Sustainability in Geology and Civil Engineering
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 October 2023) | Viewed by 47619
Special Issue Editors
2. State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
Interests: disaster-causing mechanism, prevention and control technology of underground engineering under hydro-dynamic coupling
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Interests: landslides; rock avalanches; debris flows; debris floods
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Interests: engineered cementitious composites; aging mechanism of materials; micromechanics; green high performance concrete
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In 2014, a plan entitled “Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Agenda 2030)” was proposed by the United Nations (UN) at the UN Sustainable Development Summit to fix global problems. It states 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs or Global Goals) to overcome the world’s challenges, including industry, innovation, infrastructure, and the effects of climate change. Civil engineering makes a great contribution to the development of human civilization, but also consumes a large number of resources and energy. Sustainable civil engineering is one of the important ways to realize the sustainable development of human society. Under the influence of global environmental change and human activities, civil engineering construction and operation are faced with more and more disasters, and sustainable development has become the primary concern of civil engineering. Disaster prevention and mitigation of infrastructure engineering has become one of the important research fields in civil engineering. In recent years, resilience civil engineering design has gradually become the international research frontier in this field. The main goal of "resilience design" is to improve the capability of civil engineering to deal with risks, and to comprehensively improve the robustness, adaptability and post-disaster recovery of the functional system of engineering structure and geological body. In addition, the goal of "green development, energy saving and emission reduction, low-carbon economy" has gradually become one of the inevitable requirements for the sustainable development of civil engineering construction industry.
Many efforts have been made on the sustainability of civil engineering and various analytical methods and theories have been developed. However, the sustainable development of civil engineering is a systematic theory and technology system in many aspects of design, and the related construction technology, evaluation technology, prevention and control technology, repair technology, design theory and other aspects are not completely clear. Methods of investigation, experiment and numerical analysis also need to be developed.
This Special Issue aims to provide an outlet for original research and review articles focusing on the most recent advances and challenges related to sustainable development in geotechnical and structural engineering. We welcome submissions related to field investigations and monitoring, theoretical derivations, laboratory tests, numerical and physical modeling.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.
Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Sustainable design method and theory in geotechnical engineering and structural engineering
- Design, construction, operation and maintenance technology for green civil engineering
- New environmentally friendly, economical and recyclable building materials
- Advanced methods for monitoring disaster process in geotechnical engineering and structural engineering
- Application or case study of the numerical method and physical simulation method in geotechnical and structural engineering disasters
- Progress of analysis and simulation techniques for geotechnical and structural disasters
- Engineering structure and geophysical characteristics under multi-load coupling
- Disaster risk assessment and mitigation measures of engineering structure and geotechnical engineering at different scales
- Other hazards (e.g., deterioration of engineering structure or rock-soil body subject to frequent earthquake, heavy rainfall, freeze–thaw, etc.) assessment, prevention and control technology.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Danqing Song
Dr. Zhuo Chen
Dr. Mengxin Liu
Dr. Yutian Ke
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- geotechnical engineering
- structural engineering
- disaster evaluation
- disaster prevention and control
- green building materials
- numerical analysis
- model test
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