Applied Sciences

Current Technological, Methodological, and Organizational Research Trends in the Construction Industry, Third Edition

edited by

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5321 | Submission Open

Keywords: construction industry; automation and robotization of construction processes; technological and organizational solutions; controlling executive processes; investment process; occupational safety; risks and hazards; safety management; sustainable development; management in construction; diagnostic of building structures; construction waste management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Smart Grids and Batteries for Sustainable Power Energy System

edited by

Rajesh Karki

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5142 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart grids; battery storage; sustainable energy; renewable integration; energy efficiency; grid stability; system reliability; infrastructural and operational resilience; digital communication; automation in energy systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)

Machine Learning and Its Application for Anomaly Detection

edited by

Naeem Ayoub

and Amira Mouakher

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4746 | Submission Open

Keywords: anomaly detection; explainable AI (XAI); time-series analysis; generative AI; predictive maintenance; cybersecurity; industrial monitoring; healthcare analytics; real-time systems; federated learning; privacy-preserving machine learning; image anomaly detection; edge computing; cloud-based detection; outlier detection; adaptive detection systems and industrial IoTs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Machine Learning and AI Techniques for Intrusion Detection and Prevention

edited by Pierre Parrend

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4502 | Submission Open

Keywords: cybersecurity; detection; prevention; generative AI; supervised learning; unsupervised learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Occupational Well-Being: Enhancing Safety and Ergonomics in the Work Environment

edited by

Anna Dąbrowska

and

Małgorzata Okrasa

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4411 | Submission Open

Keywords: occupational safety and health; smart personal protective equipment; smart working environment; internet of things; cyber-physical system; Industry 4.0/Industry 5.0; wearables; smart materials; AR/MR/VR/XR

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Advanced Research in Structures and Rocks in Geotechnical Engineering: 2nd Edition

edited by

Roohollah Kalatehjari

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3794 | Submission Open

Keywords: geotechnical engineering; rock mechanics; soil mechanics; foundation engineering; slop stability; computational geotechnics; landslides

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Multidisciplinary Collaborative Design of Aircraft

edited by

Baigang Mi

and

Wei Huang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3758 | Submission Open

Keywords: multidisciplinary design; coupling optimization; intelligent design; inverse design; high fidelity; high efficiency

(This special issue belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)

Smart Materials and Multifunctional Mechanical Metamaterials

edited by Chengjun Zeng, Fei Pan and Xiaozhou Xin

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3699 | Submission Open

Keywords: stimuli-responsive materials; shape-memory polymers; bio-inspired composites; mechanical metamaterials; energy absorption; smart structures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)

Precision Measurement Technology

edited by

Mohammed A. Isa

,

Mingyu Liu

and Samanta Piano

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3617 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision measurement; metrology; measurement; measurement systems; optical measurement; coordinate measurement; surface measurement; accuracy; smart sensors; quality control; precision engineering

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)

In Situ and Laboratory Tests for Analysis and Application in Soil Mechanics

edited by

Antonio Cavallaro

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3545 | Submission Open

Keywords: in situ tests; laboratory tests; soil mechanics; calculation models; earthquake hazards; case studies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Trends and Prospects of Orthodontic Treatment, 2nd Edition

edited by

Jong-Moon Chae

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3497 | Submission Open

Keywords: orthodontics; clear aligners; TSADs; CBCT; three-dimensional tooth movement

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Dentistry and Oral Sciences)

Feature Review Papers in Mechanical Engineering, 2nd Edition

edited by

Alessandro Ruggiero

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3355 | Submission Open

Keywords: mechanical engineering; tribology; materials; manufacturing; mechatronics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)

Application and Development of New Materials and Intelligent Technologies in Civil Engineering Construction

edited by Ke Sheng,

Xin Liu

, Shengtao Zhou and Dongxing Wang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2967 | Submission Open

Keywords: civil engineering construction; new materials; intelligent technologies; sustainable construction; tunnel engineering; slope stabilization; intelligent monitoring systems; numerical simulation; green construction materials

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Soil Liquefaction in Geotechnical Engineering

edited by

Yu Zhao

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2758 | Submission Open

Keywords: liquefaction; earthquake; shear waves; seismic hazard; centrifuge modeling; liquefaction evaluation; numerical simulation; data mining; high overburden stress; geological age; porewater pressure; bender element test; static cone penetration test; standard penetration tests

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Biotechnology in Animals

edited by

Kristina Gvozdanović

,

Ivona Djurkin Kušec

and

Dubravko Škorput

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2350 | Submission Open

Keywords: biotechnology; livestock; genetic improvement of livestock; genetically modified animals; gene editing; comparative genomics and biodiversity; reproductive biotechnologies; disease resistance; therapeutic proteins

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Advances in Computer Vision and Digital Image Processing

edited by

Panayiotis Vlamos

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2230 | Submission Open

Keywords: computer vision; digital image processing; deep learning; object detection; image segmentation; generative AI; medical imaging; scene understanding; multimodal data fusion; embedded vision systems; human– computer interaction; real-time image analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Topical Advisory Panel Members' Collection Series: Waste Reuse, Recycling, and Recovery—2nd Edition

edited by

Davide Mombelli

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2118 | Submission Open

Keywords: circular economy; extractive metallurgy; metallurgical residues recovery; secondary raw materials; waste management; slag; dusts; sludges; skims; dross; cement and concrete; asphalt; exhaust salts

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

Nondestructive Testing and Metrology for Advanced Manufacturing

edited by

Anne Francoise Obaton

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2046 | Submission Open

Keywords: additive manufacturing (AM); powder bed fusion (PBF); directed energy deposition (DED); process monitoring; digital twins; nondestructive testing (NDT); metrology; artificial intelligence (AI); X-ray computed tomography (XCT); synchrotron; tomosynthesis; resonant ultrasound spectroscopy (RUS); swept sine; impulse excitation method (IEM); nonlinear RUS; phased array ultrasonic testing (PAUT); binder jetting (BJT)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Additive Manufacturing Technologies)

Advanced Geotechnical Engineering Technology and Application in Environmental Detection

edited by

Tingyao Wu

, Ling Ji and Yuqing Xia

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1932 | Submission Open

Keywords: geotechnical monitoring technology; environmental adaptability; environmental testing; tunnels; slopes; buildings; standards

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

New Insights into Astronomy and Astrophysics

edited by Chenhui Niu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1903 | Submission Open

Keywords: astronomical instument; astronomical technology; astrometry; telescopes; digital backends; analog signal system; numerical simulation; RFI; pulsar astronomy; galaxy astronomy; HI 21cm

(This special issue belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)

New Trends in Slope Stability

edited by

Hang Lin

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1795 | Submission Open

Keywords: slope stability; multi-field coupling; real-time monitoring; numerical modeling; case studies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Structural Design of Buildings and Civil Engineering Constructions

edited by Shuling Hu and Ruizhao Zhu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1754 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural design; civil engineering construction; smart technologies; resilient infrastructure; green building

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Advances in Autonomous Driving: Detection and Tracking

edited by

Jhonghyun An

and

Dimitri Konstantas

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1638 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous driving; end-to-end learning; object detection and multi-object tracking; sensor fusion; 3D perception; adverse weather robustness; deep learning for perception; real-time systems; domain adaptation; cross-modal learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)

5th Anniversary of 'Marine Science and Engineering' Section—Recent Advances in Marine Science

edited by

Marco F. L. Lemos

and

Celine Laroche

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1619 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine biotechnology; ocean sustainability; marine engineering; climate change and oceans; marine renewable energy; coastal resilience; aquaculture innovation; marine pollution and remediation; ocean monitoring and modeling; chemical and physical oceanography; sustainable marine resources; blue economy and marine technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Science and Engineering)

Electrochemistry and Corrosion of Materials

edited by

Rajib Kalsar

, Sridhar Niverty,

Vineet V. Joshi

and Lyndi Strange

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1594 | Submission Open

Keywords: electrochemistry and material degradation; long-term corrosion tests; multimodal corrosion measurements; microscopic electrochemistry: scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) and scanning electrochemical cell microscopy (SECCM); scanning Kelvin probe force microscopy (SKPFM); multiphysics modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)

Environmental Geotechnical Engineering and Geological Disasters

edited by

Xianghong Ding

, Huaxiang Yan,

Biao Luo

and

Wenle Hu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1507 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental geotechnical engineering; geological disasters; contaminated sites; slope stability; earthquake; sustainable geomaterials; eco-engineering

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)

Real-Time Detection in Additive Manufacturing

edited by Zhuo Yang and

Richard (Chunhui) Yang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1449 | Submission Open

Keywords: real-time monitoring; anormaly detection; in situ data; process control; sensors; modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Additive Manufacturing Technologies)

Design, Fabrication and Applications of Steel Structures

edited by Jie Wang and Fengjiang Qin

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1336 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced materials; structural design; fabrication technology; additive manufacturing; structural performance; sustainable construction; steel-concrete composite structures; digitalization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Mechanical Properties of Concrete: Advances, Applications and Challenges

edited by Linfei Li

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1334 | Submission Open

Keywords: mixed-design optimization; durability; sustainability; innovative testing methods; material characterization; field testing and applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0: 3rd Edition

edited by

Ahmad Barari

and

Marcos de Sales Guerra Tsuzuki

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1301 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart manufacturing; intelligent manufacturing; Industry 4.0; digital manufacturing; digital metrology; intelligent support systems; manufacturing process control; smart quality assurance; intelligent inspection; predictive and prescriptive maintenance; model-based prognostics; vision systems; collaborative robots; manufacturing health management; artificial intelligence for manufacturing processes; big data analytics; sensor information; digital twins; manufacturing virtualization and simulation; self-configuration and self-diagnosis; Internet of Things; self-optimization models; scheduling and sequencing; blockchain technology; resource efficiency; circular economy tracking; autonomy; autonomous vehicles; drones

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)

Recent Developments in Condition Assessment and Maintenance Strategies for Road Infrastructure Networks

edited by

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,

and

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1301 | Submission Open

Keywords: assessment of pavement condition in terms of quality and safety; development of and improvement in pavement management systems; short-term and long-term pavement performance monitoring and modeling; pavement management strategies at both project and network levels; rehabilitation and preservation techniques for pavements; novel materials and technologies for pavement preventive maintenance; pavement life cycle assessment; methods for enhancing pavement resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Advances in Phytochemicals: Extraction, Isolation, and Identification

edited by

Radu Ciprian Racovita

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1274 | Submission Open

Keywords: plant natural products; extraction methods; isolation and purification; structure elucidation; nuclear magnetic resonance; mass spectrometry; circular dichroism; X-ray crystallography; spectroscopy; chromatography

(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical and Molecular Sciences)

Latest Research on Geotechnical Engineering—2nd Edition

edited by Bangbiao Wu, Xia Bian and Yingchun Li

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1263 | Submission Open

Keywords: mechanical behavior of geomaterials; geotechnical challenges in urbanization; sustainable geotechnics; geomaterial– structure interaction; climate change and geotechnics; numerical and analytical modeling; risk assessment and management; geotechnical monitoring and instrumentation; advanced testing and characterization of geomaterials; energy geotechnics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Phytochemicals in Food By-Products: From Bioactive Compounds to Sustainable Utilization

edited by

Dasha Mihaylova

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1253 | Submission Open

Keywords: phytochemicals; food by-products; bioactive compounds; sustainable utilization; extraction techniques; health benefits

(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)

Risk Assessment for Hazards in Infrastructures

edited by

Kleopatra Petroutsatou

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1236 | Submission Open

Keywords: infrastructure vulnerabilities; resilience; multi-hazard risk assessment; response and recovery planning; inspection and monitoring; financial sustainability of infrastructures; life-cycle cost estimation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Smart Design and Advanced Manufacturing with Emphasis on Integrating Emerging Technologies and Production Process Sustainability: Second Edition

edited by

Kouroush Jenab

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1206 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart design; smart manufacturing; Industry 4.0; automation; robotics; process sustainability; integration of technologies; computational methods; artificial intelligence; 3D printing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)

Advanced Technologies and Applications of Microwave and Millimeter Wave

edited by

Atsushi Mase

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1093 | Submission Open

Keywords: microwave technology millimeter wave; technology telecommunications; defense systems; high-speed wireless networks; high-resolution imaging automotive radar; artificial intelligence; Internet of Things (IoT)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Physics General)

Chemical and Functional Properties of Food and Natural Products: 3rd Edition

edited by

Teresa Leszczyńska

,

Ewa Piątkowska

and

Joanna Kapusta-Duch

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 988 | Submission Open

Keywords: chemical properties of food; health properties of food; modern methods of functional food production; animal research; human studies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)

Emerging Concrete Technologies and Applications

edited by Ilinca Cornel and

Chiara Giosuè

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 961 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-performance concrete; sustainable and green concrete; smart concrete; monitoring and mathematical modeling of concrete structures; durable concrete solutions; circular economy in the construction of concrete structures; machine and deep learning in concrete technology and applications; prestressed concrete; post-tensioned concrete; fiber-reinforced concrete; precast; prefabricated; and pre-engineered concrete structures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Machine Learning in Medicine and Health: Data, Methods and Applications

edited by Grażyna Suchacka,

Ioana Boeraş

and

Ionela Maniu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 937 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; laboratory (bio)markers; risk factors/risk scores; classification; prediction; (disease) profiling; diagnosis; prognosis; artificial intelligence; medicine; bioinformatics; bibliometric

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

New Horizons in Structural Health Monitoring of Railway Infrastructure

edited by

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and

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 858 | Submission Open

Keywords: railway infrastructure; structural health monitoring; AI; monitoring technology; data mining; condition assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Recent Applications of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)

edited by Miroslaw Chmiel and Paris Kitsos

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 773 | Submission Open

Keywords: field-programmable gate arrays; digital systems; control systems; reconfigurable control systems; embedded systems; systems-on-a-chip; logic synthesis; hardware-implemented algorithms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)

Advancing Building Information Modeling Through Artificial Intelligence: Methods, Applications, and Challenges

edited by

Eric Forcael

and

Felipe Muñoz-La Rivera

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 770 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); building information modeling (BIM); machine learning; generative design; computer vision in construction; digital twins; smart construction; automation in AEC; predictive maintenance; data-driven design

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Enhancing the Thermal Properties of Lightweight Composite Materials

edited by

Baosheng Xu

and Ning Zhou

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 745 | Submission Open

Keywords: lightweight composite materials; thermal insulation; thermal conductivity; thermal management; collaborative optimization

Smart Manufacturing and Materials: 3rd Edition

edited by

Marek Placzek

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 687 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart technology; smart materials; simulation; modeling; analysis; testing; big data; autonomous robots; system integration; industrial IoT; cybersecurity; cloud computing; additive manufacturing; reverse engineering; virtual and augmented reality; artificial intelligence; piezoelectric transducers; electrostatic materials; magnetostrictive materials; shape memory materials; variable viscosity liquids; thermoelectric materials; light-emitting materials

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)

Fuzzy Optimization Method and Application

edited by

Konstantina Chrysafiadi

and

Evangelos Sakkopoulos

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 589 | Submission Open

Keywords: fuzzy logic; optimization; uncertainty; fuzzy programming; fuzzy decision-making; hybrid optimization techniques; uncertainty modeling; fuzzy systems

Morphing-Enabling Technologies for Aerospace Systems: 2nd Edition

edited by

Ignazio Dimino

and

Maria Chiara Noviello

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 585 | Submission Open

Keywords: morphing aeroshells; space mechanisms; re-entry vehicles; mechanically deployable systems; inflatable systems; adaptive shape-changing mechanisms; design methodologies and optimization; rigid-body mechanisms for aerospace; compliant mechanisms for aerospace; multibody simulations; mechanism design and optimization; safety and reliability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)

Cloud Computing: New Network Technology and Information Security

edited by

Madhuri Siddula

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 467 | Submission Open

Keywords: cloud computing; security models; networks; information security

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging: Driving Precision in Diagnosis

edited by

Jacopo Secco

, Fernando Corinto and

Giorgia Marullo

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 461 | Submission Open

Keywords: artiﬁcial intelligence; medical imaging; deep learning; diagnostic accuracy; image analysis; clinical integration; healthcare innovation; digital Diagnostics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Human–Robot Deep Learning and Interaction on Edge AI

edited by

Yi-Zeng Hsieh

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 446 | Submission Open

Keywords: edge AI; human-robot; deep learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

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