De'an Sun Author & Editor

Hajime Matsuoka is Professor of Civil Engineering at the Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan and the author of a number of books. His research interests include Earth Reinforcement and Vibration Reduction by Soilbags, in-situ Direct Shear Test and Constitutive Models for Soils.

De'an Sun is Professor of Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering, Shanghai University. His current research interests include Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and Soil Constitutive Modelling.

Professors Matsuoka and Sun were awarded the Technical Development Prize from The Japanese Civil Engineering Society in 2004.