"Acta Geotechnica" is an international journal devoted to the publication and dissemination of basic and applied research in geoengineering – an interdisciplinary field dealing with geomaterials (soils and rocks). Emphasis is placed on the interplay between the geomechanical models and their engineering applications. The journal welcomes original research papers on the fundamental concepts in geomechanics and their novel applications in geoengineering based on experimental, analytical and/or numerical approaches. In addition to the scientific merit, the contributions for publication are selected for their application potential in geoengineering leading to reliable prediction and rational and sustainable design. The main purpose of the journal is to foster deep understanding of the fundamental mechanisms behind the phenomena and processes in geomaterials, from kilometer-scale problems as they occur in geoscience, to a much finer scale up to and including the nano-scale, as well as their potential impact to geoengineering. The journal intends to capture and archive the advancement in the field of geoengineering in a timely manner and in one place.
The journal contains research papers, review articles, short notes and letters to the editors. The topics of interest include experimental, analytical and numerical investigations into the mechanical, physical, hydraulic and thermal properties of geomaterials as multiphase media under different external agencies, e.g. monotonic, cyclic, static, dynamic, transient and longterm loading, drawing upon the various applications in geoengineering, e.g. foundation, dam, mining, tunnelling, geohazard, geoenvironmental and petroleum engineering.

Editor-in-Chief:
W. Wu
Institut für Geotechnik
Universität für Bodenkultur
Feistmantelstr. 4, 1180 Vienna, Austria
E-mail: wei.wu@boku.ac.at
Editors:
R. I. Borja
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4020, USA
E-mail: borja@stanford.edu
J. Chu
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
Nanyang Technological University 
Blk N1, 50 Nanyang Ave
639798, Singapore
Email: cjchu@ntu.edu.sg
Advisory Board:
R. Dobry
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA
G. Gudehus
Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
A. Pecker
École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
J. R. Rice
Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
Editorial Board:
J. E. Andrade
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
B. Caicedo
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
R. J. Finno
Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
M. Gutierrez
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA 
I. Herle
Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
A. B. Huang
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
L. Laloui
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
D. Mašín
Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
H. B. Mühlhaus
The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
S. Nordal
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
R. A. Regueiro 
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
E. Romero
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
H.Saito
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
D. Sheng
University of Technology (UTS), Sydney, Australia
J. Sulem
Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Marne la Vallée, France
C. Tamagnini
Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
A. Tarantino
The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
J. Tejchman 
Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland
T. Triantafyllidis
Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
A. Trivedi
Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India
F.-J. Ulm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
R. G. Wan
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
J.Yang
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
J. M. Zhang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China