| Foreword | 
                  
                   
                    | Kohji Tokimatsu and H. Di Benedetto | 
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                    | TECHNICAL PAPERS | 
                  
                   
                    | Effect of End Platens on Microstructure 
                      Evolution in Dilatant Specimens | 
                  
                   
                    | J. D. Frost and C.-T. Yang | 
                    ... 1 | 
                  
                   
                    | Behavior of Uncemented Sands 
                      and Grouted Sands before Peak Strength | 
                  
                   
                    | C. Dano and P.-Y. Hicher | 
                    ... 13 | 
                  
                   
                    | Generalised Effective Stress 
                      Analysis of Strength and Small Strains Behaviour of a Silty 
                      Sand, from Dry to Saturated State | 
                   
                    | J. M. Fleureau, S. Hadiwardoyo and A. Gomes 
                      Correia | 
                    ... 21 | 
                  
                
                 
                  |   Deformation and Degradation 
                    Mechanics of Recycled Ballast Stabilised with Geosynthetics | 
                
                 
                  | B. Indraratna and W. Salim | 
                  ... 35 | 
                
                 
                  |   Deformation-Strength Evaluation 
                    of Crushable Volcanic Soils by Laboratory and In-Situ Testing | 
                
                 
                  | Seiichi Miura, Kazuyoshi Yagi and Tsuyoshi Asonuma | 
                  ... 47 | 
                
                 
                  |   Anisotropic Multiple Yielding 
                    of Dense Toyoura Sand in p'-Constant Shear Plane | 
                
                 
                  | S.K. Chaudhary and Jiro Kuwano | 
                  ... 59 | 
                
                 
                  |   Deformation Characteristics 
                    of Soils with Variations of Capillary Pressure and Water Content | 
                
                 
                  |  D.-S. Kim, W.-S. Seo and M.-J. Kim | 
                  ... 71 | 
                
                 
                  |   Interface Load Transfer Degradation 
                    during Cyclic Loading: A Microscale Investigation | 
                
                 
                  |  J. T. DeJong, M. F. Randolph and D. J. White | 
                  ... 81 | 
                
                 
                  | Grain Rotation versus Continuum 
                    Rotation during Shear Deformation of Granular Assembly | 
                
                 
                  |  Takashi Matsushima, Hidetaka Saomoto, YosukeTsubokawa 
                    and Yasuo Yamada | 
                  ... 95 | 
                
                 
                  |   Creep, Ageing and Microstructural 
                    Change in Dense Granular Materials | 
                
                 
                  | E.T.Bowman and Kenichi Soga | 
                  ... 107 | 
                
                 
                  |   Effects of Fe-Oxides Cementation 
                    on the Deformation Characteristics of a Highly Weathered Old 
                    Alluvium in San Juan, Puerto Rico | 
                
                 
                  | G.Zhang, J.T.Germaine and A.J.Whittle | 
                  ... 119 | 
                
                 
                  |   Time-Dependent Behaviour of 
                    Oil Reservoir Chalk: A Multiphase Approach | 
                
                 
                  | V. De Gennaro, P. Delage, Y.-J. Cui, Ch. Schroeder 
                    and F. Collin | 
                  ... 131 | 
                
                 
                  |   Evaluation of Undrained Cyclic 
                    Strength of Gravelly Soil by Shear Modulus  | 
                
                 
                  | Yukihisa Tanaka | 
                  ... 149 | 
                
                 
                  |   Analysis and Prediction of 
                    Shear Banding under 3D Conditions in Granular Materials | 
                
                 
                  | P. V. Lade | 
                  ... 161 | 
                
                 
                  |   One-Dimensional Consolidation 
                    Modeling Based on the Isotach Law for Normally Consolidated 
                    Clays | 
                
                 
                  | Goro Imai, Yosuke Tanaka and Hiroyuki Saegusa | 
                  ... 173 | 
                
                 
                  |   Step-Changed Strain Rate Effect 
                    on the Stress-Strain Relations of Clay and a Constitutive 
                    Modeling | 
                
                 
                  | Fusao Oka, Takeshi Kodaka, Sayuri Kimoto, Shigenao 
                    Ishigaki and Chiyuki Tsuji | 
                  ... 189 | 
                
                 
                  |   Obtaining Isotache Parameters 
                    from a C.R.S.Ko-Oedometer, and the Limits of Their 
                    Usefulness | 
                
                 
                  | E.J.den Haan and Shoji Kamao | 
                  ... 203 | 
                
                 
                  |   A Constitutive Model for Crushed 
                    Granular Aggregates Which Includes Suction Effects | 
                
                 
                  | C. Chavez and E. E. Alonso | 
                  ... 215 | 
                
                 
                  |   Predicted and Observed Performance 
                    of an Oil Tank Founded on Soil-Cement Columns in Clayey Soils | 
                
                 
                  | S. Rampello and L. Callisto | 
                  ... 229 | 
                
                 
                  |  
                    ANNOUNCEMENT | 
                  ... 243 | 
                
                 
                  |  
                    JGS NEWS | 
                  ... I-III |