Journal of Geotechnical Engineering

Journal of Geotechnical Engineering

Journal of Geotechnical Engineering [2394-1987(e)] is a peer-reviewed hybrid open-access journal launched in 2014 aiming contributions in the form of Research articles, Review articles, Short articles, and Discussions related to the field of Geotechnical Engineering are accepted. The Journal covers all major areas involved in Geotechnical engineering.

• Soil mechanics and soil behaviour: soil composition, mineralogy, and fabric, index properties and classification, effective stress principles, shear strength of cohesive and granular soils, consolidation and settlement, compressibility and creep, critical state behaviour, and cyclic and dynamic soil response.
• Rock mechanics and engineering geology: intact rock and rock mass behaviour, discontinuity characterisation and rock mass classification, rock strength and deformability, in-situ stress measurement, rock slope and underground excavation stability, and rock bolting and support design.
• Site investigation and in-situ testing: subsurface exploration and borehole logging, standard and cone penetration testing, vane shear, pressuremeter, and dilatometer testing, geophysical survey methods, sampling quality and disturbance, and interpretation of in-situ data for design parameters.
• Laboratory testing and characterisation: grain size and index testing, triaxial and direct shear testing, oedometer and consolidation testing, permeability measurement, cyclic and resonant column testing, and advanced element testing for constitutive model calibration.
• Shallow and deep foundations: bearing capacity and settlement analysis, footings, rafts, and combined foundations, driven and bored pile design, pile load testing and dynamic pile analysis, pile groups and lateral loading, soil–structure interaction, and foundations on problematic soils.
• Earth retaining structures and excavations: lateral earth pressure theory, gravity, cantilever, and anchored walls, sheet pile and diaphragm walls, braced and top-down excavations, excavation-induced ground movement, and reinforced soil and mechanically stabilised earth walls.
• Slope stability and landslides: limit equilibrium and numerical stability analysis, natural and engineered slope behaviour, embankment and earth dam stability, landslide mechanisms, triggering, and runout, slope monitoring and early warning, and stabilisation and remediation measures.
• Ground improvement and soil reinforcement: compaction and dynamic consolidation, vibro stone columns and vibro compaction, jet grouting and deep soil mixing, chemical and biological stabilisation, preloading and vertical drains, geosynthetic reinforcement, and performance verification of treated ground.
• Geotechnical earthquake engineering: site response analysis and ground motion amplification, liquefaction triggering, consequences, and mitigation, seismic slope and retaining wall stability, dynamic soil–structure interaction, seismic design of foundations, and physical modelling including shake table and centrifuge testing.
• Seepage, groundwater, and unsaturated soils: flow through porous media, seepage analysis and flow nets, dewatering and drainage design, internal erosion and piping, suction and unsaturated soil behaviour, expansive and collapsible soils, and frost and thermal effects in soils.
• Geoenvironmental engineering: landfill siting, liner and cover system design, geosynthetic clay and barrier systems, leachate generation and containment, contaminant transport through soils, tailings and mine waste storage, ground remediation techniques, and beneficial reuse of waste materials in geotechnical works.
• Tunnelling and underground construction: tunnel face stability and support design, ground response and convergence, settlement induced by tunnelling, TBM and conventional excavation performance, and interaction between tunnels and adjacent structures.
• Computational and physical modelling: constitutive model development and validation, finite element and finite difference analysis, discrete element modelling of granular media, reliability and probabilistic geotechnical design, centrifuge and scale model testing, and data-driven and machine learning approaches in geotechnics.