About This Special Issue

The rapid evolution of AI technologies over the past decades has profoundly impacted diverse sectors, including the engineering domain. AI techniques have already shown particular promise for handling geotechnical and underground engineering problems. These pose unique challenges stemming from the unpredictable nature of ground conditions, the intricacies of subsurface environments, and the critical nature of infrastructural reliability and safety associated with geotechnical and underground engineering activities.

The complex on-site conditions and limited and imprecise data collection render the validation of existing physical models and their application in the context of engineering decision making challenging. In many situations, however, it is even hard to identify the appropriate physical models for corresponding engineering applications.

This special issue aims to provide a forum for the investigation and adaptation of emerging AI techniques to advance geotechnical data analysis and decision support, which is expected to improve reliability, resilience, and sustainability for geotechnical and underground engineering.

Manuscript Submission Information

Authors are invited to submit their papers to the Editorial Manager System of the journal. When submitting your manuscript please select the article type "VSI: ARGUE". Please submit your manuscript before the submission deadline.

• The submission portal opened on August 1, 2024
• The submission deadline is May 1, 2026

All submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Once your manuscript is accepted, it will go into production, and will be simultaneously published in the current regular issue and pulled into the online Special Issue. Articles from this Special Issue will appear in different regular issues of the journal, though they will be clearly marked and branded as Special Issue articles.

Please ensure you read the Guide for Authors before writing your manuscript. The Guide for Authors and the link to submit your manuscript is available on the Journal's homepage.