Dear Colleagues,

The staggering development of buildings and infrastructures worldwide is coupled with their increased exposures to multiple hazards, including earthquakes, tsunamis, riverine flooding, hurricanes, strong winds, wildfires, landslides, ageing and deterioration, etc. Recent extreme events (e.g., the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and 2017 Hurricane Harvey) have also resulted in the multi-hazard vulnerability of civil infrastructure, causing not only physical damage but also cascading socioeconomic impacts on affected regions.

This Special Issue, “Multi-Hazard Risk and Resilience”, aims to bring together cutting-edge research advances in assessing, designing, and retrofitting individual structures or spatially distributed structural portfolios to protect them against independent, concurrent, or cascading hazards. The methodological framework for multi-hazard risk and resilience convolves probabilistic hazard analysis, structural exposure models, hazard vulnerability assessment, and subsequent risk and resilience quantification. Moreover, recent developments in statistical and machine learning can be leveraged to tackle related problems that are challenging or impossible to solve using traditional methods. Given this, this Special Issue welcomes original contributions containing fundamental research, case studies, opinion papers, or review articles on the following research topics:

• Probabilistic hazard analysis;
• Structural response simulation;
• Optimal hazard intensity measures;
• Probabilistic hazard demand and capacity models;
• Hazard fragility, risk, and resilience assessment;
• Lifecycle analysis under climate change;
• Performance-based design, retrofit, and rehabilitation;
• Statistical and machine learning;
• Infrastructure interdependencies;
• Community resilience.

Prof. Dr. Yazhou (Tim) Xie
Prof. Dr. You Dong
Prof. Dr. Changhai Zhai
Guest Editors

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• hazard analysis
• fragility model
• risk and resilience assessment
• lifecycle analysis
• climate change
• performance-based design
• statistical inference
• machine learning
• interdependency
• community resilience