Advances Testing and Computation Methods for Disaster Mitigation of Engineering Structures—2nd Edition
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polymer-based building materials; structural engineering; steel structures; testing technique; earthquake engineering; artificial intelligence methoduction
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Interests: structural engineering; steel-concrete composite structures; earthquake engineering; wind engineering
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: structural engineering; steel-concrete composite structures; earthquake engineering; prefabricated construction
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: structural engineering; prefabricated building construction; steel–concrete composite structures; earthquake engineering; testing technique
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The safety of engineering structures under natural hazards (e.g., earthquake, wind, fire and tsunami) is a subject of great interest to researchers and is important for protecting human life and reducing economic losses. In the last few decades, with advancing knowledge and technology development on understanding and interpreting the mechanisms of natural hazards, new components, connections, devices, structural systems are proposed for mitigating damage to engineering structures, and new testing and computation methods are being developed for designing and analyzing such structures. Several relevant studies have already been published in the first volume of this Special Issue, which can be found at the following link: [https://www.mdpi.com/journal/buildings/special_issues/CO9FF76RZI].
This Special Issue is chiefly dedicated to current research on experimental, theoretical, and computational advanced methods for the mitigation of damage to engineering structures. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: analyzing and simulating natural hazards; the damage assessment of engineering structures under natural hazards; modeling and applications of new construction materials for structural engineering; design methodologies of newly developed structural components and systems; advanced testing and modelling technologies; maintenance, repair and retrofit of existing structures; vulnerability, risk and reliability assessment of engineering structures under earthquakes, winds, fires and tsunami; and advanced methods for the evaluation and design of resistant and resilient structural systems.
Dr. Liqiang Jiang
Dr. Fengqi Guo
Dr. Linli Duan
Dr. Yi Hu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- structural engineering
- natural hazard
- testing technique
- computation technique
- AI-aimed simulation
- construction material
- structural design method
- retrofit and repair
- vulnerability and risk
- damage assessment
- performance-based design
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