Advanced Research on Tunnel Slope Stability and Land Subsidence

Dear Colleagues,

Due to the extensive influence of global environmental changes and extensive human engineering activities, people around the world have suffered from an increasing number of geotechnical and geological disasters over the past decades.

Not only are geotechnical disasters related to human activities, such as slope instability, tunnel damage, and surface subsidence, a high risk to society and the environment, but natural geological disasters such as landslides, debris flows, and rock falls are as well. These disasters are triggered by various factors, such as earthquakes, rainfall, fault dislocation, and so on, which are closely related to the formation and occurrence of disasters. Geotechnical geological disasters are common within the process of engineering construction, operation, and maintenance. They can be regional and very long term, or local and short term. The formation and evolution mechanism of geotechnical engineering disasters is very complicated and affected by many aspects. Field investigations, laboratory experiments, theoretical models, and numerical methods are helpful to better understand the formation mechanism and dynamics of disasters, and provide more reasonable evaluation and prediction results. Therefore, it is very useful to understand the disaster mechanism of slope stability, tunnel deformation, and ground settlement for reducing and mitigating the risk of geotechnical and geological disasters using a variety of research methods.

This Special Issue will be devoted to exploring new perspectives on the research methods and disaster-causing mechanisms of slope tunnel stability and land subsidence.

The topics discussed in this Special Issue will focus not only on materials related to field investigation and monitoring, laboratory testing, theoretical derivation, and numerical and physical modeling at various scales, but also on advances in research on the cause mechanisms of disasters.

Prof. Dr. Fei Song
Prof. Dr. Danqing Song
Prof. Dr. Wen Nie
Dr. Wei Sun
Guest Editors

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