Traces of Prof. Triantafyllidis in Bochum

From 1998 to 2008 Prof. Triantafyllidis was head of the chair of foundation engineering and soil mechanics of the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum. During that time, he initiated a number of research projects and the topics of these initiatives came along with the scientific work of Prof. Triantafyllidis for the next decades. But also in Bochum these research activities created a base for further developments. Within this contribution a number of the research initiatives of Prof. Triantafyllidis are recalled and two examples are given, how these works are influencing the developments in Bochum up to know.