ATS beginnings, kick starting the society and the state of play in 1979
ATS beginnings Today’s Australian Tunnelling Society (ATS) can trace its roots back to the 1948 establishment of the National Committee on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering by the Institution of Engineers Australia (IEAust). This was subsequently restructured and renamed as the National Committee on Geomechanics in 1968, to reflect the growing involvement of rock [...]