Advanced Analysis and Design for Steel Structure Stability

Dear Colleagues,

Steel structures have been widely used in buildings and infrastructures due to their superior performance in providing high strength, and ductile and sustainable load resisting systems. Stability is an essential requirement for all structures, especially steel structures. The stability analysis and design of structures are crucial as stability failures can lead to catastrophes such as structural collapses.

Over the past decades, extensive investigations have focused on structural stability, with many efforts on improving methods for analyzing buckling behavior, post-buckling behavior and the sensitivity of buckling to structural imperfections, and in turning these excellent research studies into design rules and specifications, including applying second-order analyses or P-Δ analyses for the stability analysis of tall slender buildings and slender building components. However, there are no definite solutions to these problems. In addition, the increasing utilization or material optimization of steel in the design of structures has resulted in relatively slender members and systems, where stability becomes a primary design consideration.

Therefore, the future of stability analysis and design for steel structures is very exciting. Among recent developments, improving and developing more accurate and reliable methods for analyzing and designing slender structures highly sensitive to buckling or integrating advanced analysis and design are going to play an important role in practice. 

This Special Issue of Buildings is intended for a wide and interdisciplinary audience, covering recent research advances and new developments, including the above-mentioned challenges in the following areas:

• Research Methods: Theoretical, experimental and numerical studies, including optimization, or design codification-oriented studies.
• Members or Structures: beams, columns, beam–columns, frames, joints and connections, steel composite structures, steel bridges, etc.
• Materials: hot-formed steel or cold-formed steel.
• Loads: static or dynamic, extreme loads such as wind load or earthquake load.

The Guest Editors hope that this Special Issue provides an overview of the current research activities contributing to the stability analysis and design of steel structures. Papers selected for this Special Issue will be subject to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of a rapid and wide dissemination of research developments and applications.

Dr. Van Bac Nguyen
Dr. Cao Hung Pham
Guest Editors

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