Innovative Solutions for Frozen Soil Engineering Challenges
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2026 | Viewed by 86
Special Issue Editors
Interests: earthquake-induced landslides; earthquake engineering; landslide; geotechnical engineering; statistical analysis; random finite element method
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Interests: water freezing; unfrozen water content; multi-physics coupling model; water transfer; phase change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Frozen soil engineering challenges are inherently multi-physics and multi-scale in nature, involving strong coupling among thermal, hydraulic, mechanical, and chemical processes, as well as water–ice phase transitions. Scientific and engineering challenges span from the microscale (e.g., frozen soil microstructure, ice lens nucleation and growth, cryo-suction, and particle–ice interactions) to the field scale (foundations, tunnels, embankments, slopes, pipelines, and other cold-regions infrastructure). Addressing these challenges demands coordinated advances in theory, experimentation, computation, and field observation across earth science, environmental science, remote sensing, and engineering practices.
This Special Issue aims to promote interdisciplinary integration by bringing together original contributions on the following topics:
- Mechanical properties of cold-regions geomaterials and frozen-soil physics;
- Multi-physics coupling theories and numerical methods;
- Interaction between cold-regions infrastructures and the environment;
- Permafrost degradation and cold-regions geohazards;
- Testing techniques and equipment for cold-regions geotechnics;
- New theories and technologies for artificial ground freezing;
- Remote sensing for cold-regions geotechnical engineering.
Prof. Dr. Yong Liu
Prof. Dr. Xusheng Wan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- frozen soil behavior
- permafrost engineering
- multi-scale modelling
- THMC coupling
- numerical modelling
- frost heave and thaw settlement
- cold-regions geohazards
- artificial ground freezing
- cold-regions infrastructure
- multi-source monitoring
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