Geotechnical Engineering

Editor

Once again, the members of the Society are invited to make contributions of their professional and research works to the Geotechncal Engineering Journal. In addition to high quality research ones, papers on major geotechnical topics with wide interest to the South East Asian Region are welcome.

Notes for the guidance of authors

Three copies of the original paper (and all figures and tables) together with a 31/2 floppy disc (using Microsoft Word) should be submitted to The Editor, Geotechnical Engineering Journal, School of Civil Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand. Papers under review, accepted for publication, or published elsewhere are not accepted. (Some Journals further require that authors should state which technical or task committee is appropriate to review the paper). The review and publication procedures will be faster if the basic requirements, listed here, are followed.

1. The manuscript including abstract and references must be typed double-spaced in Times New Roman 10 on one side of A4 paper with a margin of 25 mm on each side.
2. The length of titles must not exceed 70 characters and spaces inclusive.
3. The maximum length of papers is 12 pages in single-spaced including figures and tables. A Journal page is approximately 1,260 words. Authors can approximate manuscript length by counting the number of words on a typical manuscript page and multiplying that by the number of total pages (except for tables and figures). Authors should add word-equivalents for figures and tables by estimating the portion of the journal page each will occupy when reduced, usually 75% to 50%, to fit on a 160 mm x 240 mm journal page. A figure reduced to one-quarter of a page would be 315 word-equivalents. When reduced, the figure must be legible and its type no smaller than 6 point font.
4. The paper must end with a set of conclusions.
5. A practical applications section should be included, if appropriate.
6. If experimental data and/or relations fitted to measurements are presented, the uncertainty of the results must be stated. The uncertainty must include both systematic (bias) errors and imprecisions.
7. Authors need not be Society members. Each author’s full name and Society membership grade (if applicable) should appear immediately beneath the title. Each author’s present title and affiliation, and complete mailing address must appear as a footnote at the bottom of the first page of the paper.
8. All mathematics must be typewritten, and special symbols must be identified. Letter symbols should be defined when they first appear.
9. Figures: Line art should be submitted in black ink or laser printed; halftones and color should be original, glossy art. Figures should be submitted at final width: 90 mm for one column and 185 mm for two columns. The font of the legends should be in Times New Roman and should use capital letters for the first letter of the first word only and use lower case for the rest of the words. Background screening and grids should be eliminated.
10. Each table must be typed on one side of a single sheet of paper.
11. Each author must use SI units.
12. References should appear in the text as the name(s) of the author(s) followed by the year of publication in parentheses. A list of references should be given at the end of the text in alphabetical order of the name(s) of the author(s) in capitals and single spacing must be maintained between references. Some examples of the format to be used in reference list are given below:

    PREMCHITT, J. and SHAW, R. (1991). Marine geotechnical engineering for development projects in Hong Kong. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Technology for Hong Kong’s Infrastructure Development, Hong Kong pp. 721-728.
    
    PUN, W.K. (1990). Seismicity of Hong Kong. M.Sc. Thesis of the University of London (unpublished).
    
    PUN, W.K. and AMBRASEYS, N.N. (1992). Earthquake data review and seismic hazard analysis for the Hong Kong region. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 433-443.
    
    HOEK, E. and BROWN, E.T. (1982). Underground Excavations in Rock (2nd Edition). London: The Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 527p.

The Geotechnical Engineering Journal of our Society is published twice a year since 1970 and is distributed to members as well as to a large number of libraries of universities, research organizations and private sector. The journal includes publications that are of interest to academicians, researchers and practitioners.