October 1, 2008 

NON-COAXIAL THEORIES OF PLASTICITY FOR GRANULAR MATERIALS

   Hai-Sui Yu, School of Civil Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

ENERGY AND GEOTECHNOLOGY - Revisiting Soil Behavior

   J. Carlos Santamarina, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of  

   Technology, Atlanta, USA

October 2, 2008 

A SOIL-WATER COUPLED ANALYSIS OF THE DEFORMATION OF AN UNSATURATED RIVER EMBANKMENT DUE TO SEEPAGE FLOW AND OVERFLOW

  F. Oka, Department of Civil and Earth Resources Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan

INTERNATIONAL DATA EXCHANGE: THE FUTURE FOR GEO-ENGINEERING

  D. G. Toll, School of Engineering, Durham University, Durham, UK

October 3, 2008 

ELASTO-PLASTIC MODELLING OF UNSATURATED SOILS: An Overview

  Daichao Sheng, Centre for Geotechnical & Material Modelling, The University of Newcastle, Australia

MODELLING THE RESPONSE OF ARGILLACEOUS ROCKS IN UNDERGROUND EXCAVATIONS

  Antonio Gens, Geotechnical Engineering and Geosciences, Universit at Politècnica de Catalunya,

  Barcelona, Spain

October 4, 2008 

LARGE SCALE COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION IN GEOTECHNICAL EARTHQUAKE ENGIN EERING

  Ahmed Elgamal, Dept. of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego, USA

APPLICATION OF A MULTILAMINATE MODEL FOR SOILS TO PRACTICAL BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS

  Helmut F. Schweiger, Computational Geotechnics Group, Institute for Soil Mechanics and

  Foundation Engineering,  Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

October 5, 2008 

LARGE DEFORMATION FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS FOR OFFSHORE APPLICATIONS

  Mark Randolph, Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, The University of Western, Australia

THE STRESS-STRAIN-STRENGTH BEHAVIOUR OF A COMPLETELY COMPOSED GRANITE SOIL MEASURED USING A NEW ADVANCED TRUE TRIAXIAL TESTING SYSTEM

  J. H. Yin, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

  Hong Kong

October 6, 2008 

NEED FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR CIVIL ENGINEERS AND ASCE’S ROLE IN PROVIDING THIS EDUCATION

  Sanjeev Kumar, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA

A BROADER ROLE FOR NUMERICAL MODELING IN PROJECT EXECUTION

  Conrad W. Felice, LACHEL FELICE & Associates, Kirkland, USA