Vibration Monitoring and Control of the Built Environment

Dear Colleagues,

Vibration monitoring and control of the built environment is crucial to guarantee the specified vibration comfort in buildings and footbridges due to wind, traffic and pedestrian excitations, the structural safety of buildings and bridges during seismic events, and the envisaged lifetime of the built environment in order to decelerate further global warming. To reach these goals, the further development of intelligent sensor networks and anti-vibration devices such as tuned mass dampers, fluid viscous dampers, hysteretic steel dampers, elastomeric dampers, shock transmission units, base isolators, expansion joints and combinations of these devices is needed. This Special Issue, which will be published in the Applied Sciences and Buildings journals, aims to collect research exploring the recent advances in these fields of research and development. This Special Issue therefore addresses the following topics (though this list is not exhaustive):

• Intelligent monitoring and analysis of structural vibrations.
• Further developed passive, semi-active, active and adaptive tuned mass dampers, hydraulic dampers, isolators, bearings and expansion joints.
• Latest developments in vibration, earthquake, wind and noise engineering.
• Latest developments in the developments of new materials needed in for structural dampers, isolators, bearings and joints.
• Multi-physics modelling of civil engineering structures, including the modelling of the environmental conditions such as wind (CFD), climate, earthquake, soil–structure interaction, etc.
• Probabilistic and risk-based modelling and control of the built environment (buildings, bridges, streets, chimneys, flag poles, etc.).

Submissions in the form of both original research and review articles are welcome. Contributions with experimentally validated models and methods are highly appreciated.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Applied Sciences. 

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Felix Weber
Guest Editor

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• damper
• earthquake engineering
• friction damping
• hysteretic damping
• isolator
• monitoring
• negative stiffness
• soil structure interaction
• structural control
• structural dynamics
• tuned mass damper
• vibration absorber
• wind engineering