Special Collection on Geotechnical Uncertainty Quantification and Reliability Analysis in the Digital Era: New Paradigms, Methods, and Applications (SC077A)
Submit Paper » Description The digital era is reshaping geotechnical uncertainty quantification (UQ) and reliability analysis through modern sensing, continuous monitoring, high-performance computing, and digital-twin ecosystems. Practice is increasingly data-rich, yet still challenged by sparse/biased data, nonstationarity, and complex ground–structure interactions. Meanwhile, the rapid integration of machine learning with physics-based and probabilistic models raises new demands for rigor, transparency, data efficiency, and deployability. This Special Collection seeks original research and practice-oriented advances that (i) separate, represent, propagate, and reduce uncertainty from site characterization and design to construction and operation, and (ii) translate uncertainty into decision-ready reliability and risk metrics. Contributions featuring verification/validation, uncertainty-aware interpretability, and reproducible workflows or well-documented datasets/case studies are particularly encouraged. ...