Disaster Prevention and Control of Underground and Tunnel Engineering
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2025 | Viewed by 92
Special Issue Editors
Interests: basic theory and application of rock mechanics; numerical simulation method and application of geotechnical engineering; evaluation and prevention of geological hazards
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: high temperature rock mechanics; rock mechanics in underground space development; numerical simulation methods for geotechnical engineering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the utilization of underground space has advanced towards deeper parts of the earth, resulting in an increasing number of geological hazards that seriously threaten the safety of engineering. The control of disasters in underground space and tunnel engineering has attracted the attention of many engineers and researchers.
We are pleased to invite you to submit an article to this Special Issue, whose scope includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
(1) Urban underground engineering, such as the problems associated with the rock and soil mechanics encountered by new urban underground engineering projects in special geological formations and the deformation and damage problems encountered by existing urban tunnel galleries and underground engineering when the groundwater level rises;
(2) Conventional energy underground engineering, such as the ground subsidence and mining pressure disasters faced by coal underground mining and the problems associated with rock mechanics and rock fracturing in oil and gas (shale gas) mining;
(3) Unconventional energy underground engineering, such as multi-field coupled rock mechanics problems in dry hot rock mining;
(4) Geological energy storage engineering, such as the rock mechanics faced during the exploration, construction, and operation of compressed air storage facilities, natural gas underground storage facilities, and petroleum underground storage facilities;
(5) Extreme environmental underground engineering, such as tunnel engineering in extremely cold regions and tunnel engineering in high-temperature regions.
(6) The control of adverse geological conditions in deep areas, such as the treatment of goaf and karst collapse.
We look forward to receiving your submissions to this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Nengxiong Xu
Guest Editor
Dr. Yan Qin
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- underground space development
- underground energy storage facility
- poor geological conditions underground
- conventional energy extraction
- unconventional energy extraction
- geotechnical problems
- engineering geological issues
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