Author Description

This book compiles the first part of contributions to the China-Europe Conference on Geotechnical Engineering held 13-16 August 2016 in Vienna, Austria. The responses following our call for papers were overwhelming and echoed well beyond China and Europe. We have received about 400 papers from 35 countries, which make this conference a truly international event. The contributions in this proceedings cover virtually all areas of geotechnical engineering including constitutive model; numerical simulation; micro-macro relationship; laboratory testing; monitoring, instrumentation, and field test; foundation engineering; underground construction; innovative geomaterials; environmental geotechnics; cold regions geotechnical engineering; transportation and hydraulic engineering; unsaturated soils in waste management and CO2 storage; geohazards-risk assessment, mitigation, and prevention. The proceedings provide an excellent overview of the current geoengineering research and practice in China, Europe, and beyond.