Abstracts should generally align with the following topics, but sessions may be added for groups of abstracts which share a common theme not listed below.​

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Soil Mechanics, Foundations and Excavations

• Fundamental and Applied Soil Mechanics, Unsaturated Soils and Problematic Soils

• Shallow and Deep Foundations

• Soil-Structure Interaction

• Excavations, Retaining Structures and Shoring Systems

• Foundation Performance, Rehabilitation and Underpinning

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Site Investigation and Monitoring

• Site Investigation and Geotechnical Characterization

• Geophysical and Remote Sensing Methods

• Advanced Laboratory Testing

• In Situ Testing and Field Measurements

• Instrumentation, Monitoring and Observational Methods

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Rock Mechanics, Engineering Geology and Underground Works

• Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, Rock Characterization, Testing and Modeling

• Engineering Geology and Geological Hazards

• Rock Slopes, Stability and Risk Management

• Tunneling and Underground Construction

• Caverns, Shafts and Trenchless Technologies

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Geoenvironmental Engineering and Sustainability

• Geoenvironmental Engineering

• Sustainable Geotechnics

• Waste Containment and Barrier Systems

• Contaminated Sites Assessment and Remediation

• Beneficial Reuse of Waste and Alternative Materials

• Environmental Performance of Geotechnical Infrastructure

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Geohazards and Ground Improvement

• Landslides - Assessment and Stabilization

• Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering

• Land Subsidence and Ground Deformation

• Ground Improvement

• Soil Liquefaction

• Risk Assessment, Mitigation and Resilience

• Geosynthetics

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Mining and Critical Minerals Geotechnics

• Tailings Storage Facilities and Dam Safety

• Underground Mining Geomechanics and Backfill

• Mine waste management, Closure and Reclamation

• Open Pit and Mine Slope Stability

• Mine water management, hydrology and hydrogeology

• Geotechnical Challenges in Critical Minerals Development

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Digital, Computational and Data-Driven Geotechnics

• Numerical Modeling and Computational Geotechnics

• Constitutive, Multiphysics and Coupled Process Modeling

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications

• Digital Twins and Smart Infrastructure

• Instrumentation and Monitoring

• Remote Sensing, Geospatial Analytics and Big Data

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Cold Regions and Northern Infrastructure

• Frozen Ground Mechanics and Characterization

• Permafrost Engineering and Freeze-Thaw Processes

• Climate Change Effects on Northern Infrastructure

• Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Behavior of Frozen Ground

• Transportation and Community Infrastructure in Northern Regions

• Monitoring, Adaptation and Resilience of Arctic Infrastructure

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Infrastructure, Transportation and Hydraulic Geotechnics

• Transportation Geotechnics

• Dam, Levees and Embankment Engineering

• Groundwater Engineering

• Coastal, Marine and Port Geotechnics

• Urban, Municipal and Buried Infrastructure

• Asset Management, Rehabilitation and Life-Cycle Performance

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Energy and Nuclear Geotechnics

• Geotechnics for Nuclear Energy Facilities

• Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste

• Geothermal Engineering and Energy Geostructures

• Offshore and Renewable Energy Geotechnics

• Underground Energy Storage

• Carbon Capture and Geological Storage

• Geotechnics for Hydrogen and Emerging Energy Infrastructure

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Special Geotechnical Themes

• Emerging Materials and Technologies

• Future Challenges and Opportunities for Geotechnical Engineering

• Climate Resilience and Adaptation of Geotechnical Infrastructure

• Risk, Reliability, and Performance-Based Geotechnical Design

• AI, Data Science, and Digital Technologies in Geotechnical Engineering

• Energy and Nuclear Geotechnics