Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A - Call for Papers “SPECIAL ISSUE: Soil Particle-Fluid Interaction Problems in Geotechnical Engineering towards Sustainability”
Building a sustainable society is becoming increasingly important. Geotechnical engineering, as a dynamic interface between human society and the earth system, can make significant contributions to developing innovative solutions for sustainable development. Meanwhile, geo-hazards, including landslides, debris flows, collapse of dikes/levees, ground subsidence, and sinkholes/cavities have caused great infrastructure damages and loss of lives around the world each year. Hazard mitigation and prevention are a long-standing challenge. One major mechanism accounting for these geo-hazards is the particle migration induced by soil particle-fluid interaction, including suffusion, backward erosion, piping, surface erosion and slurry/grout penetration in tunnel engineering. There is an urgent need to advance the understanding of soil particle-fluid interaction for better hazard mitigation. Innovative experimental methods to investigate soil particle-fluid interaction mechanisms (e.g. the effects of stress state, flow path/direction/velocity, uniformity of soil, particle shape, soil fabric, etc.) are needed. Meanwhile, numerical approaches with certain assumptions and simplifications have been proposed to describe soil particle-fluid interaction. Advanced predictive models that consider grain-scale physics during the interaction process are still needed. Moreover, advances in the modelling of practical problems using big data and artificial intelligence have overcome the limitations of conventional physics-based models, offering an alternative approach to modelling complex multiphase systems. This special issue will contain the original works highlighting recent advances in various subjects addressing soil particle-fluid interaction problems and innovative methods in geotechnical engineering towards sustainability.
Focal points of the special issue include, but are not limited to innovative applications:
(1) Innovative experimental methods to investigate soil particle-fluid interaction mechanisms.
(2) Advancements in the numerical modelling of soil particle-fluid interaction problems.
(3) Big data and artificial intelligence in geotechnics.
(4) Constitutive modelling of geomaterials.
(5) Sustainability and resilience of infrastructures.
Guest Editors:
Dr. Jie YANG,
Shenzhen University, China
ce.jie.yang@szu.edu.cn (this opens in a new tab) ;
Prof. Zhen-Yu YIN,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
zhenyu.yin@polyu.edu.hk (this opens in a new tab)
Prof. Ming XIAO,
The Pennsylvania State University, USA
mzx102@psu.edu (this opens in a new tab)
Contact
JZUS-A Editorial Office
E-mail: jzus_zxx@zju.edu.cn
Tel: +86 (0) 571-8795 2783
Submission Deadline: Dec. 31, 2023
Publication Date: July 2024
Note to authors:
Online submission: https://www.editorialmanager.com/zusa (this opens in a new tab)
Please pay attention that the submssion belongs to the special issue Soil Particle-Fluid Interaction Problems in Geotechnical Engineering towards Sustainability in the Editorial Manager.
Papers will be published online upon acceptance, regardless of the publication date of the special issue
Welcome your contributions!