Seismic Assessment and Retrofit of Steel Structures

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is open to all kinds of advances and novel applications related to modeling, design, assessment, and retrofit of steel structures in seismic areas. It aims to collect scientific papers of researchers of all over to world that strive to contribute to civil engineering for the safety of people and steel structures in seismic areas.

The main topics of this Special Issue are:

• New and existing buildings;
• Industrial buildings;
• Light-weight structures;
• Non-structural components;
• Codification for seismic design, assessment and retrofitting;
• Cyclic behaviour of members, joints and components;
• Existing and novel approaches for seismic assessment of structures;
• Numerical modelling of members or structures;
• Laboratory tests on components and systems;
• Advanced methods for retrofit;
• Loss assessment and risk analysis of existing structures.

Please consider that the above topics are not exhaustive of all aspects of civil engineering of steel structures in seismic areas. So, feel free to submit your contributions on any additional topic that could be relevant to the field of steel structures in seismic areas.

Prof. Dr. Pier Paolo Rossi
Prof. Dr. Melina Bosco
Guest Editors

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