Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering: Implications and Sustainable Solutions for Infrastructures and the Environment

Dear Colleagues,

Geotechnical engineers continuously face new challenges in the design and management of structures and infrastructures prone to the destructive and long-lasting earthquake effects. In addition, the protection of the built and natural environment from earthquakes must now incorporate a sustainability perspective that affects different types of infrastructures that are critical for societal development, from increasingly larger transportation infrastructures to tailings and municipal solid waste storage facilities. Furthermore, modern design must also consider the natural environment protection and incorporate sustainable practices, through detailed geotechnical characterization and modelling and application of the concepts of performance-based design and circular economy.

Considering the pressing call for sustainable protection of the built and natural environment in seismically active regions, the Guest Editors welcome the valuable contribution of all of those working in relevant geotechnical topics, including the following:

• Experimental characterization and numerical modelling of the dynamic behaviour of geotechnical materials, including unconventional geomaterials such as tailings, municipal solid waste, etc.
• Monitoring and physical and numerical modelling of the behaviour of large infrastructures, including unconventional infrastructures such as tailing storage facilities and landfills, under the effects of dynamic loading.
• Assessment and mitigation of the environmental impacts caused by earthquake and earthquake-related phenomena, including liquefaction, on different types of infrastructures.
• Sustainable design solutions to mitigate earthquake effects applying the principles of performance-based design and circular economy.
• Sustainable ground improvement to mitigate earthquake effects.

Dr. Paulo A.L.F. Coelho
Dr. António M.G. Pedro
Dr. Diego Gino
Guest Editors

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