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View ArticleFollowing the kind invitation, it is for me a great honour and pleasure, on behalf of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, to welcome this new number of Soils & Rocks, in English version, edited by ABMS, ABGE and SPG. I would like to stress the very important role played by these Societies for the development...
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