Preface

Ten years after the successful conference held in Bari, the VI Italian Conference of Researchers in Geotechnical Engineering (CNRIG) took place at the Auditorium of Department of Arts of the Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna on 22-23 September 2016. The event was organized by the Geotechnical Engineering Group of the University of Bologna in collaboration with the National Group of Geotechnical Engineering (GNIG) and under the auspices of the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM) of the University of Bologna. The overall theme of the Conference was "Geotechnical Engineering in Multidisciplinary Research: from Microscale to Regional Scale", a purposely broad ‘hot’ topic that provided a wide scope for participation from the many disciplines interacting on various issues with Geotechnical Engineering at different scales of analysis. As tradition of such conferences which foster a lively debate on recent research advancements, the event provided great opportunities for participants to share up-to-date knowledge, new ideas and experiences in Geotechnical Engineering, as well as to discuss current research prospects and potential future collaborations.