Conference themes

Fundamental soil behaviour

• Micro- and macro-structure

• Water retention

• Stress-strain behaviour

• Multi-physic couplings (e.g., temperature, chemistry, biology etc.)

• Cyclic/dynamic behaviour

• Behaviour of muliphase soils, soft and hard rocks

New equipment and testing methods

• Advanced and new testing equipment

• Sensors for suction/moisture measurements

• In-situ/field testing

Modelling

• Constitutive modelling

• Physical modelling including centrifuge

• Numerical modelling and analysis

Geotechnical engineering problems

• Infrastructural developments such as earth and rockfill dams, roads, embankments and railways

• Natural and man-made hazards such as stability of fill slopes and rainfall-induced landslides

• Foundations in unsaturated soils

• Mining engineering

Energy and environmental issues

• Bio-engineering

• Vegetation effects

• Climate change, soil-atmospheric interaction

• Geo-environment such as capillary barriers, nuclear waste disposal and CO₂ sequestration

• Geo-energy such as energy piles, gas hydrates