Foundations: shallow and deep foundations including off-shore wind turbine and other marine structure foundation;
Deep excavation and retaining structures: site characterization, design of excavation support systems, specification of responses to construction difficulties, preconstruction surveys of adjacent properties and utilities, field observations during construction, excavation installation, and structure construction etc;
Soil dynamics and earthquake engineering: engineers and other applied scientists involved in solving problems closely related to the field of geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil dynamics;
Engineering behavior of soil and rock: soil and/or rock characterization and properties including constitutive equations and time effects; new testing equipment, apparatus, and procedures for both field and laboratory applications in soil and rock testing;
Site characterization: practical application of novel and innovative technologies in geotechnical and geophysical engineering, along with their interpretation and utilization for the purposes of site characterization;
Landslide and slope stability: landslide dynamics, mechanisms and processes; volcanic, urban, marine and reservoir landslides; related tsunamis and seiches; hazard assessment and mapping; modeling, monitoring, GIS techniques; remedial or preventive measures; early warning and evacuation and a global landslide database;
Dams and hydro-electric stations: technology related to dams, levees and hydro-electric station;
Rock engineering: experimental and theoretical aspects of rock mechanics, including laboratory and field testing, methods of computation and field observation of structural behaviour;
Environmental geotechnics: radioactive waste disposal; sanitary landfills of waste and management;
Geosynthetics and geo-products: behaviour, performance analysis, testing, design, construction methods, case histories and field experience of geosynthetics and other geo-products;
Ground improvement and stabilization: analytical advances, performance evaluations, pilot and model studies, instrumented case-histories and innovative applications of existing technology;
Computer modelling: computer aided analysis, research and design in geotechnical engineering including numerical algorithms, analytical modelling and probabilistic methods etc;
Groundwater monitoring and restoration: groundwater flow and well hydraulics, hydrogeochemistry and contaminant hydrogeology, application of geophysics, groundwater management and policy, and history of groundwater hydrology etc;
Coastal, geotechnical ocean engineering and land reclamation: practices, innovative technologies, new research results and case histories in the field of coastal and marine geotechnics such as designing and procuring marine ground investigations for end uses including offshore renewables, berths, waterfront redevelopments, bridges and tunnels;
Natural Hazards: atmospheric, climatological, oceanographic, storm surges, tsunamis, floods, snow, avalanches, landslides, erosion, earthquakes, volcanoes, man-made and technological induced geohazards; risk assessment;
Geo-energy: applications to geological energy production and storage, and the interaction of soils and rocks with the natural and engineered environment;
Infrastructure and pavement engineering: applied papers on all aspects of geotechnics for roads, highways, railways, airfields and waterways;
Geomechanics: numerical and analytical methods; constitutive modeling including elasticity, plasticity, creep, localization, fracture and instabilities; neural networks, expert systems, optimization and reliability; statics and dynamics of interacting structures and foundations; liquid and gas flow through geologic media, contaminant transport and groundwater problems; borehole stability, geohazards such as earthquakes, landslides and subsidence; soil/rock improvement; and the development of model validations using laboratory and field measurements;
Tunnelling and underground space development: geo-investigation, geomechanics analysis, design and modelling, construction and monitoring, and maintenance and rehabilitation of tunnels and large underground and earth-sheltered structures;
Physical modelling: modelling at single gravity and at multiple gravities on a centrifuge, shaking table and pressure chamber testing and geoenvironmental experiments;
Site Investigation including geophysical and other techniques: new technology or case histories of geotechnical project site investigation; theoretical, computational, applied and observational geophysics in geotechnical engineering project etc;
Field testing and performance monitoring: verification of long-term performances, validation of new theories, construction control, warning against any impending failures, quality assurance, and legal protection are some of the many reasons for geotechnical instrumentation etc.
