Advanced Technologies for Construction and Maintenance of Engineering Structures
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 115
Special Issue Editors
Interests: steel bridges; intelligent construction; intelligent maintenance; fatigue performance improvement
Interests: steel–concrete composite structure; carbon-reinforced concrete composite structure; high-performance materials; seismic resistance
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Interests: fatigue strengthening; shape memory alloy; fatigue damage evaluation; fatigue life prediction; FRP composites
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advanced technologies are revolutionizing the lifecycle management of engineering structures, driving unprecedented gains in efficiency, safety, durability, and sustainability. This Special Issue will focus on the transformative role of cutting-edge innovations—including robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), computer vision, the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G connectivity, advanced sensors, building information modeling (BIM), digital twins, drones, and computational methods—in automating and enhancing both the construction and maintenance of civil infrastructure.
We welcome submissions on the following topics:
- Robotics and automation;
- AI/ML and data analytics;
- Smart sensing;
- Digital twins and BIM;
- Advanced computational methods;
- Remote inspection and monitoring;
- Intelligent construction systems;
- Data-driven methods;
- Resilience and sustainability.
Prof. Dr. Zhongqiu Fu
Prof. Dr. Fangwen Wu
Dr. Qiudong Wang
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- intelligent construction
- intelligent maintenance
- experimental techniques
- modeling methods
- machine learning
- engineering structures
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