Keynote Addresses and Invited Lectures
(I) Keynote Address
E.E. Alonso, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Degradation of Argillaceous Rocks: A Challenge for Unsaturated Geomechanics
D.G. Fredlund, Golder Associates Ltd., Canada
Protocols for Preliminary and Final Engineering Designs Involving Unsaturated Soils
C.W.W. Ng, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKSAR
Influence of Soil Suction on Anisotropic Small-Strain Stiffness of Unsaturated Soils
(II) Invited Lectures
R. Kitamura, Kagoshima University, Japan
Mechanics for particulate material based on mechanical and probabilistic consideration on particle scale.
L. Laloui, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Advanced Constitutive Modelling for Unsaturated Soils Including Double-Sided Hydro-Mechanical Coupling
J.D. Nelson, Colorado State University, USA.
Design Principles for Piles in Expansive Soils
H. Rahardjo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Application of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics to Capillary Barrier System for Slope Stabilization