This volume discusses issues related to unsaturated soil mechanics and rock engineering based on technical papers focusing on two important topics in geotechnical engineering: (1) the characterization of unsaturated soils, and (2) the investigation of rock properties. The research studies on unsaturated soils include the characterization techniques of the unsaturated soils. The studies on rock properties include thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of gypsum rock, soft rocks capacity, role of rock strength in blastability, indirect methods to estimate rock strength, and variations in isotope distributions in Permian rocks. The two broad themes in this collection, as summarized above, are representative of local challenges facing geotechnical engineers in the Middle East, but their contributions can also be extended to other regions of the world. The volume is based on the best contributions to the 2nd GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures, Egypt 2018 - The official international congress of the Soil-Structure Interaction Group in Egypt (SSIGE).

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JOHN S. MCCARTNEY, Ph.D., P.E : PROFESSIONAL PREPARATIONUniversity of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, Civil Engineering, B.S. (high distinction), 2002University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, Civil Engineering, M.S., 2002University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, Civil Engineering, Ph.D., 2007
b. APPOINTMENTS11/14 Present, Associate Professor, University of California San Diego (UCSD)07/13 08/14, Lyall Faculty Fellow, University of Colorado Boulder (CU)05/13 10/14, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder (CU)08/08 05/13, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder (CU)08/08 07/12, Barry Faculty Fellow, University of Colorado Boulder (CU)08/07 08/08, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (UA)
c. PUBLICATIONSi. Five Most Related PublicationsCoccia, C.J.R. and McCartney, J.S. (2016). Thermal volume change of poorly draining soils I: Critical assessment of volume change mechanisms. Computers and Geotechnics. 80(December), 26-40. 10.1016/j.compgeo.2016.06.009. Coccia, C.J.R. and McCartney, J.S. (2016). Thermal volume change of poorly draining soils II: Constitutive modelling. Computers and Geotechnics. 80(December), 16-25. 10.1016/j.compgeo.2016.06.010.Alsherif, N. and McCartney, J.S. (2016). Yielding of silt at high temperature and suction magnitudes. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering. 34(2), 501-514. Coccia, C.J.R. and McCartney, J.S. (2016). High-pressure thermal triaxial cell for evaluation of the impact of temperature on soil volume change mechanisms. ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal. 39(2), 217-234. 10.1520/GTJ20150114.Alsherif, N.A. and McCartney, J.S. (2015). Nonisothermal behavior of compacted silt at low degrees of saturation. Géotechnique. 65(9), 703-716.
ii. Five other Significant PublicationsMun, W. and McCartney, J.S. (2016). Constitutive model for the drained compression of unsaturated clay to high stresses. ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. 04017014-11-11. 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0001662. Mun, W. and McCartney, J.S. (2016). Constitutive model for the undrained compression of unsaturated clay. ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. 1-10. 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0001635. 04016117.Chen, D. and McCartney, J.S. (2016). Calibration parameters for load transfer analysis of energy piles in uniform soils. ASCE International Journal of Geomechanics. 04016159-1-17. 10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0000873.Goode, J.C., III and McCartney, J.S. (2015). Centrifuge modeling of boundary restraint effects in energy foundations. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. 141(8), 04015034-1-04015034-13.Khosravi, A. and McCartney, J.S. (2012). Impact of hydraulic hysteresis on the small-strain shear modulus of unsaturated soils. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. 138(11), 13261333. d. SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES•Selected Honors and Awards: oWalter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize (ASCE), 2016oPractical Journal Paper Award from TC106 on Unsaturated Soils (ISSMGE), 2014oArthur Casagrande Award (ASCE), 2013oASTM President's Leadership Award (ASTM), 2013oShamsher Prakash Found. Prize for Excellence in Teaching of Geotechnical Eng., 2012oYoung Professor Paper Award (Deep Foundations Institute), 2012oJ. James R. Croes Medal (ASCE), 2012oNSF Faculty Early Development (CAREER) Award, 2011oBest Paper of 2010 in Geosynthetics International, 2011oRichard S. Ladd D18 Standards Development Award (ASTM), 2011oInternational Geosynthetics Society (IGS) Young Member Award, 2008oNSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2002-2005•Service to Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE):oVice-Chair, Unsaturated Soils Committee, 2013-presentoMember, Geoenvironmental Committee, 2014-presentoMember, Outrea...

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Investigation of bentonite qualities on water retention characteristic curve.- Evaluation of subgrade resilient modulus from unsaturated cbr test.- Characterization of hydro-mechanical effects of suction and clay minerals on resilient modulus mr..- Addressing problems related to construction in the middle east of high rise buildings on soft rocks.- Laboratory characterization of reservoir rock and fluids of upper assam basin, india.- Modeling root water uptake, climate and unsaturated vegetated clays interactions in the context of shallow foundation soils.- Application of fragility curves to investigate the effect of rainfall pattern on the performance of an idealized soil slope.- Water retention behaviour of palm-oil mixed kaolin.- A modified correlation using statistical techniques in estimating the unixial compressive strength of sedimentary rocks based on p-wave velocity- a case study.- Predicting swelling potential and soil-water retention curves of some characterized expansive clays based on geotechnical properties.- Prediction of water discharge through the foundation of a rockfill dam in brazil.- Experimental investigation on the crack propagation and coalescence in rock-like specimens with pre-existing cracks under compressive loading.- Effects of rock joint inclinations and spacings on the static behavior of dam foundation.