Multi-Hazard Resilience for Sustainable Building Structure
A Special Issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309) belonging to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2026 | Viewed by 1335
Editor
2. School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
Interests: structural vibration energy harvesting; seismic response mitigation; urban seismic resilience; real-time hybrid simulation; next-generation damping devices
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Buildings and infrastructure increasingly face compound and cascading hazards—earthquakes followed by aftershocks, extreme wind and rainfall, heatwaves, flooding, and secondary disruptions such as power outages, communication loss, and constrained mobility. Under these conditions, resilience is not only about preventing collapse, but also about maintaining functionality, enabling rapid damage understanding, and supporting low-carbon recovery and adaptation. This Special Issue “Multi-Hazard Resilience for Sustainable Building Structure” aims to bring together advances that connect fundamental mechanics, sensing and data, and practical decision support for the built environment.
We welcome contributions across the full lifecycle of resilient and sustainable building structures: multi-hazard performance-based design; innovative damping, isolation, and adaptive systems; robust structural health monitoring and self-powered sensing; rapid post-event assessment and uncertainty-aware damage estimation; multi-source data fusion using remote sensing, UAV imagery, IoT, and mobility data; and digital twin platforms that integrate simulations with streaming observations. Studies may address buildings, lifelines, and critical facilities, and may span numerical modeling, laboratory and full-scale testing, field deployment, and implementation in codes or operational workflows. By integrating engineering innovation with actionable analytics, this Special Issue seeks to accelerate deployable solutions that enhance safety, shorten recovery time, and reduce environmental impacts in a changing hazard landscape.
Dr. Wei Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- multi-hazard resilience
- sustainable structures
- performance-based design
- seismic isolation and damping
- structural health monitoring
- post-event damage assessment
- multi-sensing data fusion
- digital twins
- uncertainty quantification
- low-carbon recovery
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