The aim of the organizers is to provide an effective environment to present, review and discuss advances in the theory and application of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics.

In addition to classical topics, the scope of the conference has been enlarged to cover new areas (swelling rocks, rockfill mechanics, multiphase media, and freezing soils) where present concepts on unsaturated soils have proved to be particularly useful.

There is also a special interest in attracting well documented case histories.