"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 such as soils and rocks. Emphasis is placed on the interplay between the geomechanical models and their engineering applications. Topics of interest include experimental, analytical, and numerical investigations into the mechanical, physical, hydraulic, and thermal properties of geomaterials as multiscale and multiphase media under different external agencies, drawing upon the various applications in geoengineering including (but not limited to) foundation, dam and embankment, underground construction, geohazard, georesource and geoenvironmental engineering. Papers with novel experimental, analytical and/or numerical approaches are welcome; however, experimental papers must be accompanied by mechanistic interpretations and/or modeling of the laboratory phenomena, unless the paper focuses on new testing instruments or new technologies. Manuscripts lacking in novelty or proposing incremental improvements to existing literature – in particular, marginal extensions of laboratory or numerical procedures – will not be considered for review.  In addition to the scientific merit and novelty, the contributions for publication are selected for their application potential in geoengineering leading to reliable prediction and rational and sustainable design. The journal publishes research papers, review articles, short notes, and discussions, which will be published together with a reply from the authors. For review articles, the authors should approach an editor for permission before submission. Two-part papers are discouraged.

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