Contemporary Tunnel Engineering
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2025 | Viewed by 93
Special Issue Editor
Interests: tunnel engineering; underground engineering; rock mechanics; thermal–hydraulic–mechanical coupling
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Dear Colleagues,
Service safety is one of the key concerns for tunnel engineering practitioners. Service risks can arise from the overall instability of tunnel lining structures, as well as lining cracking and leakage. Conducting service safety analysis based on certain influencing factors is of great practical significance for ensuring the safe service of tunnel engineering. This Special Issue aims to collect articles on recent progress in in-service safety of tunnel engineering, and the research perspectives include rock degradation, concrete degradation, train vibration, lining cracking and leakage, seepage dissolution, constitutive models, rock concrete interface interaction, etc.
Dr. Chaojun Jia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- tunnel engineering service safety
- tunnel instability
- lining cracking
- tunnel leakage
- rock degradation
- seepage-dissolution
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