Tunnel and Underground Engineering: Recent Advances and Challenges
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2024 | Viewed by 1189
Special Issue Editors
2. Key Laboratory of Geotechnical and Underground Space Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China
Interests: tunnel engineering; rock mechanics; intelligent construction; geotechnical engineering
Interests: metro tunnel; loess; tunnel construction
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Tunnel and underground engineering are the main types of underground space development and utilization, both existing in surrounding rock media. The mechanical problems of surrounding rock media are caused during construction. The mechanical properties of the surrounding rock also affect the construction safety of underground engineering and tunnel engineering. At present, there are still many key technical problems in the construction of tunnel and underground engineering, such as the mechanical evolution mechanism of surrounding rock during the construction of underground engineering and tunnel engineering; the construction safety of underground works and tunnel works in rich water geological environment; and the intelligent construction of underground engineering and tunnel engineering.
This Special Issue aims to collect original research or review articles on the latest theories and techniques related to tunnel and underground engineering. All theoretical, numerical, experimental, and field studies are welcome.
This Special Issue aims to publish high-quality, original research papers in the following overlapping fields (while also not limited to these fields):
- The mechanical mechanism of tunnel and underground engineering;
- The informationized monitoring of tunnel and underground engineering;
- The intelligent development and utilization of urban underground space;
- The intelligent construction of tunneling engineering;
- The engineering problems of urban subways;
- Engineering structure design and optimization;
- Pipe jacking construction;
- Rock and soil mechanics with multi-field coupling;
- A constitutive model of rock and soil;
- Underground carbon dioxide storage technology;
- Underground energy storage.
Dr. Zhanping Song
Dr. Yuwei Zhang
Dr. Naifei Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tunnel engineering
- underground engineering
- intelligent construction
- rock mechanics
- numerical simulation
- model tests
