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