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This book presents developments and trends including: experimental investigations into deformation properties; laboratory, in-situ, and field observation interpretations; behavior characterization and modeling; and case histories. The contributions emphasize exploring recent investigations into anisotropy and non-linearity, effects of stress-strain-time history, ageing and time effects, yielding, failure and flow, cyclic and dynamic behavior. It applies advanced geotechnical testing to real engineering problems and to ways of synthesizing information from a range of sources while engaging in practical site characterization studies.