Recent Advances in Static and Seismic Behavior of Masonry Structures
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2026 | Viewed by 274
Special Issue Editors
Interests: engineering materials; structural analysis; finite element analysis; structural dynamics; earthquake engineering; seismic engineering; seismic isolation and energy dissipation; reliability
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Interests: numerical analysis; construction materials; structural analysis; construction engineering; earthquake engineering; finite element analysis; finite element modeling; civil engineering materials
Interests: seismic vulnerability and risk assessment of urban habitats; seismic and structural behavior of steel and aluminum structures and connections; seismic analysis of historical and cultural heritage buildings; seismic retrofitting systems based on steelwork techniques; structural robustness and multi-hazard analysis; sustainable building products and life cycle assessment of building structures
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Interests: engineering materials; structural analysis; finite element analysis; structural dynamics; earthquake engineering; seismic engineering; seismic isolation and energy dissipation; reliability
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Masonry buildings represents a conspicuos part of our built heritage. Although they were mostly designed and built in absence of adequate standards, they are in service today, often hosting also strategic activies in very crowded spaces. Furthermore, in many cases, they have also historical and artistic value to be preserved.
Evidences from from recent collapses of in-service buildings and seismic events, along with numerical and experimental investigations, highlight that masonry buildings commonly exhibit significant vulnerability, not only with respect to the seismic actions, but also with respect to the vertical service loads associated to a normal functioning of these structures.
For this reason, the scientific community currently is paying considerable attention to proposing and validating methods for investigating and assessing the response of these buildings that, as known, is dependent on many factors, such as: geometry, material properties, floor stiffness, and constructive details. Also, as aligned with recent trends, probabilistic frameworks are increasingly considered, including both epistemic and record-to-record uncertainties within the numerical simulations.
This Special Issue aims to collect contributions on recent advances in the static and seismic behavior of masonry buildings, fostering discussion on theoretical, methodological and practical applications on masonry buildings—for either those existing or new ones. A broad range of papers is welcome, including theoretical studies, experimental investigations, and review papers related, among the others, to the following issues:
- numerical simulations
- survey techniques and graphic restitution
- structural diagnosis
- structural monitoring
- experimental investigations
- multi-scale analysis
- seismic assessment
- seismic risk
- structural reliability
- repairing and retrofitting interventions
Dr. Michele D’Amato
Dr. Silvia Caprili
Dr. Antonio Formisano
Dr. Rosario Gigliotti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- masonry buildings
- numerical models
- seismic behavior
- static loads
- structural monitoring
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