New Challenges of Underground Structures in Earthquake Engineering
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2025) | Viewed by 1086
Special Issue Editors
Interests: tunnel engineering; earthquakes; faults; shaking table; resilient structures; deep space; subway construction
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Interests: tunnel engineering; earthquakes; calculation methods; software development; smart construction; tunnel construction
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure, also on behalf of my co-Guest Editors, Professors Shen Yusheng and Wang Zhengzheng, to kindly invite you and your collaborators to consider contributing to this Special Issue of Buildings.
This Special Issue of Buildings (IF = 3.1, ISSN 2075-5309) is entitled “New Challenges of Underground Structures in Earthquake Engineering”. Due to your valuable and pioneering works in this field, we would like to invite you to submit a paper to this Special Issue. The deadline for manuscript submission is *31 Mar 2025* (however, an extension can be granted, if necessary).
The objective of this Special Issue is to investigate recent advancements, emerging challenges, and approaches in seismic risk and the design of tunnels and underground structures. It aims to bring together leading researchers and practitioners to share their latest findings on seismic design, vulnerability and risk assessment, numerical modeling, and risk-based evaluation, as well as examples of resilient tunnel and underground structure design and construction.
Topics of interest for potential contributions include the ones provided below.
- The impact of earthquakes on tunnels and underground structures;
- Advances in the seismic design for tunnels and underground structures;
- Seismic vulnerability and risk assessment of tunnels and underground structures;
- Seismic early warning and safety control of tunnels and systems;
- Resilience and risk-based evaluation and adaptation of tunnels and underground structures to seismic hazards.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Applied Sciences.
Prof. Dr. Yusheng Shen
Prof. Dr. Zhengzheng Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tunnel engineering
- earthquake engineering
- seismic design
- seismic vulnerability
- model test
- seismic warning
- complex geology
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