Deadline Date: 01 June 2027
Geotechnical and underground engineering encompasses a wide spectrum of critical infrastructure challenges, including tunneling, deep excavations, foundation systems, slope stability, underground storage, and subsurface resource extraction. The increasing complexity of modern geotechnical projects, combined with the inherent variability and uncertainty of geological materials, demands robust and sophisticated numerical simulation tools capable of capturing complex mechanical, hydraulic, thermal, and chemical behaviors of geomaterials.
This special issue aims to bring together cutting-edge research on numerical methods and their engineering applications in geotechnical and underground engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the development and validation of advanced constitutive models for geomaterials, finite element and finite difference methods, discrete element methods, meshfree and particle-based approaches, as well as hybrid and multi-scale computational frameworks. Particular emphasis is placed on the simulation of coupled multi-physics processes, large deformation problems, geotechnical hazard assessment, and the integration of field monitoring data with numerical models.
Contributions bridging the gap between theoretical formulations and practical engineering applications are strongly encouraged. This special issue welcomes both original research articles and comprehensive review papers from academics, researchers, and practicing engineers worldwide, with the shared goal of advancing the state-of-the-art in computational geotechnics and underground engineering.
Editorial board
