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Light in the Ground: Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing for Rock and Soil Behavior Monitoring
This special issue belongs to the section “Geomechanics“.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Distributed fibre-optic sensing (DFOS) technology—characterised by millimetric form factors, intrinsic immunity to electromagnetic interference, and spatio-temporal continuity—has experienced rapid uptake in geotechnical monitoring. This Special Issue is dedicated to the interrogation of multi-physical fields and attendant mechanical behaviours of rock and soil via DFOS, encompassing deformation, temperature, seepage, vibration, and the cascading geohazards precipitated by their evolution.
Dr. Mengya Sun
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- distributed fibre-optic sensing (DFOS)
- geotechnical monitoring
- multi-physical fields
- mechanical behaviour
- geohazards
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