From Materials to Applications: High-Performance Steel Structures

Dear Colleagues,

Infrastructures can be designed, optimized, and constructed to withstand various lateral loads without experiencing a significant amount of concentrated damage. Having sufficient strength and stiffness to reduce the structural vulnerabilities against serious damages under various loading conditions requires structural elements to have adequate ductility, energy-dissipating capability, stiffness, and durability.

This Special Issue aims to investigate advancements in high-performance steel structures from materials to application, considering all the possible fields of study, which include the following: performance evaluations of steel structures, optimized steel systems, high-temperature reactions, innovative steel lateral resisting systems, high-strength steels, steel rebars, fatigue analysis methodologies, new generation of lateral resisting systems, natural hazard protective systems, additively manufactured steels, corrosion, application possibilities of new sustainable materials and methods, steel dampers, temporary structures, steel applications, steel–wood interactions, steel-concrete interactions, and advanced materials behavior compared with steel. These subjects can be studied from the following different points of view: mechanical, microstructural, material modeling, steel design, experimental and computational performance analysis, etc.

In summary, the present Special Issue is open to all research pieces involving steel as a structural material in any of its applications and from any of the possible technical or scientific perspectives.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Alireza Farzampour
Guest Editor

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• steel structures
• mechanical properties
• performance based design
• innovative steel structures
• steel lateral resisting systems
• steel joints, steel rebars, steel bridge, steel dampers
• steel metallurgy
• composite systems
• optimization of steel system
• fatigue, fracture, and seismic performance