Recent Advances in Environmental Geotechnics and Transportation Geotechnics for Sustainable Engineering Solutions
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 1121
Special Issue Editors
Interests: transportation geotechnics; earthquake geotechnics; constitutive modeling of granular media; finite elements
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Dear Colleagues,
Modern civil engineering faces serious challenges, creating projects of underground construction. Climate change and energy transformation require innovative “green” solutions that minimize the negative impact on the environment during the implementation of geotechnical engineering projects and are, at the same time, energy-efficient. Although, traditionally, the sustainability of geotechnical objects was interpreted as their ability to retain their functionality over time and maintain their efficiency, reliability, and resilience, the new challenge of geotechnics is sustainable and environmentally friendly development.
This Special Issue, entitled “Recent Advances in Environmental Geotechnics and Transportation Geotechnics for Sustainable Engineering Solutions”, aims to combine the efforts of researchers, practitioners, and experts to discuss and solve the problems in contemporary geotechnics for sustainable engineering.
The usage of the basic principles of rock and soil mechanics to solve engineering problems is not sufficient today. Sustainable geotechnical design is impossible without accurate predictions of rock behavior under the influence of static and dynamic loads, moisture, temperature, and vibration. Experimental methods/testing methods and in situ monitoring are of particular importance today. Geotechnical engineers increasingly face natural hazards, so new solutions are sought for more effective methods of their prediction and prevention, including modern methods of numerical analysis, monitoring the state of rock masses and underground structures, and the application of computer-aided design programs.
Therefore, this Special Issue welcomes the submission of manuscripts that focus on various aspects of sustainability in environmental geotechnics that enhance our knowledge and understanding of the response of tunnels, roadways, and underground structures to various loads. Its purpose is to become a platform for researchers, practitioners, and experts to present their findings, share best practices, and propose novel solutions for achieving sustainability in geotechnical engineering.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome to be submitted. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Testing methods and monitoring techniques in rock mechanics and environmental geotechnics;
- Numerical simulation techniques in geotechnical engineering;
- Impact of geohazards on tunnels, roadways, and underground structures;
- Sustainable and environmentally friendly developments in geotechnics;
- Whole-life management of underground structures;
- Fracture mechanics and damage mechanics of underground construction
Dr. Sanjay Nimbalkar
Prof. Dr. Ivan Sakhno
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental geotechnics
- rock and soil mechanics
- geotechnical engineering
- tunnels
- roadway
- underground structures
- underground construction
- numerical analysis
- monitoring techniques
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