Reliability and Risk Assessment of Building Structures
This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to present state-of-the-art research, methodologies, and applications of the evaluation of the performance and safety of building structures under natural and man-made hazards. Topics include uncertainty modeling and quantification; structural reliability, risk, and probabilistic performance analysis; sensitivity analysis; and risk-informed decision support systems. Contributions emphasizing novel dynamic analysis algorithms, surrogate modeling, dimensionality reduction, Bayesian schemes, and machine learning applications in the aforementioned topics are particularly encouraged. The Special Issue also welcomes studies on the impact of hazards such as earthquakes, windstorms, fires, and floods, as well as approaches to health monitoring and fault detection in the built environment. This platform will serve as a valuable resource for researchers, engineers, and policymakers dedicated to a deeper understanding of structural safety, probabilistic structural performance, and risks to building structures, and who seek to enhance advanced structural analysis, design innovation, and support safer and more sustainable infrastructure.
Dr. Bowei Li
Dr. Zhicheng Ouyang
Dr. Min Li
Prof. Dr. Gao Ma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- structural reliability
- risk assessment
- uncertainty quantification
- performance-based design
- probabilistic methods
- machine learning
- surrogate modeling
- risk-informed decision-making
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Published Papers
Buildings - ISSN 2075-5309