Applied Sciences Webinar | New Challenges in Urban Underground Engineering, 11 November 2024

Welcome to this online seminar, which is technically supported by MDPI. The purpose of this online seminar is to provide a mini forum to promote scientific research on urban underground engineering that has emerged in recent years. With the increasing exploitation of underground space and construction of high-rise buildings in urban areas, numerous underground projects have emerged, constantly expanding in scale and depth. However, during the construction of urban underground engineering, various issues arise such as penetrative destruction, local dewatering, uplift pressure, and corrosivity. While research on urban land and underground space currently focuses primarily on engineering technology, a comprehensive analysis of the entire situation is necessary. To promote the scientific study on urban underground engineering, we have launched a Special Issue in Applied Science entitled “New Challenges in Urban Underground Engineering”.

We have received eight submissions and two of them have been published. We are hoping researchers and scientists who are working on issues related to this Special Issue will consider submitting their papers to this Special Issue. Today, we are happy to have three speakers join this online seminar: Dr. Qian Fang, Dr. Xuesong Cheng, and Dr. Sulei Zhang. These speakers are young doctors and have worked on urban underground engineering-related studies. They will present what they have achieved and what they have found.

Date: 11 November 2024 at 3:00 a.m. CET | 10:00 a.m. CST Asia
Webinar ID: 874 6557 8652

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Program:

Speaker/Presentation	Time in CET	Time in CST Asia
Prof. Dr. Pengfei Li Chair Introduction	03:00–03:10 a.m.	10:00–10:10 a.m.
Prof. Dr. Qian Fang AI in Tunnel Engineering	03:10–03:30 a.m.	10:10–10:30 a.m.
Dr. Xuesong Cheng System Safety Performance and Resilience of Deep Excavation and Underground Engineering	03:30–03:50 a.m.	10:30–10:50 a.m.
Prof. Dr. Sulei Zhang Collapse Mechanism of the Soil–Sand–Rock Composite Strata Under Disturbance During Subway Tunnel Construction	03:50–04:10 a.m.	10:50–11:10 a.m.
Q&A Session	04:10–04:20 a.m.	11:10–11:20 a.m.
Prof. Dr. Pengfei Li Closing of Webinar	04:20–04:30 a.m.	11:20–11:30 a.m.

Webinar Chair and Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Pengfei Li (Chair), Key Laboratory of Urban Security and Disaster Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Technology, China;
Prof. Dr. Qian Fang, Key Laboratory for Urban Underground Engineering of Ministry of Education, Beijing Jiaotong University, China;
Dr. Xuesong Cheng, Department of Civil Engineering, Tianjin University, China;
Prof. Dr. Sulei Zhang, School of Civil Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, China.

Relevant Special Issue:
“New Challenges in Urban Underground Engineering”
Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Pengfei Li and Prof. Dr. Qian Fang
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025

For more information about this webinar, please visit the following link: https://sciforum.net/event/ApplSci-17.