Deep Earth and Deep Sea Engineering: Challenges, Theory and Advance Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

This Topic will cover various aspects such as deep earth resource extraction, underground space utilization, deep sea resource development, and deep sea environment monitoring. Firstly, we will analyze the difficult problems encountered by deep earth engineering in resource extraction and underground space utilization, such as the mechanical properties of rocks under high-temperature and high-pressure environments, the stability of underground space structures, etc., and discuss the corresponding theoretical innovations and technological solutions.

Secondly, in the area of deep sea engineering, another important research direction, we will focus on the technical challenges in deep sea resource development, such as deep sea drilling, deep sea mining, deep sea energy development, etc., and introduce the related technological advances and theoretical innovations. Meanwhile, we will also discuss the importance of deep sea environmental monitoring, including the protection of deep sea ecosystems, early warning of deep sea geohazards, etc., and share the latest research results and application cases.

Prof. Dr. Bin Gong
Prof. Dr. Yujing Jiang
Dr. Satoshi Sugimoto
Dr. Xuelong Li
Dr. Xianfeng Liu
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