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Do you have the experience and leadership skills to take a technical session from draft papers through final papers and onsite execution? If that answer is yes, we need you! Contact us for more details.

Join us as a technical paper peer reviewer
This is your chance to lend your expertise to the technicalnical program. Join the team of peer reviwers for Geotechnical Frontiers 2025.

Abstract submissions are now closed.
Geotechnical authors – thank you for your overwhelming response!

Questions? Contact barbara.connett@textiles.org.

Special Topics for Geotechnical Frontiers 2025

• Adding resiliency – Including resilient features in geotechnical designs, quantification of resiliency incorporated
• AI and machine learning applications – What are the current and near-future opportunities for artificial intelligence in the Geotechnical community?
• Asset Management – Strategies for the management of physical assets based on engineering and economic performance and goals related to the operation, maintenance, and improvement of assets throughout their lifecycle
• Climate change – Addressing the impacts of climate change on geotechnical infrastructure, including rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and changes in temperature and precipitation patterns; Developing resilient solutions and designs that account for climate-related challenges
• Drones/unmanned testing – Innovative and state of practice applications of drone technology
• Geospatial and non-destructive technologies – Leveraging cutting-edge geospatial and non-destructive technologies, including remote sensing, geospatial data analysis, and non-invasive testing methods, to provide detailed insights into subsurface conditions, foundation stability, and infrastructure health; Optimizing project planning and decision-making with accurate geotechnical data
• Geotechnics for renewable energies – Geotechnical engineering for wind, solar, water, and other renewable power sources and for battery production
• Hazard mitigation – Focuses on mitigating geotechnical-related hazards, such as earthquakes, landslides, and flooding; Strategies to minimize risks, enhance preparedness, and protect infrastructure and communities against natural and human-induced hazards
• Highways and Bridges – Improving performance through Innovations in materials, design, and construction
• Landslides – Characterizing, understanding, and managing unstable soils and rock
• Management of Resilient Infrastructure – Innovative strategies or technologies focused on the management of sustainable and resilient infrastructure including identifying vulnerabilities, resource allocation, community resilience, flexible or dual-use infrastructure, and the design and implementation of resilient solutions
• Risk-Informed Geotechnics – Probabilistic, Reliability, and Risk-Informed geotechnical solutions and construction

Core Geotechnical Engineering Topics

• Computational Geotechnics
• Data and Software for Geotechnical Engineering
• Deep Foundations
• Earth Retaining Structures
• Education
• Embankments, Dams, and Slopes
• Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
• Engineering Geology and Site Characterization
• Geoenvironmental Engineering
• Geophysical Engineering
• Geosynthetics
• Geotechnics of Soil Erosion
• Pavements
• Risk Assessment and Management
• Rock Mechanics
• Shallow Foundations
• Soil Improvement
• Soil Properties and Modeling
• Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering
• Underground Engineering and Construction
• Unsaturated Soils