Special Issue on Urban Underground Space Development Technologies

Abstract

The special issue of 'Urban Underground Space Development Technologies' in the Journal of Aerospace Engineering aims to present new developments on large earth excavation technologies and to promote sustainable development on earth, in space, and on other planetary bodies. This unique special issue on underground space also diversifies the topics presented in the journal. In this special issue, the recent progress in underground development in Shanghai are presented, ranging from the novel design and construction methods for deep excavation and large tunnels, to convenient methods for ground response prediction, to special behavior of soil-water coupling, and to the new back-analysis method for parameters in numerical prediction, to theoretical study postbuckling behavior of buried geodesically-stiffened pipelines under combined external pressure and axial compression.