Aims & Scope
This Special Collection (SC) aims to provide a dedicated space for in-depth exploration and dissemination of advancements in uncertainty modeling and quantification of numerical methods in geotechnical engineering. The primary goal of this SC is to feature emerging developments, which address the calibration of soil or rock constitutive models developed in recent time, data-driven and physics-informed models for soil or rock constitutive relations, database assessment of the variability in geotechnical numerical predictions, and benchmark exercises for geotechnical analyses by commercial software. The contributions are supposed to provide a deeper insight into the calibration and verification of numerical models in geotechnics, as well as the quantification of variability in numerical predictions of geo-structural response (e.g., deformation, capacity or stability). By establishing this SC, we aim to foster a collaborative environment that encourages researchers to contribute high-quality works, sharing insights and innovations in the field of uncertainty in geotechnical numerical methods.
Topics
- Calibration and verification of recent soil/rock constitutive models
- Data-driven and physics-informed soil/rock constitutive models
- Physics-informed learning machines in geotechnics (e.g., encode physics into the neural network architecture or add physics soft constraints in the neural network optimization process)
- Simulation of geotechnical spatial variability in numerical analyses
- Database assessment of the accuracy of numerical predictions in geotechnics
- Incorporation of monitoring data into geotechnical numerical methods
- Numerical methods for offshore geotechnics
- Benchmark exercises for numerical analyses in geotechnics
Special Issue Publication Dates
Paper submission deadline: December 31, 2024
Initial review completed: February 28, 2025
Publication date: August 31, 2025
Guest Editors
- Kok-Kwang Phoon, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, ( kkphoon@sutd.edu.sg )
- Chong Tang, Dalian University of Technology, China, ( ceetc@dlut.edu.cn )
- Xiaowei Feng, Dalian University of Technology, China ( xfeng@dlut.edu.cn )
Submission Guidelines
- Please submit your manuscript via the Journal of ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering website.
- If you already have an Editorial Manager account, log in as author and select Submit Paper at the bottom of the page. If you do not have an account, select Submissions and follow the steps. In either case, at the Paper Submittal page, select the Journal of ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering and then select the special collection Risk and Reliability Analysis of Resilient Civil Engineering Structures with Vibration Control Devices.
- Detailed information on the submission process is provided in the “Publishing in ASCE Journals” section of the ASCE Author Center .
- Papers received after the deadline or papers not selected for inclusion in the Special Issue may be accepted for publication in a regular issue.
Please note that all accepted papers submitted in response to this Call for Papers will be published in regular issues of the Journal of ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering and assembled online on a page dedicated to this Special Collection. See Journal of ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering Special Collections for the list of Special Collections already published.