Advances in Steel Structures: Testing, Modelling and Design

Dear Colleagues,

Steel has the equivalent strength of traditional construction material that is three times its weight. Owing to its superior strength-to-weight ratio, steel allows for designing lightweight structural components and is thus increasingly used in construction. The use of structural steel in construction can also reduce the impact of building activities on the environment since it is a recyclable material, presenting a smaller carbon footprint throughout its lifecycle. Moreover, steel can also be prefabricated with highly accurate automation machineries or facilities, enabling improved productivity and quality control.

This Special Issue in the journal Buildings, entitled ‘Advances in Steel Structures: Testing, Modelling and Design’, aims to present the state-of-the-art advances in steel-related topics in structural engineering. The guest editors warmly invite submissions concerning experimental, numerical and theoretical investigations on steel structures in building sciences. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• High-strength steel, stainless steel and aluminum alloy structures;
• Hybrid structures with mixed use of different materials;
• Regular and irregular cross-sections;
• Built-up section members;
• Steel–concrete composite structures;
• Steel joints and connections;
• 3D printing;
• Machine-learning-based design;
• Extreme loading conditions, e.g., fire, impact, etc.

Dr. Lulu Zhang
Prof. Dr. Peijun Wang
Dr. Zhe Xing
Dr. Boshan Chen
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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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.

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