The inaugural volume of the Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering includes the following State of the Art and invited papers authored by leaders in the profession.

Centrifuge Modelling of Contaminant Transport Processes

by Patricia J. Culligan MIT, Boston, MA, USA
C. Savvidou Cambridge University, England, and
Andrew Barry University of Western Australia

Geofoam Geosynthetic: Past, Present, and Future

by John S. Horvath
Manhattan College, Bronx, NY, USA

High-Temperature Plasma Vitrification of Geomaterials

by Paul W. Mayne, and James Beaver Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

Artificial Intelligence Applications in Geotechnical Engineering

by David Geoffrey Toll
University of Durham, Durham, UK

A Family of Nonlinear Failure Envelopes

by Milan Maksimovic
University of Belgrad, Yugoslavia

Geotechnical Software Review

by Tim Spink
Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Software Directory, UK

Discrete Element Analysis and Granular Vortex Formation

by John R. Williams, Rory O'Connor, and Nabha Rege
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA

Constitutive Relations for Soil Materials

by Jean H. Prevost and Radu Popescu
Princeton University, NJ, USA

Field validation of a computer model for forecasting mean weekly in situ moisture condition value

by I. G. N. Smith, J. Oliphant, and S. G. Wallis
Napier University, Edinburgh, and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

Electro-Chemical Technologies for In-situ Restoration of
Contaminated Subsurface Soils

by Sibel Pamukcu
Lehigh University, PA, USA

Subsurface Hydrologic Regime and Estimation of Diffuse Soil Water Flux in a Semi Arid Region

by Bhaskar Joshi and Charles Maule
Department of Agricultural & Bioresource Engineering
E. De Jong Department of Soil Science
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon S7N5A9, Canada

Geotechnical Problems in the Holy Land - Then and Now

by Sam Frydman
Geotechnology and Mineral Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel