Recent Research in Soil and Rock Mechanics
A Special Issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417) belonging to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2027 | Viewed by 14
Editors
Interests: ground improvement; sustainable materials and solutions for engineering problems (eco-binders, nanotechnology); environmental problems (remediation of contaminated soils)
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Interests: geotechnical laboratory and in situ testing; shear strength and stiffness of soils; constitutive modelling; soil stabilization; foundation engineering
Interests: predicted behavior and numerical modelling of underground structures and deep excavations; fitness of soil constitutive models based on laboratory tests using optimization tools; geomechanical characterization of rock masses; numerical modelling of variability in soils and rocks; surrogate models applied to geotechnical applications
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Interests: geotechnical monitoring; algorithms for identification and prediction of landslide events; landslide early warning systems; numerical modeling and stability analyses
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The fields of soil mechanics and rock mechanics are undergoing a significant transformation driven by advances in experimental techniques, numerical modelling, artificial intelligence, and the increasing demand for sustainable and resilient infrastructure. Modern geotechnical engineering projects, including underground construction, transportation networks, energy infrastructure, mining operations, and climate adaptation works, require a deeper understanding of the coupled behaviour of soils and rocks under complex mechanical, hydraulic, thermal, and environmental conditions.
This Special Issue aims to showcase recent advances and emerging trends in both soil and rock mechanics, with particular emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches that bridge the traditional boundaries between these fields. Contributions are invited on topics such as advanced laboratory and in situ characterization methods, constitutive modelling, multi-physics coupling, machine learning applications, digital twins, reliability and risk assessment, numerical and hybrid modelling techniques, sustainability in geotechnical engineering, energy geostructures, geoenvironmental solutions, instability mechanisms, and the monitoring and performance assessment of natural and engineered geomaterials.
Review papers on current challenges and future directions in geomechanics are also welcome, as are case studies of innovative applications in practice. By bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry, this collection aims to provide a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art developments that will shape the next generation of geotechnical engineering solutions.
Dr. António Alberto Santos Correia
Dr. Matylda Tankiewicz
Dr. António M.G. Pedro
Dr. Alessandro Valletta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soil mechanics
- rock mechanics
- advanced geomechanics
- numerical modelling
- machine learning in geotechnics
- digital twins
- multi-physics processes
- energy geostructures
- geological and geotechnical hazards
- sustainable geotechnical engineering
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