Evaluation and Monitoring of Hydrogeological Hazards in Underground Engineering
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrogeology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 2822
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Interests: geohazard in subsea tunnel; applied geophysics in subsea tunnel; water inrush disaster; dynamic response of subsea tunnel; artificial intelligence in subsea tunnel
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Dear Colleagues,
Underground engineering, including tunneling, underground caverns, and mining, is often threatened by complex hydrogeological hazards. On the one hand, water inrush, karst collapse, soft rock deformation, and fault zone water disasters frequently cause construction accidents, posing severe risks to safety, schedule, and cost. On the other hand, these hazards may also lead to groundwater depletion, water pollution, and long-term environmental impacts.
In recent years, significant progress has been made in hazard prevention and control technologies, advanced geological prediction, and monitoring systems. However, many challenges remain, such as the mechanisms of disasters in deep and high-stress conditions, intelligent monitoring and early-warning methods, hydro-geo-mechanical coupling processes, and sustainable approaches for underground construction.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Mechanisms of water-related hazards.
- Advanced geological prediction.
- Prediction and risk evaluation.
- Monitoring methods.
- Intelligent early-warning systems.
- Hydro-geo-mechanical coupling.
- Sustainable approaches for water-related hazards.
- Control and treatment of water-related hazards.
- Modeling and simulation of hydrogeological processes.
- Case studies about water-related hazards.
- Large tunnels in mountainous areas.
- Tunnels on high-speed rail lines below the water table.
- Tunnels beneath the seabed.
- Large caverns for fluid storage or power generation.
Dr. Zhiqiang Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mechanisms of water-related hazards
- advanced geological prediction
- prediction and risk evaluation
- monitoring methods
- intelligent early-warning systems
- hydro-geo-mechanical coupling
- sustainable approaches for water-related hazards
- control and treatment of water-related hazards
- modeling and simulation of hydrogeological processes
- case studies obout water-related hazards
- large tunnels in mountainous areas
- tunnels on high-speed rail lines below the water table
- tunnels beneath the seabed
- large caverns for fluid storage or power generation
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