Advances in Earthquake Engineering and Seismic Resilience
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 421
Special Issue Editor
Interests: development of negative stiffness-based seismic base absorbers; development of stiff vertical vibration absorption configurations; optimal design of vibration control systems with multi-objective optimization algorithms; sensitivity analysis and robust optimization; investigation of soil–structure interaction and non-linear effects; analysis of onshore and offshore wind turbine towers with finite element models accounting fluid–structure interaction; experimental validation of negative stiffness-based base isolation systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Earthquake engineering and seismic resilience focus on enhancing the ability of buildings and infrastructure to withstand and recover from seismic events, ensuring their critical social and economic functions. Modern structures must be designed with high resilience to earthquakes, reflecting a city’s overall disaster preparedness. Pre-earthquake resilience assessments play a crucial role in emergency planning and retrofitting strategies, emphasizing the need for resilience beyond conventional design codes. Seismic resilience, the ability to absorb, adapt to, and recover from earthquake-induced damage without catastrophic failure, is essential in structural design, maintenance, and post-event recovery. While mitigating structural damage under seismic conditions remains a challenge, advancements in materials, engineering methodologies, performance-based design, and computational tools offer promising solutions.
This Special Issue highlights recent progress in earthquake engineering and seismic resilience. We invite contributions on innovative engineering techniques, performance-based seismic design, and advanced structural solutions for earthquake-resistant infrastructure. This collection aims to engage academics, engineers, and industry professionals in the fields of construction and disaster mitigation. We encourage submissions of original research, reviews, and case studies addressing seismic resilience in both new and existing structures.
Topics of interest include the following:
- Advanced composite materials for retrofitting;
- Seismic load analysis of construction materials;
- Damage detection and condition assessment;
- Damage limitation design and sustainability;
- Innovative seismic-resilient structural design;
- Systems for damage minimization and recovery post-earthquake;
- Integrated seismic retrofitting and strengthening techniques;
- Novel resilient structural systems;
- Performance-based seismic design;
- Seismic hazard and risk mitigation;
- Multi-level seismic performance of critical infrastructure;
- Seismic resilience assessment;
- Seismic safety and retrofit of existing structures;
- Seismic vulnerability assessment;
- Structural health monitoring.
- Innovative vibration control devices (e.g., tuned mass dampers, negative stiffness devices, inerters, KDampers)
Dr. Konstantinos A. Kapasakalis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- seismic retrofitting
- seismic-resilient design
- performance-based design
- risk mitigation
- structural health monitoring
- vibration control
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