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Prof. Dr. George Mylonakis
Prof. Dr. George Mylonakis
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Editor-in-Chief
1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK
2. Department of Civil Infrastructure and Environmental Engineering, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi 127788, United Arab Emirates
Interests: geotechnical engineering; geotechnical earthquake engineering; soil-structure interaction; soil dynamics; earthquake engineering
Dr. Fatin N. Altuhafi
Dr. Fatin N. Altuhafi
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London (UCL), London WC1 6BT, UK
Interests: constitutive modelling of soils; sand shape and morphology; particle breakage; behaviour of sands; silts and transitional behaviour; ballast
Prof. Dr. Suby Bhattacharya
Prof. Dr. Suby Bhattacharya
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK
Interests: earthquake geotechnical engineering; dynamics of offshore wind turbines; testing of small scale geotechnical models; dynamic soil structure interaction
Prof. Dr. Ching S. Chang
Prof. Dr. Ching S. Chang
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Interests: stress strain strength relationships of soils; micromechanics; numerical methods; granular materials
Dr. Amin Chegenizadeh
Dr. Amin Chegenizadeh
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Editorial Board Member
School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Western Australia, Perth, WA 6102, Australia
Interests: geotechnical engineering; pavement engineering; traffic engineering
Prof. Dr. Yumin Chen
Prof. Dr. Yumin Chen
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Editorial Board Member
College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hohai University, 1 Xikang Road, Nanjing 210098, China
Interests: sand liquefaction; seismic loading; soil dynamics; soft soil improvement; numerical simulation
Prof. Dr. Wen-Chieh Cheng
Prof. Dr. Wen-Chieh Cheng
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Editorial Board Member
School of Civil Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an 710055, China
Interests: environmental geotechnics; construction solid waste; underground space engineering
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Prof. Dr. Sabatino Cuomo
Prof. Dr. Sabatino Cuomo
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, 84084 Salerno, Italy
Interests: landslide mechanisms; solid-fluid transition; landslide dynamics; regional slope stability; slope erosion; geosynthetics reinforcement; laboratory testing; constitutive modeling; unsaturated soils
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Dr. Raffaele Di Laora
Dr. Raffaele Di Laora
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Engineering, Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 81031 Aversa, Italy
Interests: pile foundations; soil-structure interaction; soil dynamics; geotechnical earthquake engineering; thermal piles
Prof. Dr. Daniel Dias
Prof. Dr. Daniel Dias
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Editorial Board Member
Geotechnical Engineering, Grenoble Alpes University, 38400 Grenoble, France
Interests: numerical modelling in geomechanics; soil/structure interaction; geotechnical engineering; soil mechanics; tunnels; dams; slopes; soil reinforcement
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Prof. Dr. Mahdi M. Disfani
Prof. Dr. Mahdi M. Disfani
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
Interests: laboratory investigation of granular material; soil erosion; transportation geotechnics; field monitoring
Prof. Dr. Davide Elmo
Prof. Dr. Davide Elmo
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Editorial Board Member
NBK Institute of Mining Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Interests: rock engineering; geosciences; numerical modelling; machine learning; rock mechanics
Prof. Dr. Behzad Fatahi
Prof. Dr. Behzad Fatahi
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Editorial Board Member
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, City Campus, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia
Interests: soil-structure interaction; ground improvement; creep; earthquake; soft clay; liquefaction; DEM; ABAQUS; FLAC
Prof. Dr. Sebastiano Foti
Prof. Dr. Sebastiano Foti
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Structural, Geotechnical and Building Engineering (DISEG), Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
Interests: civil engineering; geotechnical earthquake engineering; applied geophysics; soil dynamics; soil-structure interaction
Dr. Salvatore Grasso
Dr. Salvatore Grasso
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy
Interests: seismic microzonation; soil liquefaction; soil-structure interaction; local site effects; site characterization
Prof. Dr. Marte Gutierrez
Prof. Dr. Marte Gutierrez
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA
Interests: geomechanics; constitutive modeling; bifurcation and strain localization; coupled hydro-thermo-mechanical modeling; particulate and discrete element modeling; underground construction and tunnelling; CO2 geological sequestration
Dr. Stuart K. Haigh
Dr. Stuart K. Haigh
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Editorial Board Member
Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK
Interests: earthquake geotechnical engineering; offshore soil mechanics; soil behaviour
Prof. Dr. Ferri Hassani
Prof. Dr. Ferri Hassani
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A0E8, Canada
Interests: rock mechanics; microwave application in rock breaking; drill monitoring; mine backfill; energy reduction in mines
Prof. Dr. Hemanta Hazarika
Prof. Dr. Hemanta Hazarika
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Civil Engineering/Department of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
Interests: recycled wastes and lightweight geomaterials in constructions; dynamic characteristics of geomaterials; ground improvement geosystem; environmental impact assessment due to ground improvement; earthquake hazard and mitigation; landslide protection; soil-structure interaction
Prof. Dr. Erdin Ibraim
Prof. Dr. Erdin Ibraim
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Editorial Board Member
School of Civil, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering (CAME), Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol, Queens Building, Room 1.31, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK
Interests: soil mechanics; granular materials; soil reinforcement; advanced soil laboratory testing; soil liquefaction; seismic structural vulnerability
Prof. Dr. Boris Jeremic
Prof. Dr. Boris Jeremic
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Interests: mechanics of elastic and inelastic solids and structures; deterministic and probabilistic modelling; analysis of earthquakes, soils, structures and their interaction
Prof. Dr. Ali Karrech
Prof. Dr. Ali Karrech
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Editorial Board Member
School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, The University of Western Australia, WA 6009, Australia
Interests: slope stability; limit analysis; numerical methods; mining; finite element method; poromechanics
Prof. Dr. Pinnaduwa Kulatilake
Prof. Dr. Pinnaduwa Kulatilake
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Mining & Geological Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Interests: rock joint and rock mass geometrical, mechanical, and hydraulic properties; rock joint roughness modeling; rock joint aperture modeling; mining & civil rock slope stability; mining & civil underground rock mass stability; application of probabilistic and statistical methods to rock mechanics and rock engineering; application of numerical methods to rock mechanics and rock engineering
Dr. Olga Mavrouli
Dr. Olga Mavrouli
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Civil Engineering, University of West Attica, 12241 Athens, Greece
Interests: slope stability; rockfalls; risk; landslides; vulnerability buildings; quantitative risk assessment
Prof. Dr. Yoshihisa Miyata
Prof. Dr. Yoshihisa Miyata
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National Defense Academy, 1-10-20 Hashirimizu, Yokosuka 239-8686, Japan
Interests: soil reinforcement; ground improvement; geotechnical reliability based design, numerical modeling, physical modeling
Dr. Morteza Nejati
Dr. Morteza Nejati
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Interests: fracture mechanics; finite element methods; computational mechanics; Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical coupling; geomechanics
Dr. Giang Nguyen
Dr. Giang Nguyen
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Editorial Board Member
School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Interests: constitutive modelling of geomaterials; numerical methods; computational mechanics; damage mechanics; plasticity theory
Prof. Dr. Brendan C. O'Kelly
Prof. Dr. Brendan C. O'Kelly
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, D02 PN40 Dublin, Ireland
Interests: Atterberg limits and water content determinations; ground improvement; geotechnics of water- and wastewater-treatment derived sludges; geomechanical behaviour/properties of peat and other highly organic soils
Prof. Dr. Rolando P. Orense
Prof. Dr. Rolando P. Orense
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland Mail Centre, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
Interests: geotechnical earthquake engineering/soil dynamics; soil liquefaction and ground remediation techniques; site and soil characterisation