Asphalt Core Embankment Dams

Kaare Hoeg is a special advisor at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) and a professor emeritus in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Oslo. He earned his doctorate (ScD) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, and he was a professor at Stanford University, USA, from 1968 until 1974 when he was appointed as the Managing Director of NGI, a position he held until 1991. He was elected as a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences in 1976 and the Academy of Letters and Arts in 1977 and as a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 1993. He was elected as the president of the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) from 1997 to 2000. He is actively engaged as a design consultant for new dams and as an expert panel member for the safety evaluation, risk analysis, and strengthening of existing dams. He is the author/co-author of two books on embankment dams and has published 170 technical papers in international journals and conference proceedings.

Weibiao Wang is a supervisor at Xi'an Huize Construction Engineering Co. Ltd and a professor emeritus at Xi'an University of Technology (XAUT), China. He obtained his MSc in 1988 from XAUT and his doctorate (PhD) in 2008 from the University of Oslo, Norway. From 1998 to 1999, he was a visiting scholar at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) and stayed at NGI for his PhD studies supervised by Professor Kaare Hoeg and later as a postdoctoral researcher from 2007 to 2009. Since 1985, he has been engaged in research and consulting for most of the hydraulic asphalt concrete projects in China. He has co-authored the Chinese NB/T 11015-2022 "Code for design of asphalt concrete facings and cores for embankment dams", the DL/T 5362-2018 "Test code for hydraulic bitumen concrete", and SL 514-2013 "Specifications for construction of hydraulic asphalt concrete". He was one of the four people in the working team for editing and updating the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) Bulletin 179 for asphalt concrete core dams. He is the author/co-author of two books on hydraulic asphalt concrete and has published 60 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.