About this Research Topic
With the rapid development of the economy, the scale of underground projects in national defense, transportation, water conservancy and other industries has grown rapidly. Underground space has become developing land resources all over the world. Underground space development often faces a geological environment of complex in-situ stress, increasing water inflow, and higher ground temperature rise. The solid-liquid-gas and temperature coupling effect of geotechnical materials and the interaction with underground structure lead to strong nonlinearity and obvious time-dependent properties of underground engineering, and sudden disasters increase sharply.The basic theory and engineering technology of geotechnical mechanics are facing an unprecedented series of special and challenging new fields and new topics.
This research topic aims to understand the geotechnical mechanics problems encountered in underground engineering comprehensively. By studying the relationship between mechanical characteristics of geotechnical materials and underground structures, there will be a systematic understanding of the physical characteristics of geotechnical materials, including rock and soil, such as deformation characteristics, strength characteristics, permeability characteristics, and failure modes. There are three goals in this Research Topic. Firstly, the recent advances in a numerical and experimental method in the stability analysis of underground engineering are collected. Second, a very powerful framework to understand the macroscopic behavior of rock and soil mass under complex geological conditions in underground engineering is provided. Third, advanced construction technology and its application in underground geotechnical engineering are discussed.
This Research Topic provides a platform for publishing original articles and reviews on recent numerical and experimental advances and applications on microscopic structure effect analysis of geomaterials encountered in underground engineering. We welcome high-quality papers on theoretical developments, laboratory testing, field investigations, computational methods and case studies.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
• The effect of complex geological environment and underground engineering applications
• Advanced construction technology in tunnel engineering
• Advanced treatment method of particular rock and soil mass in underground engineering
• numerical methods for stability analysis of underground engineering under complex geological conditions
• T-H-M coupling and geotechnical engineering applications
• Rock burst prediction technology
This research topic aims to understand the geotechnical mechanics problems encountered in underground engineering comprehensively. By studying the relationship between mechanical characteristics of geotechnical materials and underground structures, there will be a systematic understanding of the physical characteristics of geotechnical materials, including rock and soil, such as deformation characteristics, strength characteristics, permeability characteristics, and failure modes. There are three goals in this Research Topic. Firstly, the recent advances in a numerical and experimental method in the stability analysis of underground engineering are collected. Second, a very powerful framework to understand the macroscopic behavior of rock and soil mass under complex geological conditions in underground engineering is provided. Third, advanced construction technology and its application in underground geotechnical engineering are discussed.
This Research Topic provides a platform for publishing original articles and reviews on recent numerical and experimental advances and applications on microscopic structure effect analysis of geomaterials encountered in underground engineering. We welcome high-quality papers on theoretical developments, laboratory testing, field investigations, computational methods and case studies.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
• The effect of complex geological environment and underground engineering applications
• Advanced construction technology in tunnel engineering
• Advanced treatment method of particular rock and soil mass in underground engineering
• numerical methods for stability analysis of underground engineering under complex geological conditions
• T-H-M coupling and geotechnical engineering applications
• Rock burst prediction technology
Keywords: Geotechnical mechanics, Numerical simulation, Experimental study, Excavation support, Tunnel deformation, Excavation damaged zone
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