Preface

Abstract

The international conference on geotechnical engineering-Iraq (ICGE-Iraq 2020) had finished its work successfully in Baghdad, Iraq to discuss the challenges, opportunities, and problems of geotechnical engineering in Civil engineering problems. The ICGE-Iraq was organized by the Iraqi Scientific Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (ISSSMFE) with the cooperation of Civil Engineering Department/University of Baghdad and the ICGE-Iraq hold at the University of Baghdad. ICGE-Iraq 2020 received about 138 research manuscript in 11 themes: soil improvement; shallow and deep foundation; soil mechanics and dynamics; unsaturated soils; soil-structure interaction; engineering geology; geoenvironmental engineering; applications of sustainability in geotechnical engineering; application of remote sensing in geotechnical engineering; transportation geotechnique; and construction management.ICGE-Iraq 2020 is a forum to bring together scientists, researchers, business people, and industry professionals to discuss innovative ideas and diverse topics on the next generation of sustainable geotechnical and environmental engineering. The papers submitted to the conference received from Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Germany, USA, India, Turkey, Oman, Jordan, and Algeria. More than 800 participants attended the conference in the opening ceremony and plenary session.Hundreds of attendees, paper presenters, keynote speakers, exhibitors, and tutorial participants, students have benefited in many ways from this conference. More than 118 scientific papers were presented by authors in oral presentations and posters from several countries. Five invited keynote speakers from different countries addressed to the audience and shared knowledge and rich experience of applications of the Iraqi scientific society of soil mechanics and foundation engineering in their universities and companies. Prof. Mahdi Karkush President of ISSSMFE Conference Chair