Special Issue Railway Earthwork Maintenance and Design: Advanced Structures and Technologies

School of Civil Engineering, Qingdao 

University of Technology, Qingdao 

266033, China  

engineering; slurry dewatering; data assimilation; 

CFD-DEM simulations; consolidation theory  

College of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang 

University of Technology, Hangzhou 

310058, China  

Dr. Honglei Sun

Dr. Junwei Liu

Guest Editors  

        The performance of railway systems largely depends on railway infrastructure earthwork conditions. Many of earthworks alongside the railway were built more than 100 years ago and were poorly engineered by modern standards. Moreover, with the increasingly frequent severe weather conditions due to climate change and the increasing demands for the mobility and transportation of goods, maintaining a high level of safety performance for our aging railway systems remains a constant challenge. However, with the development of modern technologies, e.g., Earth Observation, Artificial Intelligence, and advanced sensor development, we can modernise and upgrade our existing railway system not only to ensure a safe running of the train, but also to achieve an even more reliable and more efficient railway performance. This Special Issue aims to collect the newest technology related to the maintenance of the existing railway earthwork and the design for the future.  

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◇   AI

◇   uncertain quantification

◇   low CO2  emission

◇   earthwork

◇   stability

◇   climate change