The main topics of the conference are the following:
- Microstructure
- Advances in experimental methods
- Water retention and transport properties
- Mechanical behaviour
- Physical modelling
- Thermal and chemical effects
- Fundamentals
- Constitutive modelling
- Numerical modelling
- Nuclear waste disposals
- Gas storage
- Soil-vegetation-atmosphere interactions
- Foundations
- Slope stability
- Dams and dykes
- Transportation infrastructures
- Geo-environmental applications
- Case histories