Description

This theme provides an advanced, integrated, and multidisciplinary framework for developing comprehensive geotechnical engineering research through the systematic combination of fundamental geomechanics, engineering geology, subsurface characterization, experimental investigation, computational modelling, probabilistic reliability analysis, artificial intelligence, digital technologies, and sustainable infrastructure development. It emphasizes the integration of complementary research methodologies to establish scientifically defensible relationships among geological conditions, physical mechanisms, material behaviour, numerical predictions, uncertainty assessment, engineering performance, and practical decision-making.