Applications of Computational Methods in Structural Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to invite you to submit cutting-edge original research articles and high-quality review papers for this Special Issue on “Applications of Computational Methods in Structural Engineering”.

The objective of this Special Issue is to bring together the most recent research trends and advances in Computational Methods in Structural Engineering to support the needs of professionals and researchers engaged in civil structures under a variety of external actions such as earthquakes, winds, vibrations, extreme loads, and fires.

This Special Issue can serve as a source of high-impact publications for the global community of researchers in the traditional, as well as emerging, subdisciplines of structural engineering.

Contributions to the following topics are welcome (but are not limited to this list):

• Civil engineering structures (buildings, bridges, offshore platforms, etc.)
• Effects of dynamic loads on structures (earthquakes, winds, vibrations, blasts, extreme loads, etc.)
• Fire effects on structures
• Reinforced concrete structures
• Steel structures
• Composite structures
• Masonry structures
• High-rise structures
• Computer-aided static and dynamic analysis of structures
• Computational methods in structural analysis (FEM, BEM, etc.)
• Finite element analysis
• Boundary element analysis
• Structural optimization
• Structural dynamics and earthquake engineering
• Seismic response of structures
• Performance-based structural engineering
• Soil–structure interaction (SSI)
• Seismic isolation of structures
• Structural vibration control
• Special dampers
• Assessment, repair and strengthening of structures
• Structural health and seismic structural monitoring
• Smart materials and structures
• Artificial intelligence in structural engineering
• Soft computing techniques in structural engineering

Dr. Denise-Penelope N. Kontoni
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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• civil engineering structures (R.C., steel, composite, masonry)
• structures under loads (earthquakes, winds, fires, blasts, etc.)
• computational methods in structural analysis (FEM, BEM, etc.)
• soil–structure interaction (SSI)
• seismic isolation of structures
• structural vibration control
• special dampers
• smart materials and structures
• artificial intelligence in structural engineering
• soft computing techniques in structural engineering