Modern Trends in Geomechanics

General Aspects.- Energy Methods for Constitutive Modelling in Geomechanics.- Physical Background of Hypoplasticity.- Thermodynamics of Porous Continua.- Effective Stress Formulation of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics.- Progress in Binary Medium Modeling of Geological Materials.- Constitutive Modelling.- Generic Constitutive Ingredients in CSSM Models for Sands.- State Boundary Surface in Hypoplasticity.- Modelling of Bonded Soils with Unstable Structure.- An Evaluation of Different Constitutive Models to Predict the Directional Response of a Reconstituted Fine-Grained Soil.- Two Elastoplastic Models for Small and Large Strains and Their Use in Engineering Practise.- Elastic Visco-Plastic Models for the Time-Dependent Stress-Strain Behaviour of Geomaterials.- Micromechanics.- Micro-Polar Effects under Monotonic and Cyclic Shearing.- Modeling the Post-localization Regime with Local Second Gradient Models: Non-uniqueness of Solutions and Nonpersistent Shear Bands.- Confined Compression and Rod Penetration of a Dense Granular Medium: Discrete Element Modelling and Validation.- Application of Discrete Element Method to Geomechanics.- The Role of Particle Crushing in Granular Materials.- Micromechanical Study of Damage and Permeability Variation in Brittle Rocks.- Analytical and Numerical Methods.- Hydrologically Driven Slope Failure Initiation in Variably Saturated Porous Media.- A Survey of Some Mathematical Results for Highly Frictional Granular Materials.- Double-Slip and Spin: Dilatant Shear in a Reduced Cosserat Model.- The Linear Matching Method for Limit and Shakedown Analysis.- On Recent Analytical Results for Advective Transport in Fluid-Saturated Porous Media.- Granular Materials: Theory and Experiment.- Unusual Soil Behaviour and its Challenge to ConstitutiveModelling.- Histotropy of Hostun RF Loose Sand.- Incremental Nonlinearity in Phenomenological and Multiscale Constitutive Relations.- Long-term Deformations in Soils due to Cyclic Loading.- On the Factors

Advisory Committee J.P. Carter. W-F. Chen, F. Darve, M. Bolton, A. Gens, G. Gudehus, D. Kolymbas, P.V. Lade, R. Nova, F. Oka, R.K. Rowe , A.P.S. Selvadurai, Z-J. Shen, A.J.M. Spencer, I. Vardoulakis.