Achieving Resilience and Other Challenges in Earthquake Engineering
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2024) | Viewed by 10584
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Masonry; Existing buildings; Nonlinear analysis; Historical buildings; Masonry arch bridges; Cracked structures; Vibrations
Interests: seismic retrofit; seismic structure; uncertian structures
Interests: computational mechanics; structural dynamics; wave propagation; stochastic finite element method
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will include recent trends and challenges in the field of seismic structure engineering. Approximately 20,000 people are killed every year by this natural phenomenon and the average annual economic loss is around USD 100 billion worldwide. Consequently, enhancing knowledge in the field of seismic structural engineering is a priority in order to increase the resilience of our society against earthquakes.
New research studies able to provide advances in seismic structure engineering are welcomed. The main topics covered by the Special Issue are the numerical modelling of structures subjected to earthquake loadings, experimental studies on the response of structures and on innovative strengthening techniques, new design approaches and seismic protection strategies, cultural heritage site preservation, structural health monitoring, and risk analysis under seismic hazards. Applications to both existing and new structures are welcomed, considering a wide variety of structural typologies (buildings and infrastructures) and materials (reinforced concrete, steel, masonry, timber).
This new Special Issue—hosted by the scientific journal Buildings—will garner excellent contributions and high-impact research in the field of seismic risk reduction and will show how novel materials/devices and effective design approaches may improve the final seismic performance of structures.
Dr. Francesco Cannizzaro
Prof. Dr. Nicola Impollonia
Dr. Teresa Lombardo
Dr. Alessandro Palmeri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- earthquake engineering
- numerical modelling
- structural health monitoring
- experimental test
- seismic retrofitting
- reinforced concrete structures
- masonry structures
- steel structures
- timber structures
- seismic protection devices
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