Evaluation and Monitoring of Geotechnical Stability
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 1800
Special Issue Editors
Interests: underground engineering; landslides; reliability; artificial intelligence; machine learning; rheological mechanism
Interests: landslides; pile soil interaction; reliability
Interests: engineering geological hazards analysis, evaluation, monitoring technology; rock and soil stability analysis; geological engineering numerical simulation and physical simulation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In geotechnical engineering, stability analysis is considered one of the most important parts in many fields, for example, slopes, underground engineering, foundations and deep excavations. If it is not properly considered, geotechnical structures may collapse, leading to adverse effects economically and on lives. Considering the severe effects, making an accurate stability prediction is greatly important. Currently, there are many methods proposed for assessing geotechnical stability analysis, including reliability analysis, limit equilibrium, limit analysis, slip-line methods, the displacement-based finite element method, etc. However, given the limitation of the assumed simple material model, these methods cannot always make an accurate evaluation. Monitoring can be an alternative way to provide real-time information about geotechnical stability and hence guarantee the safety of geotechnical structures.
This Applied Sciences Special Issue welcomes all new and advanced work on both evaluation and monitoring of geotechnical stability. All papers using new, practical, innovative, and intelligent approaches in either evaluation or monitoring of geotechnical stability are welcome. The fields include but are not limited to slopes, underground engineering, foundations, excavations, and dams. The focus of the Special Issue is on the development of methods for the evaluation and monitoring of geotechnical stability.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Theoretical and numerical methods for geotechnical stability analysis
- Reliability analysis and new evaluation methods of geotechnical stability
- New monitoring technologies for the responses of geotechnical engineering
- Application of big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in geotechnical engineering
- New technologies to increase geotechnical stability
- Model test of geological stability
- Case studies of geological stability
- New materials used in geotechnical engineering
Dr. Jiancong Xu
Dr. Yang Yu
Prof. Dr. Yuequan Shang
Guest Editors
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