Underground spaces, including tunnels, basements, and subterranean facilities, are integral components of modern urban infrastructure. This Research Topic aims to bring together cutting-edge research addressing the challenges posed by complex environmental conditions on the structural integrity and resilience of underground constructions.
Contributions to this Research Topic will cover a wide range of topics, including advanced numerical modeling techniques, experimental investigations, risk assessment methodologies, sensing and AI applications, and innovative strategies for enhancing the resilience of underground structures. The focus is on understanding the evolution of damage mechanisms under diverse environmental stressors, such as geological influences, extreme weather events, and anthropogenic activities.
We invite researchers, engineers, and practitioners from the fields of civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, geological engineering, and related disciplines to submit their Original Research, Review, Hypothesis & Theory, Methods, etc. This Research Topic provides a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration, fostering the exchange of ideas and methodologies that contribute to the advancement of our understanding of underground structure behavior in complex environments. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
1. Damage evolution of underground structures under complex environmental conditions;
2. Advances in the design of tunnels and underground structures;
3. Risk assessment of underground structures;
4. Resilience-based evaluation, lifetime considerations and adaptation of tunnels and underground structures to natural hazards;
5. Impacts of climate change, corrosion/ageing effects or human-induced hazards (e.g., explosions) for underground infrastructure.
Keywords:
Complex environmental conditions, Risk assessment, Resilience-based evaluation, Underground Structures
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Underground spaces, including tunnels, basements, and subterranean facilities, are integral components of modern urban infrastructure. This Research Topic aims to bring together cutting-edge research addressing the challenges posed by complex environmental conditions on the structural integrity and resilience of underground constructions.
Contributions to this Research Topic will cover a wide range of topics, including advanced numerical modeling techniques, experimental investigations, risk assessment methodologies, sensing and AI applications, and innovative strategies for enhancing the resilience of underground structures. The focus is on understanding the evolution of damage mechanisms under diverse environmental stressors, such as geological influences, extreme weather events, and anthropogenic activities.
We invite researchers, engineers, and practitioners from the fields of civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, geological engineering, and related disciplines to submit their Original Research, Review, Hypothesis & Theory, Methods, etc. This Research Topic provides a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration, fostering the exchange of ideas and methodologies that contribute to the advancement of our understanding of underground structure behavior in complex environments. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
1. Damage evolution of underground structures under complex environmental conditions;
2. Advances in the design of tunnels and underground structures;
3. Risk assessment of underground structures;
4. Resilience-based evaluation, lifetime considerations and adaptation of tunnels and underground structures to natural hazards;
5. Impacts of climate change, corrosion/ageing effects or human-induced hazards (e.g., explosions) for underground infrastructure.
Keywords:
Complex environmental conditions, Risk assessment, Resilience-based evaluation, Underground Structures
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.