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Geotechnical engineering is an experience-driven discipline. Field observations are particularly important because it is difficult to replicate in the laboratory the characteristics and response of soil deposits built by nature over thousands of years. Furthermore, much of the data generated by a major disaster is…

The Second Australia-New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics continues the sequence of conference which started in Melbourne in 1952 with the First Australia-New Zealand Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering.  This series continued to the 5th Conference in Auckland, 1967, after which the widening scope…