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
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