Call for Papers

Background:

Slope stability is a critical aspect of geotechnical and environmental engineering, directly influencing the safety, sustainability, and economic viability of infrastructure, mining, and civil construction projects. The behaviour of geomaterials, including soil, rock, and soil-rock mixtures, under varying hydrological and mechanical conditions plays a decisive role in the stability of natural and engineered slopes. Traditional testing and modelling approaches provide valuable insights, but their predictive capacity is being increasingly challenged by the impacts of climate change, such as extreme rainfall events, rising groundwater levels, and temperature variations. These factors can accelerate slope failures and amplify associated environmental and socio-economic risks. Developing robust, climate-resilient design strategies requires integrating advanced laboratory testing, field monitoring, and numerical modelling to better capture the complex interactions between geomaterials and external stresses.

Goal/Rationale:

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, driven by climate change, poses significant challenges to slope stability worldwide. Conventional geotechnical practices, while effective under normal conditions, often fail to fully capture the dynamic interactions between rainfall infiltration, pore-water pressure variations, and the hydro-mechanical behaviour of geomaterials. This gap increases the risk of slope failures, threatening infrastructure, mining operations, and communities. There is therefore a pressing need to enhance predictive models and design practices to ensure greater resilience.

Recent advances in laboratory testing techniques, coupled with high-resolution field monitoring and numerical modelling, now allow for more realistic representation of slope behaviour under climate-induced stressors. Innovative methods such as coupled hydro-mechanical simulations, remote sensing technologies, and machine learning approaches further improve predictive accuracy and decision-making. This symposium aims to address these challenges by bringing together researchers and practitioners to explore testing methods, modelling tools, and climate-resilient design strategies, ultimately advancing safer and more sustainable geotechnical practices.

Scope and Information for Participants:

This symposium will focus on advancing knowledge and practical approaches to slope stability through the study of geomaterials, testing methods, and climate-resilient design strategies. Participants will gain insights into how laboratory investigations, field monitoring, and numerical modelling can be integrated to better understand slope behaviour under varying hydro-mechanical and climatic conditions. Specific themes include advanced laboratory testing of soils, rocks, and soil-rock mixtures; coupled hydro-mechanical modelling of slope behaviour; the role of rainfall, groundwater, and extreme weather events in triggering failures; application of numerical and data-driven approaches for slope analysis; and strategies for climate-resilient slope design and monitoring. The symposium will also highlight case studies linking research to practice, offering a platform for knowledge exchange between academia, industry, and government. Participants are encouraged to contribute experiences, methodologies, and innovations that can inform safer and more sustainable slope engineering practices.

Submission:

Prospective authors are kindly invited to submit full papers that include title, abstract, introduction, tables, figures, conclusion and references. It is unnecessary to submit an abstract in advance. Please submit your papers in English.

Each paper should be no less than 4 pages. One regular registration can cover a paper of 6 pages, and additional pages will be charged. Please format your paper well according to the conference template before submission. Paper Template Download

Please prepare your paper in both .doc/.docx and .pdf format and submit your full paper by email with both formats attached directly to sympo_mounthelen@confmcee.org

Important Dates:

Publication:

Accepted papers of the symposium will be published in Applied and Computational Engineering (ACE) (Print ISSN 2755-2721), and will be submitted to Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), Crossref, CNKI, Portico, Engineering Village (Inspec), Google Scholar, and other databases for indexing. The situation may be affected by factors among databases like processing time, workflow, policy, etc.

Publication info

Title: Applied and Computational Engineering (ACE)
Press: EWA Publishing, United Kingdom
ISSN: 2755-2721, 2755-273X (electronic)

This symposium is organized by CONF-MCEE 2026 and it will independently proceed the submission and publication process.

* The papers will be exported to production and publication on a regular basis. Early-registered papers are expected to be published online earlier.