Advances in Geomechanics and Intelligent Infrastructure: Constitutive Modeling, Stability, and Resilience Under Multiphysical Fields
A special issue of Infrastructures (ISSN 2412-3811).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: (1) Hypoplastic constitutive model for predicting sand liquefaction disasters; (2) Instability Criteria and Intelligent Control Strategies for deep foundation pit support structures; (3) Intelligent monitoring of soil fractures driven by CT-three-dimensional reconstruction technology; (4) Application of Solid waste-based recycled aggregate improved soil in Green Roadbeds.
Interests: (1) Architectural technology science; (2) Management Information System; (3) Intelligent control system; (4) BIM and Digital Twin.
Interests: (1) Propagation law of stress waves in jointed rock masses; (2) Mechanical properties and damage characteristics of discontinuous rock masses; (3) Dynamic response of discontinuous rock mass; (4) Disaster prevention and mitigation of engineering rock mass; (5) Stability analysis of geotechnical mass engineering, etc. (6) Comprehensive management of poor foundations; (7) Evaluation and treatment of foundation stability for regional geological power grid projects.
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Interests: (1) The influence of microstructure on the long-term settlement of subgrade; (2) Early warning model for instability of loess slopes induced by rainfall; (3) Evolution law of foundation bearing capacity under freeze-thaw cycles; (4) Prediction method for pressure of loess surrounding rock in underground utility tunnels.
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Geotechnical infrastructure faces escalating threats from extreme climates, environmental degradation, and complex multiphysical interactions. These challenges demand innovations in constitutive modeling, stability analysis, and intelligent monitoring to ensure sustainable resilience. Current research must bridge advanced geomechanics (e.g., hypoplasticity and shear band bifurcation) with digital technologies, addressing critical gaps in infrastructure behavior prediction under seismic, environmental, and climatic stresses.
This Special Issue highlights theoretical and technological breakthroughs in geotechnical engineering, focusing on constitutive models for soil–structure systems, stability control of underground constructions, and intelligent solutions for environmental hazards. Submissions must demonstrate novel contributions to infrastructure resilience through experimental, computational, or field-based approaches.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advanced constitutive modeling:
- Hypoplastic models for granular materials under cyclic loading.
- Shear band bifurcation analysis in soil–structure systems.
- Multiscale modeling of acid-alkaline corrosion effects.
- Stability and risk mitigation:
- Stability analysis of deep excavations and underground structures.
- Seismic energy dissipation technologies for building foundations.
- Risk assessment of infrastructure in liquefiable/collapsible soils.
- Environmental geotechnics:
- Contaminant transport prediction in subsurface environments.
- Climate-adaptive ground improvement techniques.
- Thermohydromechanical coupling in permafrost regions.
- Intelligent systems integration:
- Machine learning for constitutive parameter identification.
- BIM/digital twins for stability monitoring of geotechnical assets.
- Real-time control systems for infrastructure deformation mitigation.
Dr. Guowei Fan
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ming Chang
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Shaobo Chai
Dr. Longlong Lv
Guest Editor
Dr. Guowei Fan
Dr. Ming Chang
Dr. Shaobo Chai
Dr. Longlong Lv
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- • geotechnical stability analysis • environmental geotechnics • underground structure resilience • machine learning in geomechanics • multiphysical field interactions • seismic energy dissipation • digital twins for infrastructure • climate-adaptive ground improvement • hypoplastic constitutive models • shear band bifurcation
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