Reliability and Risk Assessment for Sustainable Development: Engineering and Science
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 1696
Special Issue Editors
Interests: spatial variability of geotechnical parameters; random field and stochastic finite element; constitutive model of frozen soil; stochastic analysis for geotechnical engineering
Interests: offshore geotechnical engineering; tunnelling and underground space technology; marine civil engineering construction; artificial ground freezing technology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Engineering risk assessment is of great significance to sustainable development. Environmental impact assessment is a key part of project risk assessment, which aims to identify and predict the potential impact of a project on the environment, so as to provide a basis for environmental protection and sustainable development. Through evaluation, it is possible to ensure that engineering projects meet economic and social development without causing irreversible damage to the environment, thus promoting sustainable development. Project risk assessment also needs to identify and prevent risks that may occur in the process of project implementation, including technical risks, market risks, policy risks, natural disaster risks, etc. This will help ensure the smooth progress of the project, reduce the negative impact on the environment, and ensure the harmonious coexistence of the project and the environment. The main contents of engineering risk assessment include risk identification and classification, risk probability and consequence assessment, risk impact analysis, risk control measure assessment, risk management and monitoring, risk communication and participation, and risk assessment tools and methods.
This Special Issue will publish high-quality, original research papers in the following overlapping fields:
- Case histories;
- Engineering risk assessment;
- Engineering design;
- Geo-investigation;
- Geomechanics analysis;
- Design and modeling
- Construction and monitoring;
- Frozen soil environment;
- Reliability analysis;
- Urban engineering geology;
- Slope instability;
- Freeze–thaw disaster;
- underground engineering;
- Deformation and failure;
- Multi-field coupling;
- Uncertainty analysis;
- Probability method;
- Risk assessment;
- Disaster warning.
Dr. Tao Wang
Prof. Dr. Jun Hu
Prof. Dr. Zhiqiang Ji
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- engineering disaster
- reliability analysis
- risk assessment
- sustainable development
- multi-field coupling
- interaction
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