Intro
Preface
Organisation
IACMAG Board Officers
Local Organising Committee
Executive Board
Members
International Scientific Committee
Contents
Methods and Tools
Laboratory Testing, Field Testing and Monitoring
Evaluating the Potentiality of X-ray Tomography on the Quality Assessment of Grouted Soils
1 Introduction
2 Materials and Methods
3 Results and Discussion
4 Conclusions
References
Evaluation of Strain Recovery and Stress Sensitivity of Asphalt Binders Containing Warm-Mix Asphalt Additive and Anti-stripping Agent
1 Introduction

2 Materials
3 Experimental Methods
3.1 Dynamic Shear Rheometer Test
3.2 Multiple Stress Creep and Recovery Test
4 Results and Discussions
4.1 Dynamic Shear Rheometer Test
4.2 Multiple Stress Creep and Recovery Test
4.3 MSCR Grading of Binder Blends
4.4 Stress Sensitivity of Binder Blends
5 Conclusions
References
Particle Segmentation of 3D Silt Images from X-ray µ-CT for Fabric Analysis
1 Introduction
2 Materials and Methods
2.1 Material Tested and Specimen Preparation
2.2 Non-destructive X-ray Micro CT Imaging Equipment

3 Image Analysis for Particle Segmentation
4 Initial Results and Observations
5 Conclusions
References
Monitoring of Dry Granular Flows in Unsteady State Down an Inclined Chute
1 Introduction
2 Discrete Element Model
2.1 Grain Size and Shape Reconstruction
2.2 Calibration of DEM Parameters
3 Granular Flow Simulations
4 Results
4.1 Monitoring Plate
4.2 Monitoring Volume
5 Conclusions
References
Methods and Tools
Probabilistic Site Characterization and Data Analytics
Identification of Soil Strata from In-Situ Test Data Using Machine Learning

1 Introduction
2 Cone Penetration Test
3 Data
4 Machine Learning Methodology
5 Research Outcomes
6 Benchmark Test
7 Discussion and Conclusion
References
Water Retention Curves of Clayey Soils by Artificial Neural Networks with Uneven Datasets
1 Introduction
2 Methods
2.1 Dataset
2.2 Neural Network Model Development
2.3 Evaluation Criteria
3 Results and Discussion
4 Conclusion
References
Methods and Tools
Constitutive Modelling
3D Finite Element Application of Elastoplastic Constitutive Model for Intact Rock
1 Introduction

2 Framework of Elasto-Plastic Model
3 Implementation in Finite Element Method
4 Comparison of FEM with Test Data
5 Conclusions
References
A Semi-micromechanical Framework for Anisotropic Sands
1 Introduction
2 Multilaminate Framework
3 Constitutive Formulations
4 Anisotropy
5 Simulations and Comparison
6 Conclusion
References
A Robust Solution to Address Overshooting in Bounding Surface Plasticity Models
1 Introduction
2 The Model Proposed
3 Conclusions
Appendix 1. The Parameters Used
References