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Disaster Prevention and Resilient Structures in Engineering Construction
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Disaster Prevention and Resilient Structures in Engineering Construction

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 383

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Dehong Wang

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School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Northeast Electric Power University, Jilin 132012, China
Interests: ultra-high-performance concrete; concrete durability; precast concrete structure; earthquake engineering; seismic design
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Dr. Wei Chang

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Guest Editor
School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
Interests: engineering construction and building technology; materials science; physics; computer science

Special Issue Information

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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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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Keywords

  • multi-hazard effects
  • extreme climate
  • safety and disaster prevention
  • structural resilience
  • extreme loads
  • seismic performance
  • foundation engineering
  • high-performance materials

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Experimental Study on Bending Performance of Prefabricated Retaining Wall
by Yidan Ma, Hengchen Du, Shicheng Nie, Kai Zhu, Han Liu and Dehong Wang
Buildings 2025, 15(13), 2169; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15132169 - 21 Jun 2025
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To address the engineering issues of difficult quality control, complex construction processes, and long construction periods in cast-in-place protective walls for manually excavated piles, a prefabricated protective wall structure is proposed. This study aims to investigate its mechanical properties and key influencing parameters [...] Read more.
To address the engineering issues of difficult quality control, complex construction processes, and long construction periods in cast-in-place protective walls for manually excavated piles, a prefabricated protective wall structure is proposed. This study aims to investigate its mechanical properties and key influencing parameters through experiments. Six groups of prefabricated wall segment specimens with different wall thicknesses (50 mm, 65 mm) and concrete strengths (C50 concrete, reactive powder concrete RPC) were designed, and two-point bending tests were conducted to systematically analyze their failure characteristics, crack development patterns, and strain distribution laws. The test results show that the peak vertical bending displacements at mid-span of the specimens are 11–18 mm (1.83–2.71% of the radius). The 65-mm-thick specimens exhibit 3–10% higher flexural strength than the 50-mm-thick ones, and reactive powder concrete (RPC) specimens of the same thickness show an 8.3% increase in strength compared to C50 concrete specimens. When the load reaches 80% of the ultimate load, abrupt changes in concrete strain occur at the mid-span and loading points, while the strain at the fixed end is only 15–20% of the mid-span strain. The prefabricated protective wall demonstrates superior deformation resistance, with vertical displacements (3–5% of the radius) significantly lower than those of cast-in-place walls. This research clarifies the influence of wall thickness and concrete strength on the mechanical properties of prefabricated protective walls, providing key mechanical parameters to support their engineering applications. Full article
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