Challenges in Geotechnical and Rock Engineering
About the Book Series
Challenges in Geotechnical and Rock Engineering presents advanced level books which focus on state of the art methods for handling problems across geotechnical engineering. Typical books are in include measuring and understanding material or structural behaviours, handling special environmental conditions, performing complex numerical simulation, design and construction for novel structures, life cycle and risk/reliability informed management, data-driven algorithms and AI-based decision making, resilience engineering, addressing climate change and sustainability, and digital twin and smart infrastructure.
Machine Learning for Data-Centric Geotechnics
1st Edition
Edited
By Kok-Kwang Phoon, Chong Tang, Zi-Jun Cao
May 27, 2026
Machine learning and other digital technologies fed with large datasets offer a major set of tools for practical geotechnical design. Large language models and other generative AIs can perform cognitive tasks currently undertaken by humans -- and might even predict the next event based on some time...
Bayesian Machine Learning in Geotechnical Site Characterization
1st Edition
By Jianye Ching
December 26, 2025
Bayesian data analysis and modelling linked with machine learning offers a new tool for handling geotechnical data. This book presents recent advancements made by the author in the area of probabilistic geotechnical site characterization. Two types of correlation play central roles in geotechnical ...
Bayesian Compressive Sensing for Site Characterization
1st Edition
By Yu Wang, Tengyuan Zhao, Yue Hu, Zheng Guan, Kok-Kwang Phoon
December 11, 2025
Site characterization is indispensable to good geotechnical or rock engineering practice as every site is unique, but technical, budget, time, or access constraints typically result in only a tiny fraction of the underground soil and rock in a site being visually inspected, sampled, or tested. This...
AI-Enhanced Safety Evaluation for Tunnelling in Rock: Principles, Methods and Algorithms
1st Edition
By Jiayao Chen, Hongwei Huang, Mingliang Zhou
December 02, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for rock tunnel construction offer innovative solutions for assessing rock mass quality and ensuring excavation safety in challenging geological conditions. Both cutting-edge contact methods and noncontact methods such as digital photography can provide ...
Uncertainty, Modeling, and Decision Making in Geotechnics
1st Edition
Edited
By Kok-Kwang Phoon, Takayuki Shuku, Jianye Ching
September 28, 2025
Uncertainty, Modeling, and Decision Making in Geotechnics shows how uncertainty quantification and numerical modeling can complement each other to enhance decision-making in geotechnical practice, filling a critical gap in guiding practitioners to address uncertainties directly. The book helps ...
Databases for Data-Centric Geotechnics: Geotechnical Structures
1st Edition
Edited
By Chong Tang, Kok-Kwang Phoon
December 20, 2024
Databases for Data-Centric Geotechnics forms a definitive reference and guide to databases in geotechnical and rock engineering, to enhance decision-making in geotechnical practice using data-driven methods. This second volume pertains to geotechnical structures. The opening chapter presents a ...
Databases for Data-Centric Geotechnics: Site Characterization
1st Edition
Edited
By Kok-Kwang Phoon, Chong Tang
December 20, 2024
Databases for Data-Centric Geotechnics forms a definitive reference and guide to databases in geotechnical and rock engineering, to enhance decision-making in geotechnical practice using data-driven methods. This first volume pertains to site characterization. The opening chapter presents an ...
Databases for Data-Centric Geotechnics: Two Volume Set
1st Edition
Edited
By Kok-Kwang Phoon, Chong Tang
December 20, 2024
Databases for Data-Centric Geotechnics forms a definitive reference and guide to databases in geotechnical and rock engineering, to enhance decision-making in geotechnical practice using data-driven methods. The first volume pertains to site characterization. The opening chapter presents a deep ...
Evolutionary Process of a Steep Rocky Reservoir Bank in a Dynamic Mechanical Environment
1st Edition
By Luqi Wang, Wengang Zhang
December 19, 2024
To prevent the collapse of dangerous rock masses on steep rocky reservoir banks which can cause casualties and property loss, it is essential to design and conduct practical experiments to quantify the evolution processes of the reservoir banks and control such dangerous rock masses. Using the ...
Model Uncertainties in Foundation Design
1st Edition
By Chong Tang, Kok-Kwang Phoon
September 30, 2022
Model Uncertainties in Foundation Design is unique in the compilation of the largest and the most diverse load test databases to date, covering many foundation types (shallow foundations, spudcans, driven piles, drilled shafts, rock sockets and helical piles) and a wide range of ground conditions (...