Advances in Bridge Design and Structural Performance: 3rd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Bridge infrastructures are essential for safe, resilient, and sustainable transportation networks. Increasing traffic loads, long-term service, and extreme climate change lead to progressive performance degradation and sudden damage, accompanied by reduced reliability due to the coupled effects of fatigue, creep, shrinkage, and corrosion. Such deterioration and damage potentially cause the failure of critical load-bearing members and even progressive collapse, threatening public safety. In addition, performance and state assessment, service life prediction, and safety evaluation of degraded bridges under multi-hazard conditions (e.g., earthquakes, impacts, fires, and typhoons) remain critical research priorities. Accordingly, growing attention has been devoted to performance enhancement and life extension strategies, including advanced materials, innovative strengthening and retrofitting techniques, and vibration control technologies, to improve structural resilience, durability, and serviceability under complex loading conditions.

From 2022 to 2025, we successfully launched the first and second editions of this Special Issue, “Advances in Bridge Design and Structural Performance”, which gathered dozens of high-quality contributions from researchers across America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Building on the success of the first edition, the second edition in 2024 further expanded the scope to include performance enhancement and life extension based on advanced materials, new technologies, and vibration-controlled equipment, attracting continued attention from the international research community and resulting in impactful publications.

Following the achievements of the previous two editions, we are pleased to announce this new third edition. This will aim to further broaden the scope by integrating both performance assessment and performance enhancement, with a particular focus on durability improvement, innovative materials, and advanced control technologies.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Bridge design under long-term effects and accidental loads;
• Fatigue, creep, shrinkage, and corrosion mechanisms;
• Multi-factor coupling effects and multi-scale modeling;
• Time-dependent reliability and life-cycle performance assessment;
• Advanced materials for bridge engineering (e.g., UHPC, FRP, smart materials);
• Structural strengthening, rehabilitation, and retrofitting techniques;
• Vibration control and damping technologies (e.g., passive, semi-active, and active control systems);
• Structural health monitoring and intelligent assessment methods;
• Performance-based design and resilience-oriented approaches.

We warmly invite researchers and practitioners to contribute original research and review articles to this Special Issue, which we believe will provide valuable insights into both the fundamental understanding and practical advancement of bridge engineering.

Dr. Zhongxiang Liu
Prof. Dr. Tong Guo
Dr. Jun Yang
Guest Editors

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• bridge design
• structural performance
• durability
• fatigue damage
• corrosion
• creep and shrinkage
• multi-hazard loading
• reliability assessment
• structural health monitoring
• advanced materials
• structural strengthening
• vibration control
• life-cycle performance
• resilience
• intelligent assessment