New Paradigms for Future-Oriented Safety and Resilience of Civil Engineering Structures and Infrastructure Systems

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite submissions of original research papers on the topic of New Paradigms for Future-Oriented Safety and Resilience of Civil Engineering Structures and Infrastructure Systems.

This Special Issue aims to explore how innovative design theories, advanced materials, and intelligent technologies can enhance the safety and resilience of civil engineering structures and infrastructure systems throughout their service life and during extreme natural disasters (such as earthquakes, typhoons, and floods). The main topics include:

1. Resilience Theory and Quantitative Assessment Systems:

Exploring and establishing quantifiable "resilience" assessment frameworks, such as quantifying the performance of structures or systems under disasters like earthquakes, wind, fire, and floods; analyzing existing designs and integrating resilience objectives.

2. Smart Materials, Recoverable Structures, and Adaptive Systems:

Focusing on material and technological innovations to endow engineering structures with "self-adaptive" capabilities, such as resisting strong winds or seismic actions based on real-time monitoring data analysis.

3. Resilience of Structures and Infrastructure Systems:

Studying the resilience of engineering structures and infrastructure systems, analyzing urban resilience, and proposing strategies for resilience enhancement.

4. Engineering Resilience Adaptation Strategies Under Climate Change:

Addressing long-term, non-stationary threats from climate change, such as the increased frequency of extreme weather events, melting permafrost, etc. For example, improving design parameters such as wind loads, snow loads, and flood levels based on climate prediction models, and exploring urban resilience to stormwater flooding.

5. Application of Digital Twins and Artificial Intelligence in Resilience Engineering:

Leveraging emerging digital technologies to achieve intelligent management of the entire process, from disaster prediction and emergency response to recovery and reconstruction.

Prof. Dr. Xu Wang
Dr. Yanru Wang
Dr. Lei Zhou
Dr. Yongguang Li
Guest Editors

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