Digging Deeper: Insights and Innovations in Rock Mechanics
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 297
Special Issue Editors
Interests: rock mechanics; slope stability; numerical modelling
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Interests: applied geology; microstructures; rock mechanics; evaporitic rocks
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The characterization and monitoring of rock masses are based on information gathered at different levels. In order to establish a reliable model of a rock mass, geological, geostructural, and geomechanical information are necessary. The development of advanced survey techniques, such as digital photogrammetry, laser scanning, SAR interferometry, and optical and thermal sensing, has supplied powerful instruments in rock mechanics, particularly for the study of rock discontinuities and their role in stability. In parallel, laboratory testing equipment and procedures have greatly improved, allowing for more reliable and extensive investigations of the rock matrix. Moreover, the evolution of numerical modeling methods enables the full exploitation of the acquired data in order to understand and simulate rock mass behavior.
This Special Issue aims to collect a broad range of innovative applications of such technologies.
We would like to invite you to submit articles on your recent work, experimental research or case studies, with respect to the above topics.
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.
Prof. Gessica Umili
Dr. Chiara Caselle
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rock mechanics
- rock mass
- laboratory testing
- geomechanical survey
- digital twin
- numerical modeling
- tunnel
- statistical analysis
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