Aims and Scope

The IACMAG conference series has covered computer methods, material modeling and testing, applications to a wide range of geomechanical problems, and recent advances in various areas that may not necessarily involve computer methods. The first conference in this series was held at Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, (USA)-1972, and the subsequent were held in Blacksburg (USA)-1976, Aachen (Germany)-1979, Edmonton (Canada)-1982, Nagoya (Japan)-1985, Innsbruck (Austria)-1988, Cairns (Australia)-1991, Morgantown (USA)-1994, Wuhan (China)-1997, Tucson (USA)-2001, and Turin (Italy)–2005.

The 12^th Conference (1 to 6 October 2008, to be held in Goa, India) will address recent developments and relevant issues in computer methods, constitutive models and applications to different areas of Geomechanics, and emerging and important topics, and future needs, documented case studies with integration of theory, laboratory and field tests, and validation procedures. This will be consistent with the continuing theme of IACMAG conferences and the International Journal of Geomechanics, namely Fundamentals through Applications.

The special theme for the 12^th International Conference has been chosen as Geomechanics in the Emerging Social & Technological Age. The conference will endeavor to stress on problems raised by the present day society due to rapid industrialization and globalization, in addition to the objectives covered by the previous conferences. The conference aims to focus on some very recent and emerging trends in geomechanics such as mechanics of unsaturated soils, micromechanics, nanomechanics, bio-geo interface, infrastructure geomechanics and geomechanics for ancient monuments.