The Third Australia-New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics continues the sequence of conference previously held in Melbourne (1971) and Brisbane (1975). The conference is related to the three main fields of geomechanics; soil mechanics, rock mechanics and engineering geology.
The conference proceedings are presented in three volumes, the first two volumes comprising papers submitted for presentation and the third volume reports of discussion at conference sessions and keynote addresses delivered by invited speakers. The papers are arranged in the two volumes in order of presentation at the technical sessions of the conference.