Advances in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering: Challenges and Solutions
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 October 2025 | Viewed by 62
Special Issue Editors
2. School of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Interests: soil dynamics; geotechnical earthquake engineering
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Interests: Geotechnical earthquake engineering, soil dynamics, soil liquefaction, ground motions, computational geomechanics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With large-scale urban development in densely populated areas and the expansion of infrastructure to earthquake-prone regions, new challenges in earthquake geotechnical engineering have appeared in recent years. Innovative solutions are urgently needed to deal with these problems in resillent seismic safety.
Therefore, this Special Issue is intended for the presentation of new ideas, new knowledge, new findings from field investigations, experimental results and numerical simulations, and engineering practices in the field of earthquake geotechnical engineering—from testing, experimentation, design, servicing, and theory to practical use.
This Special Issue seeks to collect original articles and reviews on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Recent advances in the seismic design and analysis of tunnels and underground infrastructure.
- Ground, foundation, and structural measures against liquefaction.
- Geotechnical seismic isolation.
- Resillient applications in earthquake geotechnical engineering.
- The consideration of seismic input, site effect, and dynamic soil–structure interation in seismic design.
- The challenges and solutions of recent geotechnical earthquake disasters including landslides and flow slides, liquefaction, and subsidence.
- Geotechnical earthquake engineering with geosynthetics.
Dr. Lanmin Wang
Prof. Dr. Gang Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- seismic design, analysis methods, tunnels, underground infrastructure
- liquefaction, ground, foundation, structure, measuments
- seismic isolation, geotechnical measurements, ground, foundation
- resillient design, earthquake geotechnical engineering
- seismic input, site effect, dynamic soil–structure interation
- seismic landslides, flow slide, liquefaction, subsidence
- geosynthetics, seismic resistance, deformation, stability
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