This book is the second volume of the proceedings of the 4th GeoShanghai International Conference that was held on May 27 - 30, 2018. The book, entitled "Fundamentals of Soil Behaviours", presents the recent advances and technology in the understanding and modelling of fundamentals of soil's behaviours. The subject of this book covers a wide range of topics related to soil behaviours in geotechnical engineering, geoenvironmental engineering and transportation engineering. The state-of-the-art theories, methodologies and findings in the related topics are included. This book may benefit researchers and scientists from the academic fields of soil and rock mechanics, geotechnical engineering, geoenvironmental engineering, transportation engineering, geology, mining and energy, as well as practical engineers from industry.
Each of the papers included in this book received at least two positive peer reviews. The editors would like to express their sincerest appreciation to all of the anonymous reviewers all over the world, for their diligent work.
About the Author: Dr Annan Zhou obtained his PhD degree in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia. Now he works as a tenured Senior Lecturer at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. He was awarded the ARC DECRA Fellowship in 2012 and the AGS Hugh Trollope Medal in 2014.
Dr Junliang Tao graduated with his PhD degree from the Case Western Reserve University, United States. Now he is an Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Akron (United States). He was awarded the NSF CAREER award in 2017.
Dr Xiaoqiang Gu obtained his PhD degree in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR China). Now he is working as an Associate Professor in the School of Civil Engineering, Tongji University (China).
Dr Liangbo Hu obtained his Master and PhD degrees from Duke University, United States. Dr Hu now is employed as an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Toledo (United States).
