Disaster Prevention and Resilient Structures in Engineering Construction

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, frequent natural disasters and accidental hazards worldwide have posed serious challenges to modern engineering construction. Throughout their entire life cycle, engineering structures such as high-rise buildings, residential clusters, and transmission tower line systems are exposed to individual or concurrent environmental threats, including earthquakes, strong winds, and rainfall. In this context, the development of infrastructure disaster prevention technologies with multi-hazard resistance capabilities and the establishment of resilient structural systems with rapid post-disaster recovery are critical to addressing the multiple disaster risks posed by climate change. These advancements hold significant implications for structural disaster prevention and mitigation as well as risk and crisis management.

This Special Issue focuses on disaster prevention and resilient structures in engineering construction, emphasizing, but not limited to, the following research directions: multi-hazard effects on engineering structures, safety and disaster prevention in power infrastructure, and structural resilience. We cordially welcome submissions on theoretical innovations, numerical simulations, experimental studies, and engineering applications that advance academic progress in structural engineering.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions that you may have about this Special Issue.

Dr. Dehong Wang
Dr. Wei Chang
Guest Editors

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