本团队为地下建筑与工程系隧道及地下工程研究所隧道二室（简称隧道二室团队）。团队现有教授8人、副教授4人、高级实验人员1人，主要从事地下空间工程科学、技术和应用研究，始终坚持“地下数字化源于工程、高于工程、服务于工程”的研究理念，聚焦“地层—地下结构三维动态信息的时空效应”，深度融合数字技术与传统方法，开创了数字地下空间工程新方向，创建了地下三维动态信息表达与分析的理论和方法，研发了工程安全建造的实时动态调控技术、高效运维的建养一体定量综合评价技术，攻克了“建造参数难调、服役状态难判”的难题；构建了涵盖理论、技术、装备、标准和集成平台的数字地下空间工程支撑体系，在上海地铁枢纽站改扩建工程、虹桥机场下穿越工程、四川大峡谷公路隧道、贵州高速公路网隧道等重大工程中成功实践，极大地提高了工程安全、质量和效率，推动了地下空间工程建造和运维的数字化转型发展。团队先后承担了包括国家973计划、国家科技支撑计划和重点研发计划、国家自然科学基金重点项目和重大仪器专项等纵向科研项目及一大批工程攻关课题，获得国家科技进步二等奖2项，省部级和一级学会的科技成果特等奖3项、一等奖10项。

团队成员入选国家及上海市人才计划20余人次，包括：国家万人计划2人，国家杰出青年科学基金获得者1人，教育部长江讲席学者2人，国家青年拔尖人才1人，国家海外优青/高层次青年引进人才5人。此外，还获德国洪堡索菲亚-科瓦雷夫斯亚奖、德国莱布尼茨青年科学家奖等国际性人才计划。

• 已在国内外学术刊物、会议发表科研论文50余篇，其中以第一作者或者通讯作者共发表36篇SCI期刊论文、5篇ESI高被引论文。
• 近期代表性论文：
• [1].   Haohua Chen, Ingrid Tomac (2024) Feasibility of coaxial deep borehole heat exchangers in southern California, Geothermal Energy,12, 41.
• [2].   Haohua Chen, Hehua Zhu, Lianyang Zhang (2024) Semi‐analytical solution for ultimate bearing capacity of smooth and rough circular foundations on rock considering three‐dimensional strength. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics 48:1634–1653.
• [3].   Haohua Chen, Jianmin Hu Lianyang Zhang (2024) Three-Dimensional Analyses of Long-Term Settlement of Storage Tanks Supported by a Large Piled-Raft Foundation System. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 150(1): 05023007
• [4].   Haohua Chen, Ingrid Tomac (2023) Technical review on coaxial deep borehole heat exchanger, Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources, 9(1), 120.
• [5].   Haohua Chen, Arash Nikvar-Hassani*, Stefka Ormsby, Dan Ramey and Lianyang Zhang* (2023) Mechanical and microstructural investigations on the low-reactive copper mine tailing-based geopolymer activated by phosphoric acid. Construction and Building Materials 393: 132030. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2023.132030
• [6].   Haohua Chen, Hehua Zhu, and Lianyang Zhang* (2023) Rock Slope Stability Analysis Incorporating the Effects of Intermediate Principal Stress. Rock Mech Rock Eng. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-023-03277-4
• [7].   Haohua Chen, Hehua Zhu, and Lianyang Zhang* (2022) A three-dimensional (3D) analytical solution for the ultimate side shear resistance of rock-socketed shafts. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences 159: 105231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrmms.2022.105231
• [8].   Haohua Chen, Hehua Zhu, and Lianyang Zhang* (2022) Further modification of a generalised 3D Hoek–Brown criterion: the GZZ criterion. Géotechnique Letters 12(4): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1680/jgele.21.00117
• [9].   Haohua Chen, Hehua Zhu, and Lianyang Zhang* (2022) An analytical approach to the ultimate bearing capacity of smooth and rough strip foundations on rock mass considering three-dimensional (3D) strength. Computers and Geotechnics 149, 104865. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2022.104865
• [10].  Haohua Chen, Xiaolin Weng*, Lele Hou, Dean Sun (2022) Cylindrical cavity expansion responses in anisotropic unsaturated soils under plane stress condition. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrmge.2022.03.015
• [11].    Haohua Chen*, Ce Feng, Jingpei Li (2022) An anisotropically elastoplastic solution to excavation responses of a circular opening considering three-dimensional strength. Acta Geotechnica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-022-01448-1.
• [12].    Haohua Chen, Lin Li*, Jingpei Li, De’an Sun (2022) A Generic Analytical Elastic Solution for Excavation Responses of an Arbitrarily Shaped Deep Opening under Biaxial In Situ Stresses. Int J Geomech 22 (4), 04022023. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0002335
• [13].    Haohua Chen, Lianyang Zhang* (2022) A Machine Learning-Based Method for Predicting End-Bearing Capacity of Rock-Socketed Shafts. Rock Mech Rock Eng. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-021-02757-9
• [14].    Haohua Chen, Pin-Qiang Mo* (2022) An undrained expansion solution of cylindrical cavity in SANICLAY for K0-consolidated clays. J Rock Mech Geotech Eng. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrmge.2021.10.016
• [15].    Haohua Chen, Hehua Zhu, and Lianyang Zhang* (2021) A Three-Dimensional (3D) Semi-analytical Solution for the Ultimate End-Bearing Capacity of Rock-Socketed Shafts. Rock Mech Rock Eng. https://doi.org/10.1007/ s00603-021-02710-w
• [16].    Haohua Chen, Ce Feng*, Jingpei Li, De’an Sun (2021) Analysis of cylindrical cavity expansion in anisotropic overconsolidated clays using the Extended UH model. Computers and Geotechnics 134: 104114. https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.compgeo.2021.104114
• [17].    Haohua Chen, Changyi Yang*, Jingpei Li, De’an Sun (2021) A General Method to Incorporate Three-Dimensional Cross-Anisotropy to Failure Criterion of Geomaterial. International Journal of Geomechanics 21(12): 04021241. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0002224
• [18].    Haohua Chen, Lin Li*, Jingpei Li, De’an Sun (2021) A rigorous elastoplastic load-transfer model for axially loaded pile installed in saturated modified Cam-clay soils. Acta Geotechnica. https://doi.org/10.1007/ s11440-021-01248-z
• [19].    Haohua Chen, Hehua Zhu, and Lianyang Zhang* (2021) A unified constitutive model for rock based on newly modified GZZ criterion. Rock Mech Rock Eng 54: 921-935.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-020-02293-y
• [20].    Haohua Chen, Lin Li*, Jingpei Li, De’an Sun (2020) Elastoplastic Solution to Drained Expansion of a Cylindrical Cavity in Anisotropic Critical-State Soils. Journal of Engineering Mechanics 146(5): 04020036. https://doi.org/10.1061/ (ASCE)EM.1943-7889.0001763
• [21].    Haohua Chen, Hehua Zhu, and Lianyang Zhang* (2021) Analytical Solution for Deep Circular Tunnels in Rock with Consideration of Disturbed zone, 3D Strength and Large Strain. Rock Mech Rock Eng 54:1391–1410. https://doi.org/ 10.1007/s00603-020-02339-1
• [22].    Haohua Chen, Lin Li*, Jingpei Li (2019) Stress transform method to undrained and drained expansion of a cylindrical cavity in anisotropic modified cam-clay soils. Computers and Geotechnics 106: 128-142.
• [23].    Haohua Chen, Jingpei Li*, Lin Li (2018) Performance of a Zoned Excavation by Bottom-Up Technique in Shanghai Soft Soils. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenviromental Engineering 144(11): 43314505.
• [24].    Lin Li, Haohua Chen*, Jingpei Li, De’an Sun (2021) A semi-analytical solution to steady-state groundwater inflow into a circular tunnel considering anisotropic permeability. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology 116: 104115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tust.2021.104115.
• [25].    Lin Li, Haohua Chen*, Jingpei Li, De’an Sun (2021) An elastoplastic solution for cylindrical cavity expansion under constant water content conditions in anisotropic unsaturated soils. Computers and Geotechnics 139: 104323. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2021.104323