Geomechanics from micro to macro. Volume 1 / Геомеханика от микро до макро. Том 1

The International Symposium on Geomechanics from Micro to Macro (IS-Cambridge 2014) was held from the 1st to the 3rd of September 2014, at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. This was the third symposium organised under the auspices of Technical Committee 105 (Geo-Mechanics from Micro to Macro) of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). The first symposium was held at Yamaguchi University, Japan, in 2006, which was followed by the second symposium at Tongji University, China, in 2010.
The University of Cambridge’s Geotechnical Group has long standing research experience on the fundamental behaviour of geomaterials. It is the birth place of ‘Cam-clay’ model, which revolutionised the discipline of ‘soil mechanics’and ‘plasticity theory’. It has been promoting the critical state concept, stress-dilatancy relationship and constitutive modelling through centrifuge testing, field testing and numerical modelling.We have also actively engaged in micromechanics and its link to macro-behaviour, which led to the development of ISSMGE Technical Committee 105 (formerly TC35) by Professor Malcolm Bolton in 2000. It was therefore natural for us to host this Symposium.<...>