The European Research Area has now become a reality. The prime objective of the EJECE is to fully document advances in International scientific and technical research in the fields of sustainable construction and soil engineering. In particular regard to the latter, the environmental preservation of natural media (soils and rocks) and the mitigation of soil-related risks are now not only major societal challenges, but they are also the source of scientific and technical developments that could be extremely beneficial.Areas covered by the EJECE include rheology of geomaterials (cement, soils, rocks), natural media (muds, snow, ice, etc.) and granular materials, soil-fluid-structure interactions and their coupling with temperature, chemistry (degradation, etc.) and time (durability, ageing, etc.), computation and design of structures and engineering works. The new experimental facilities and measurement tools (metrology and sensors in laboratories and in the field, etc.) and the characterizing of displacement fields and of micro-meso-structures of materials (scanner, tomodensitometer, etc.) give rise to major innovations which concern thus primarily the EJECE. Finally the numerical methods (finite differences, finite elements, discrete elements, particulate methods, etc), which constitute obviously the bases of the modelling and of the computation of structures and engineering works, fall completely in the interest area of the Journal.

歐洲的研究領(lǐng)域現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)成為現(xiàn)實(shí)。EJECE的主要目標(biāo)是全面記錄可持續(xù)建設(shè)和土壤工程領(lǐng)域國際科學(xué)和技術(shù)研究的進(jìn)展。特別是在后者方面，自然介質(zhì)（土壤和巖石）的環(huán)境保護(hù)和與土壤有關(guān)的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)的緩解現(xiàn)在不僅是重大的社會(huì)挑戰(zhàn)，而且也是可能極其有益的科學(xué)和技術(shù)發(fā)展的來源。EJECE覆蓋的區(qū)域包括土工材料（水泥、土壤、巖石）、天然介質(zhì)（泥、雪、冰等）和顆粒材料的流變學(xué)、土壤-流體-結(jié)構(gòu)相互作用及其與溫度、化學(xué)（降解等）和時(shí)間（耐久性、老化等）的耦合、結(jié)構(gòu)和工程的計(jì)算和設(shè)計(jì)。新的實(shí)驗(yàn)設(shè)施和測量工具（實(shí)驗(yàn)室和現(xiàn)場的計(jì)量和傳感器等）以及位移場和材料微觀細(xì)觀結(jié)構(gòu)（掃描儀、層析密度計(jì)等）的特征化，引發(fā)了主要關(guān)注EJECE的重大創(chuàng)新。最后，數(shù)值方法（有限差分法、有限元法、離散元法、微粒法等）顯然構(gòu)成了建模和結(jié)構(gòu)和工程計(jì)算的基礎(chǔ)，完全屬于期刊的關(guān)注領(lǐng)域。