All the four issues of 2010 of our Journal are now in the Web at: http://www.seags.ait.ac.th/

Also, there are over forty submissions for the 2011 Issues. We intend to have six issues from 2012. If you can help us with papers, kindly contact me, or Dr. Ooi or Professor Bergado.

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Bala
Geotechnical Engineering: SEAGS-AGSSEA JOURNAL (2012): Guest Editors
(1) Advanced Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and Engineering: Prof. Charles W.W. Ng
Professor Charles W.W. Ng is a Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Director of Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility and an Associate Dean of Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He obtained his Ph. D from the University of Bristol, UK in 1992; and subsequently joined the University of Cambridge as a Research Associate before returning to Hong Kong in 1995. He was elected as an Overseas Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, in 2005. Professor Ng is a Charted Civil Engineer (CEng) and Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE), the American Society of Civil Engineers (FASCE), the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE) and Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences (FHKEng). Recently he has been elected as Chang Jiang Scholar (Chair Professorship) by the Ministry of Education in China and appointed as a Board Member of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Currently he is Associate Editor of the Canadian Geotechnical Journal. He has published widely on slope instability problems, behaviour of saturated and unsaturated soils, soil-structure interaction problems such as tunnels, piles and deep excavations. He is the main author of two reference books including Soil-Structure Engineering of Deep Foundations, Excavations and Tunnels and Advanced Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and Engineering.

(2) Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering: Prof. Ikuo Towhata
Prof. Ikuo Towhata had his engineering education at the prestigious Tokyo University in Japan and is currently a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering. Tokyo University is traditionally very strong in Soil Dynamics, Machine Foundations and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering now for several decades. Also recently, Prof. Towhata has written a comprehensive and scholarly book in this discipline (see Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, 2008: publisher Springer). Prof. Towhata was also the Editor in Chief of the well known Journal, Soils and Foundations. He is an active member of several national and international committee on landslides, earthquake engineering. A recipient of several prestigious awards, Prof. To whata’s interest in Geotechnics is very wide and are on deformation characteristics of sands, dynamic analysis of earth structures, soil improvement by densification and grouting, stability of slopes and seabeds under static and dynamic conditions, landslides and debris flows, seismic performance based design of geotechnical structures. Author of more than 250 publications, Prof. Towhata has lectured in many leading universities in most continents.

(3) Geosynthetics and Sanitary Landfills: Prof. Malek Bouazza
Prof. Malek Bouazza is very prominent in technical and professional society activities and serves on a number of international technical committees. Currently, he is a member of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) council and chair of the Asian Activities Committee of the International Geosynthetics Society. He is a core member of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) Technical Committee No5 (TC5) on Environmental Geotechnics, Vice-President of the Australasian Chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society (ACIGS), co-chair of the International Geosynthetics Society Education Committee and a member of the Standard Australia committee C20 on Geosynthetics. He is editorial board member of 5 International Journals and very active as a reviewer for several international journals.

Dr. Bouazza has published widely in international journals and refereed conferences and is the author or co-author of more than 180 refereed publications... His skills and experience in the area of waste containment facilities and geosynthetics are well recognized in Australia and abroad. He has been invited to deliver and contribute to several keynote lectures and state of the art reports in international conferences in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America, and delivers short courses on geosynthetics, and liners and cover systems for waste containment facilities on a regular basis locally and internationally. In addition to his academic commitments, Dr. Bouazza gives specialist advice for the industry both nationally and internationally.

(4) In-situ Tests and Instrumentation: Tom Lunne, NGI & Prof. Don De Groot
Tom Lunne educated in Heriot-Watt University in UK and in University of California Berkeley, is currently Technical Advisor and Manager of the Offshore Soil Investigations at NGI. He has wide geotechnical engineering background from both consulting and research. Major fields of work relate to: Laboratory testing, In situ testing, Field observations, Evaluation of soil parameters; Planning, specifying and managing large offshore soil investigations. Tom has worked in major projects in Brazil, Benin, Denmark, Great Britain, India, Italy, Malaysia, Sweden, USA, Latvia, Mexico, Holland, Venezuela and Iceland. Among other projects, his activities have been with Duyong and Pulai Fields Shallow Gas Studies, Malaysia; Soil investigation Keilisnes, Harbour, Iceland; Zelazny Most Tailings Dam Poland; Tunu and SISI Shallow Gas Studies, Indonesia; and DeRuyter GBS soil investigation, Holland.
Tom has given invited lectures and presentations at conferences and courses in USA, Canada, Brazil, France, Poland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland, Ireland, Holland, Japan, Great Britain, Australia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Portugal, and Venezuela. He is a Core Member of Committee on In Situ Testing, TC-16,; International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (1982-todate); Member of Scandinavian Committee on Field Investigations, 1993-2004; Chairman of Norwegian Committee on Field Investigations, 1993-2004; Member of Committee of European Standard of CPT, (2001 to date ).
Author or co-author of more than 100 papers, publications and technical notes to professional journals and conferences, Tom is the main author of the popular textbook on Cone Penetration Tests.

Dr. Don DeGroot: Dr. Don J. DeGroot is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a registered Professional Engineer in the USA. He received his Doctor of Science degree in geotechnical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. His teaching, research and consultancy experience is primarily in the area of soil behavior and environmental geotechnics with an emphasis on laboratory and field measurements for site characterization programs. Dr. DeGroot has been a Principal/Co-Principal Investigator on research projects sponsored by the USA DOD, FHWA, MassDOT, NCHRP, NSF, NRL and VTrans. He is currently PI of the $2.4 million NSF PIRE project on Developing International Protocols for Offshore Sediments and their Role in Geohazards: Characterization, Assessment, and Mitigation. He has published refereed research findings in many of the major geotechnical engineering journals, ASCE Geotechnical Special Publications, ASTM Special Technical Publications and TRB publications. National and international conferences activities include several Keynote and State-of-the-Art papers and presentations. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering and the Geotechnical Testing Journal and served as Chair of the ASCE Geo-Institute Soil Properties and Modeling Committee. Teaching and research awards include the James L. Tighe Civil Engineering Distinguished Teaching Award, United Technologies Corporation Outstanding Laboratory Teaching Award, Research Council of Norway Guest Researcher Fellowship, University of Western Australia Gledden Visiting Senior Fellowship, and the CEE Research Excellence Award.

(5) Soil Behaviour Modelling: Prof. Angelo Amorosi
Associate Professor Angelo Amorosi of the Technical University of Bari will be the Guest Editor for the Issue on Constitutive Equations for soil Behaviour. Angelo had his education including his Doctoral Degree from University of Rome. He was also a Visiting Academic at the University of Oxford with Prof. Guy Houlsby. The research interest of Angelo is on : (1) Experimental investigation on the mechanical behaviour of clayey soils with particular reference to ‘very small strain stiffness’ as observed by dynamic testing technique; evolution of the mechanical response due to: strain induced ‘structure’ (i.e. bonding) degradation process, isotropic or anisotropic stress histories and recent cyclic stress history; (2) Constitutive modelling of saturated soils in the frame of multi-surface hardening plasticity; application of thermo-mechanical principles to the modelling of elastic and elasto-plastic coupled behaviour of saturated soils; (3) Constitutive modelling of masonry and its application to model ancient structures; Computational plasticity, with particular reference to implicit/explicit integration schemes for complex constitutive models; (4) Finite Element analyses of geotechnical boundary value problems: excavation and tunnelling in clayey soils, interaction between underground excavations and surface masonry structures, seismic site effects, seismic behaviour of earth dams and tunnels.

An active researcher with several sponsored research projects sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Education, Angelo has been a Referee for reviewing articles in many journals: Geotechnique, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering, Acta Geotechnica, Italian Geotechnical Journal, International Journal of Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering.

Angelo has published very widely in Geotechnique; ASCE, Journal of the Geotechnical and Geoenviromental Engineering Division; International Journal of Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics; Italian Geotechnical Journal; Soil Dynamic and Earthquake Engineering. He has also published extensively in International and Regional Conferences.

(6)Tunnelling in Soils & Rocks
A special issue on tunnelling aspects in soils and rocks would be edited under the leadership of Prof. Paul Marinos . Dr Paul Marinos received a Mining Engineering degree from the School of Mines of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1966, a postgraduate degree in Applied Geology from the University of Grenoble, France, and his Doctorate in Engineering Geology from the same University in 1969. He worked for French and Greek design and construction companies until 1977 and then was elected as Professor at Democritus University in Northern Greece. Since 1988 Dr Marinos has been Professor of Engineering Geology in the School of Civil Engineering in the National Technical University of Athens and has served as head of the Geotechnical Section of the School for several years. From 2001 to 2004 and from 2006 to 2008 he was the Director of a Graduate Course in Tunneling and Underground Construction. He was a visiting Professor in the Geology Department of the University of Grenoble (1987) and of the School of Mines in Paris (2003). Dr Marinos is a member of AEG and GSA and fellow of the Geological Society of London. He is a past President of the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG), immediate past president of the Geological Society of Greece, past president of the Greek chapter of the International Tunnelling Association and honorary member of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH).

Dr Paul Marinos has received several awards, including the Hans Cloos medal of IAEG, and the Andre Dumont medal of the Geological Society of Belgium. He was selected for the presentation of named lectures, including the 6th Glossop Lecture in London (2002), the 19th Rocha Lecture in Lisbon (2002), the 33rd Cross Canada Lectures Tour (2005), the Rock Mechanics annual Lecture in Madrid (2006) and as 2010 R. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer by AEG and GSA. Dr Marinos and his team conduct research on a variety of applications of geology to engineering, mainly rock mass characterization, weak rock properties and behavior, with special emphasis to tunnel design. His work also covers landslides, dam geology, and engineering in karstic terrain. His other significant interest is the protection of historic monuments and archeological sites. Dr Marinos has authored or co-authored over 300 papers in journals or major conference proceedings. He was a key or invited lecturer in more than 40 conferences or special events. He has given lectures to University Courses or Workshops, among them the Federal Technical University (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Polytecnico of Turin, Italy, the University of Durham, U.K., the University of Coimbra, Portugal, the University of Kobe, Japan, the Black Sea University Romania, the Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Greece, and the Griffiths University, Australia. He has edited proceedings published by international publishers. Dr Marinos is Co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal “Geotechnical and Geological Engineering” and a member of the Editorial Board of a number of prominent journals as “Engineering Geology”, “Bulletin of the International Association of Geology”,” Landslides”, “Environmental Geology”, “Rock Mechanics” and from 2009 “Environmental and Engineering Geosciences”.
Dr Paul Marinos has extensive industrial experience having served as consultant, independent reviewer and member of consulting boards or panel of experts on major civil engineering projects in Ecuador, France, Greece, India, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, South East Asia, Spain, Sweden and Turkey.