Geotechnical Engineering State of the Art and Practice: Keynote Lectures from GeoCongress 2012

1. Designing Water Balance Covers for Sustainable Waste Containment: Transitioning State of the Art to State of the Practice
2. Computational Plasticity for Geotechnical Applications
3. Column-Supported Embankments: Settlement and Load Transfer
4. Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering: Stability Analysis of Highly Variable Soils
5. Reliability-Based Design of Foundations—A Modern View
6. Assessment of Slope Stability
7. Geotechnical Site Characterization in the Year 2012 and Beyond
8. Flexible Pavement Analysis and Design—A Half-Century of Achievement
9. Shear Wave Velocity Profiling with Surface Wave Methods
10. Offshore Geotechnics—The Challenges of Deepwater Soft Sediments
11. Ground Improvement in the 21st Century: A Comprehensive Web-Based Information System
12. U.S. Levee and Flood Protection Engineering in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
13. Seismically Induced Lateral Earth Pressures on Retaining Structures and Basement Walls
14. Site Response in NEHRP Provisions and NGA Models
15. Tunneling in Difficult Conditions—The Squeezing Case
16. Ingenuity in Geotechnical Design Using Geosynthetics
17. State of the Practice of Characterization and Remediation of Contaminated Sites
18. State of the Practice of MSE Wall Design for Highway Structures
19. The Practice of Forensic Engineering
20. Foundation Design for Tall Buildings
21. Geotechnical Engineering Education: The State of the Practice in 2011
22. Geo-Seismic Design in Eastern US: State of Practice

Geotechnical Engineering State of the Art and Practice: Keynote Lectures from GeoCongress 2012 contains 30 peer-reviewed papers that survey the entire breadth of research and practice in geotechnical engineering. Each paper is contributed by distinguished geotechnical engineers who were invited to create a comprehensive overview of the profession by focusing on a specific technical subject. About half the papers present the state of the art by summarizing the latest research and challenges for geotechnical researchers. The other half demonstrate the state of the practice by reporting on issues as they are tackled by geotechnical engineers in the field. Taken together, these papers showcase the best of the profession and form a basis for integrating geotechnical research with its practice. Topics include: foundations and earth stability; geotechnical modeling; site characterization, testing, and monitoring; geoenvironmental engineering; embankments and slope stability; soil properties; pavements; tunneling and underground spaces; and earthquake engineering. This collection is an important touchstone for geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineers, whatever their focus on research and practice.