New Advances in Soil-Structure Systems

Dear Colleagues,

In many geotechnical applications, the built structures and the surrounding soil inevitably work as a complete system during construction and under service conditions. Some examples are the soil-foundation system, soil-geosynthetic system, retaining wall-backfill system, pavement-subgrade system and underground structure-soil system. The safety and performance of these geotechnical systems are dependent on not only the behaviours of the soils and the structures but also the complex soil-structure interactions. The investigation of the soil-structure system (including the topic of soil-structure interaction) has attracted tremendous attention from both academics and engineers over the last decades. In recent years, we have seen growing applications of new technologies in the investigation of soil-structure systems, such as image analysis, computed tomographic methods, centrifuge tests, advanced numerical modelling, sophisticated physical modelling, and machine learning methods. The investigation domain has also been extended to a much broader scope, including geothermal systems, offshore turbines and pipelines, extraterrestrial investigation and construction.

As the Guest Editors for the Special Issue “New Advances in Soil-Structure Systems”, we cordially invite you to submit your up-to-date articles related to this topic including, but not limited to, the following aspects:

• State-of-the-art review of the performance of the soil-structure system for specific cases;
• Laboratory test on the soil-structure interactions, including interface behaviours;
• Physical modelling and field test on the performance of soil-structure systems;
• Numerical modelling of the performance of soil-structure systems;
• Theoretical analysis of the performance of soil-structure systems;
• Machine learning applications on the performance of soil-structure systems.

Prof. Dr. Han-Lin Wang
Dr. Wenbo Chen
Dr. Fei Han
Guest Editors

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