi lecture this afternoon. You may recall that the first lecture in this series was given by Dr. Ralph B. Peck at our annual meeting in San Francisco last year Arthur Casagrande, Hon. M. ASCE (1965) and Gordon McKay Professor of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering at Harvard University, is world renowned for his contributions to soil mechanics as a teacher, research worker, and consultant He was born and educated in Austria. In 1924, he graduated as a civil engineer from the Vienna Technische Hochschule where he remained as assistant until he came to the United States in 1926. Shortly after his arrival, he met the late Karl Terzaghi who engaged him as assistant for his consulting practice. Later that same year he accepted a research assistantship with the Bureau of Public Roads to work under Dr. Terzaghi at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1929 and 1930, he interrupted this assignment to accompany Dr. Terzaghi to Vienna for the purpose of establishing, for the Terzaghi chair at the Technische Hochschule, a soil mechanics laboratory and of training assistants in soil testing. While at MIT, he was active in the development of soil classification tests, direct shear tests, an early version of the triaxial apparatus, and in research on frost action in soils. In 1932, Dr. Casagrande accepted a lectureship at Harvard University and climbed the academic ladder to full professorship in 1946. Under his direction, instruction and research in soil mechanics flourished at Harvard and he proudly counts among his former students eminent soil mechanics practitioners and teachers in many countries. During World War II, he trained, in 15 courses, about 400 engineer officers for assignment to Aviation Engineer Battalions. In recent years, he has concentrated his efforts on a one-semester soil mechanics program for practicing engineers and teachers. His consulting work during the past three decades has included virtually all major types of problems in applied soil mechanics. His principal interest lies in the field of earth and rockfill dams, and he has served as consultant on about 100 dam projects in the United States and other countries. In 1936, Dr. Casagrande organized at Harvard the first International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering and it was during this conference that the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering was founded. From 1961 to 1965 he was its president. He has served on many committees of ASCE and is a past chairman of the Executive Committee of the Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division. He is also a past president and honorary member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers. Dr. Casagrande also has the distinction of being the first Rankine Lecturer of the British Institution of Civil Engineers. His voluminous writings haveappeared in many publications and have won him many awards. In view of his eminence in the field of soil mechanics, as a writer, and as a lecturer, it is most fitting that he present to us today his paper on the “Role of the ‘Calculated Risk’ in Earthwork and Foundation Engineering” in memory of his close friend and associate, Karl Terzaghi. I consider it a very great honor to present to you our speaker for this afternoon, Dr. Arthur Casagrande.