Call for papers in the Special Issue on:

“Intensive Construction Technology for Urban Underground Space (ICT for UUS)”

in Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering

Guest Editors:

Prof. Yong Yuan, Tongji University, China, yuany@tongji.edu.cn

Prof. Roberto Cudmani, Technical University of Munich, Germany, roberto.cudmani@tum.de 

Prof. Xian Liu, Tongji University, China, xian.liu@tongji.edu.cn

Associate Prof. Emilio Bilotta, University of Naples Federico II, Italy, bilotta@unina.it 

Dr. Jiao-Long Zhang, Tongji University, China, Jiaolong_Zhang@tongji.edu.cn 

FSCE editor:

Prof. Haitao Yu, Tongji University, China, yuhaitao@tongji.edu.cn 

Rapid urbanization results in the great development of underground facilities. This is underlined by the rapidly increasing number of metro lines, utility tunnels, water conveyance tunnels, underground stations, underground cities, underground garages, and underground storages for water, grains, data devices, etc. High utilization of urban underground space (UUS) requires Intensive Construction Technology (ICT). The latter refers to the reduction of precious resources, e.g. land, time, and cost, used for construction of underground structures and to the increase of the economic, social, and environmental benefits gained from use of the underground space made accessible. A large number of novel techniques are developed for geological survey, design, construction, and maintenance of the underground facilities. Their development is a consequence of the industrial revolutions. Therefore, such technology has exhibited distinctive industrial characteristics, e.g. mechanization, automation, digitization, and intellectualization. ICT has been widely used in practices, resulting in reliable and resilient underground structures. However, the involved scientific issues are just unfolding, due to a knowledge gap between the communities of scientists and engineers. This provides the motivation for this special issue to overview both the scientific developments and the engineering projects, related to ITC in the field of urban underground engineering. It is aimed to bridge the gap between the communities of scientists and engineers, identify the international frontiers of research, and convert the technology of practice into scientific achievements of human civilization.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

· Digital twin for tunneling

· Synchronization of drilling and assembly of segments

· Fully Prefabricated tunnels

· Prefabricated water storage tank

· Tunneling without work shafts

· Intensive utilization of underground space

· Intelligent survey and monitoring

· New construction methods

· New applications of industrialized construction techniques

· Advanced modeling of industrialized construction

· Structural behavior of new underground structures, elements, joints etc.

· Digital twin for maintenance of underground structures

· Jamming of TBM

· Large-diameter shield tunnels used as metro stations

· Vertical shield tunnel

Instructions for submission:

Please submit your manuscript before the submission deadline (Dec. 31, 2023) in the submission website:

https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fsce 

Choose in the list of special issues:

SI: Intensive Construction Technology

All submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. In order to shorten the publishing period, articles from this Special Issue will appear in a regular issue of the journal as soon as they are accepted, though they will be clearly marked and branded as Special Issue articles.