Next-Generation Intelligent and Resilient Structures

Dear Colleagues,

The notion of “smart structure” integrates promises of disaster resilience, generally incorporating the capacities for civil structures to anticipate, react, respond, and reorganize after being subjected to natural and human-made disturbances. Dealing with this, the emerging artificial intelligence (AI) and the state-of-the-art industrial technology (covering vibration control and structural health monitoring) are heralded as integrated means for enhancing resilience. With the rapid development of AI-enabled civil engineering, it appears that timely assessment, prediction, and improvement of urban resilience can be realized. Despite the critical progress, it remains challenging to promote research advances in theory, experiments, framework, and, above all, applications that are helpful to improve the safety of metropolitan areas by mitigating socio-economic losses in case of extreme disasters.

This Special Issue on “Next-Generation Intelligent and Resilient Structures” aims to bring together cutting-edge development in emerging AI technologies for resilient civil infrastructural systems. Further, recent developments in novel structural health monitoring, vibration control, and construction are of interest. This Special Issue welcomes original contributions containing fundamental research, case studies, opinion papers, and review articles. The desired topics include but are not limited to the following:

• AI in civil infrastructural systems;
• Emerging vibration control and isolation;
• Efficient design methods for optimal structural control;
• Seismic vulnerability assessment;
• Resilience upgrading technologies;
• AI-based structural health monitoring;
• Mechanical metamaterial.

Dr. Zhipeng Zhao
Dr. Dario De Domenico
Dr. Haoran Zuo
Dr. Xiuyan Hu
Guest Editors

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