Physical Monitoring and Healthy Controlling of Geotechnical Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

Geotechnical engineering has been closely involved with numerous multi-scale activities throughout human history. Recently, the role of geotechnical engineering is becoming more important in many fields including mining, tunnelling, roads, railways, slopes, buildings, bridges, foundations, and (tailing) dams, with global economic development, the increase in infrastructure facilities, and the increasing demand for safety. Due to the increasing amount and complexity of current geotechnical engineering, the effective physical monitoring and healthy control are, however, gradually becoming challenging topics for the application, running, and maintenance of geotechnical engineering. It is necessary to interpret the physical status of geotechnical engineering sites by co-operating with different monitoring approaches and to then perform effective control measures to prevent possible engineering-induced disasters. This research topic aims to provide a stage for novel research and new advances for monitoring and control in the field of geotechnical engineering. We welcome submissions from experts and scholars on the physical monitoring, disaster control, geomechanics and geophysics, induced seismicity, deformation of geomaterials, analogue modelling, numerical modelling, remote sensing applications, and intelligent geotechnical engineering. The areas to be covered in this research topic may include, but are not limited to: General Topics: 

• Physical monitoring in geotechnical engineering;
• Disaster control in geotechnical engineering;
• Geomechanics and geophysics;
• Induced seismicity;
• Deformation and failure of geomaterials;
• Physics and mechanics of geomaterials;
• Analog modelling in geotechnical engineering;
• Numerical modelling of geotechnical models;
• Intelligent geotechnical engineering;
• Healthy development of geotechnical engineering;
• Safety management in geotechnical engineering;
• Human–machine-environment system;
• Geotechnical sensors;
• Active and passive microwave remote sensing;
• Lidar and laser scanning;
• Geometric reconstruction;
• Physical modelling and signatures;
• Change detection;
• Image processing and pattern recognition;
• Operational processing facilities;
• Remote sensing applications.

Prof. Dr. Longjun Dong
Dr. Daoyuan Sun
Dr. Ju Ma
Dr. Weiwei Shu
Prof. Dr. Qiong Wu
Prof. Dr. Rui Yong
Dr. Kun Fang
Dr. Tao Wen
Topic Editors