Advanced Numerical Modelling and Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Geosciences aims to gather high-quality original research articles, reviews, and technical notes on the use of advanced numerical modelling and analysis in geotechnical engineering.

Today, the upcoming need to construct more sustainable and resilient new geostructures or re-purpose and re-use existing ones creates a more significant challenge for geo-engineers and geo-scientists, who are requested to design complex projects while optimising available resources. It is evident that numerical modelling is widely used to design or back-analyse geotechnical structures such as tunnels, deep basements, slopes, dams, retaining walls, and foundations. However, advances in the speed and memory of computers mean that it is no longer just experts that use them, as increasingly sophisticated tools are being used by more and more engineers and geoscientists to build and run ever more complex models. There is, therefore, a greater need for knowledge sharing and returns of experience and lessons learnt amongst the geoengineering and geosciences community on this topic.

We would like to invite you to submit articles on your recent work, experimental research or case studies, with respect to the above and/or the following topics:

• Advanced and/or novel constitutive models;
• Probabilistic analyses and random finite element methods;
• Non-standard numerical methods such as particle flow or meshless methods;
• Parametric design methods;
• Back-analysis of real geotechnical structures or of laboratory tests;
• Long-term and time-dependent behaviour in geotechnical and geo-engineering;
• Numerical modelling and machine learning in geotechnical and geo-engineering.

We also encourage you to send us a short abstract outlining the purpose of the research and the principal results obtained, in order to verify at an early stage if the contribution you intend to submit fits with the objectives of the Special Issue.

Dr. Chrysothemis Paraskevopoulou
Dr. Benoit Jones
Guest Editors

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