Advances in Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue entitled “Advances in Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering” is devoted to the publication of the latest research, field works, and laboratory investigations in the area of rock mechanics and geotechnical engineering. This Special Issue publishes novel contributions in different areas of geotechnical and geomechanical engineering such as slope and embankment, tunneling and underground space technologies, pile and foundation, rock mechanics and rock blasting, excavation and leveling projects, ground improvement techniques, unsaturated soil, practical issues in soft soil, mining technology, geo-environmental engineering, new laboratory testing, applied geology for construction, novel geotechnical construction methods.

The focus of this Special Issue is on the development of computational methods for solving problems in the fields of rock mechanics and geotechnical engineering. Articles submitted to this Special Issue can also be concerned with the most important recent artificial intelligence, optimization algorithms, hybrid intelligent systems, and their applications in the area of geotechnical and mining engineering. In recent years, the mentioned methods are being increasingly used for the applications on most of the nonlinear problems related to the real world. We invite researchers to contribute original research articles as well as review articles that will stimulate the continuing research effort on applications of recent computational and intelligence methods to assess/solve different geotechnical and geomechanical engineering problems.

Dr. Mahdi Hasanipanah
Dr. Danial Jahed Armaghani
Dr. Jian Zhou
Guest Editors

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