Advanced Geotechnics: Optimization, Reliability, and Intelligent Methods for Underground, Foundation, and Earth Structures
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2026 | Viewed by 19
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geotechnical design and analysis; construction materials; construction; reliability based design; optimization; neural networks and artificial intelligence
Interests: civil engineering structures; optimization, steel structures; intelligence; sustainability; LCA
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to bring together cutting-edge research that advances geotechnical engineering through optimization, reliability concepts, and intelligent data-driven methods. We welcome contributions addressing underground structures, foundations, embankments, pavements, slopes, earth-retaining systems, and other geotechnical works, both in research and in practice.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, optimization-based design (single and multiobjective) of geotechnical and soil–structure systems; reliability-based and performance-based design frameworks; probabilistic modeling of soil and rock parameters; and the integration of geotechnical and structural limit states in unified design procedures. We particularly encourage studies that utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning tools such as neural networks, ANFIS, hybrid, and surrogate models for prediction, decision support, and design-space exploration.
We also welcome contributions on site investigation planning and interpretation, model calibration and validation, field monitoring, and digital workflows (including numerical modeling, model updating, and digital twins). Both methodological papers and application-oriented case studies are encouraged, especially those demonstrating clear implications for safer, more economical, and more sustainable geotechnical design and construction.
Dr. Primož Jelušič
Dr. Tomaž Žula
Guest Editors
Dr. Rok Varga
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- geotechnical engineering
- underground structures
- foundations
- earth structures
- optimization
- multi-objective design
- reliability-based design
- sustainability
- machine learning
- numerical modeling
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