The journal welcomes manuscripts that substantially contribute to the understanding of the complex mechanical behaviour of geomaterials (soils, rocks, concrete, ice, snow, and powders), through innovative experimental techniques, and/or through the development of novel numerical or hybrid experimental/numerical modelling concepts in geomechanics. Topics of interest include instabilities and localization, interface and surface phenomena, fracture and failure, multi-physics and other time-dependent phenomena, micromechanics and multi-scale methods, and inverse analysis and stochastic methods. Papers related to energy and environmental issues are particularly welcome. The illustration of the proposed methods and techniques to engineering problems is encouraged. However, manuscripts dealing with applications of existing methods, or proposing incremental improvements to existing methods – in particular marginal extensions of existing analytical solutions or numerical methods – will not be considered for review. The journal publishes full-length papers, which normally will be less than 20 journal pages in length, and short communications, which can be at most 6 journal pages. Two-part papers are discouraged.

EDITORS
 
Félix Darve
Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble
Laboratoire 3S-IMG. B.P. 53
38041 Grenoble
France
Felix.Darve@3sr-grenoble.fr
 
René de Borst
The Centenary Professor of Civil Engineering
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
The University of Sheffield
Sir Frederick Mappin Building, Mappin Street
Sheffield S1 3JD, UK
r.deborst@sheffield.ac.uk
 
Andrew J. Whittle
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room 1-353
77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge
MA 02139-4307
USA
ajwhittl@mit.edu
 
Ronaldo I. Borja
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford
California 94305-4020
USA
borja@stanford.edu
 
Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot
Laboratoire des fl uides complexes et leurs reservoirs (UMR 5150)
ISA BTP
Allee du Parc Montaury
64600 Anglet
France
Gilles.Pijaudier-Cabot@univ-pau.fr
 
 
EDITORIAL BOARD
 
J. E. Andrade
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, U.S.A.
 
C. Arson
Georgia Institute of Technology
USA
 
Z. P. Bazant
Northwestern University
Evanston, U.S.A.
 
J. G. Berryman
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, USA
 
A. Bobet
Purdue University
U.S.A.
 
Giuseppe Buscarnera
Northwestern University
USA
 
B. Cambou
Ecole Centrale de Lyon
Cedex, France
 
G. Cusatis
Northwestern University
U.S.A.
 
E. Detournay
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, U.S.A.
 
C. di Prisco
Politecnico di Milano
Italy
 
L. Dormieux
Ecole des Ponts ParisTech
France
 
A. Gens
Universidad Politecnica de Cataluñya
Barcelona, Spain
 
Y. M. A Hashash
University of Illinois
Urbana-Chamapign, U.S.A.
 
G. T. Houlsby
Oxford University
Oxford, U.K.
 
A. Huerta
Universidad Politecnica de Cataluñya
Barcelona, Spain   S. Iai
Kyoto University
Uji, Japan
Chungxiao Jiang
Tsinghua University
China
 
B. Jeremić
University of California
Davis, U.S.A.
 
M. Jirasek
Czech Technical University
Prague, Czech Republic
 
E. Kausel
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
Cambridge, U.S.A.
 
D. Kolymbas
University of Innsbruck
Austria
 
L. Laloui
EPFL-LMS
Switzerland
 
G. Meschke
Ruhr University
Germany
 
R. L. Michalowski
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, U.S.A
 
D. Muir Wood
University of Dundee
U.K.
 
F. Nicot
IRSTEA
France
 
F. Oka
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan
 
M. Pastor
Polytechnical University of Madrid
Spain
 
K. K. Phoon
National University of Singapore
Singapore
 
J. H. Prevost
Princeton University
Princeton, U.S.A.
 
M. F. Randolph
University of Western Australia
Nedlands, Australia
 
R. A. Regueiro
University of Colorado at Boulder
U.S.A.
 
J. Rudnicki
Northwestern University
Evanston, U.S.A.
 
B. Schrefler
Universita di Padova
Padova, Italy
 
A. P. S. Selvadurai
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
 
J.-F. Shao
Polytech'Lille
Lille, France
 
K. Soga
University of California, Berkeley
USA
 
E. Song
Tsinghua University
China
 
H. R. Thomas
Cardiff University
Cardiff, U.K.
 
F.-J. Ulm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, U.S.A.
 
R. Wan
University of Calgary
Canada  J. White
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
USA
Jian-Ying Wu
South China University of Technology,
China
 
C. Zhao
Computational Geocsiences Research Centre
Central South University, Changsha, China
 
J. Zhao
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong     
EDITORS EMERITI
 
Stein Sture
University of Colorado
 
Ian M. Smith
University of Manchester