The ISRM President has appointed several Commissions for the period 2007-2011 in order that they may study some scientific and technical matters of topical interest to the Society. Other proposals are currently being analysed.

For proposing the creation of a Commission, the proposed Commission President shall fill up an application form and send it to the ISRM President, with copy to the Secretariat. To download the application form click here.

In accordance with the ISRM By-law No. 3 "Rules to be followed by Commissions and Joint Commissions", ISRM Members wishing to participate in the work of any of the Commissions shall contact the respective President.

The current list of ISRM Commissions is the following:

• Commission on Rock Spalling
• Commission on Preservation of Ancient Sites
• Commission on Testing Methods
• Commission on Radioactive Waste Disposal
• Commission on Rock Dynamics
• Commission on Education
• Commission on Application of Geophysics to Rock Engineering
• Commission on Rock Engineering Design Methodology
  

The Presidents of the three Sister Societies, IAEG, ISRM and ISSMGEA created a number of Joint Technical Committes and approved the JTC Guidelines. These JTCs operate now under the umbrella of the Federation of International Geo-engineering Societies - FedIGS.

The current list of JTCs is the following:

• JTC 1 - Joint Technical Committee on Landslides and Engineered Slopes

The ISRM and the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association - ITA are cooperating in such a way that ISRM may appoint members to selected ITA Working Groups and ITA may appoint members to selected ISRM Commissions. Besides, a Joint Working Group / Commission on "Site Investigation Strategies for Rock Tunnels" is being set up, under the joint chairmanship of Eric Leca from ITA and Rolf Christiansson from ISRM.