摘要
This special issue of Underground Space contains extended papers related to selected contributions at the International Conference on Computational Methods in Tunneling and Subsurface Engineering(EURO:TUN 2017).EURO:TUN 2017 was organized at the University of Innsbruck,Austria.It was the fourth conference of a series of successful ECCOMAS Thematic Conferences on Computational Methods in Tunneling,which started in 2007 in Vienna and continued in 2009 and 2013 in Bochum.