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VICTOR FROILANO BACHMANNDE MELLO
VICTOR FROILANO BACHMANNDE MELLO
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(Member of Portuguese Parliament) and a German-Swiss mother, Victor de Mello was born in Goa, Portuguese India, on May 14, 1926.
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The research and developments proposed by Victor for the behavior of compacted saprolites and residual soils have influenced dam engineering throughout the world. His activities also included the design and follow-up of large open-pit mine projects in Brazil, the Imigrantes highway, the Ferrovia do Aço railway; geotechnical problems of the Confins, Galeão, and Manaus airports; and Açominas, Albras, Alumar, Alunorte, Camaçari, Cubatão, and Duque de Caxias refineries and steel and aluminum mills.
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In lecturing on his select case histories, he always surprised by stressing from each case the lesson whereby the earnest optimized solution should principally indicate how not to repeat it, if the case chanced to present again. An enthusiastic and intense perennial challenger and debater, Victor was often rightly misunderstood as disagreeing with his colleagues when he was really debating the topic and his own questionings.
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In an attempt to honor Victor de Mello and celebrate his contributions to geotechnical engineering, the Brazilian and Portuguese geotechnical societies have created the Victor de Mello Lecture. The first lecture was delivered by John Burland in 2008.
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