Risk and Resilience Assessment and Decision-Making for Building Structures

Dear Colleagues,

Extreme events pose increasing threats to the built environment, impacting structural integrity, socioeconomic stability, and long-term recovery. This Special Issue, titled “Risk and Resilience Assessment and Decision-Making for Building Structures”, addresses such challenges through integrated, performance-based frameworks that assess and mitigate risk, as well as promote resilience for building structures against extreme events.

We invite contributions advancing risk and resilience assessment and decision-making, performance-based engineering, and recovery analysis. Key themes include vulnerability modeling, risk and resilience enhancements, retrofit optimization, uncertainty quantification in risk and resilience, and community-scale resilience assessment.

By bridging engineering rigor with socioeconomic and environmental objectives, this Special Issue will deliver actionable tools for stakeholders including engineers, planners, and policymakers to design safer, more resilient, and risk-tolerant buildings under extreme events. Original research, reviews, and practical implementations are welcome for shaping the next generation of risk-informed structural decision-makers.

Dr. Ghazanfar Anwar
Dr. Hongyuan Guo
Dr. Wanting (Lisa) Wang
Guest Editors

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