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Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Structural Modelling, Identification and Monitoring of Existing Structures—2nd Edition

edited by

Egidio Lofrano

and Paolo Di Re

submission deadline 17 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 213 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural health monitoring; dynamic identification; damage detection; inverse problem; machine learning in SHM; sensor network; optimal sensor placement; sensor technologies; remote monitoring; model updating

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Sustainable Preservation of Buildings and Infrastructure

edited by

Antonia Moropoulou

,

Evangelos J. Sapountzakis

,

Kyriakos Lampropoulos

and

Theodore E. Matikas

submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 10533 | Submission Open

Keywords: building materials; structural analyses; environmental impact on buildings and infrastructure; non-destructive evaluation of building materials and structures; preservation and protection of built cultural heritage; methodologies and strategies for the enhancement of the sustainability of built environment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)

Buildings for the 21st Century

edited by

Wahidul K. Biswas

and

Chithirai Pon Selvan

submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2651 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Numerical and Experimental Research on Steel-Concrete Composite Structural Systems

edited by Jizhi Zhao,

Muxuan Tao

and Liangdong Zhuang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2636 | Submission Open

Keywords: composite structures seismic performance; structural analysis; numerical simulation; machine learning; mechanical behavior; composite structural systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Life Cycle Management of Building and Infrastructure Projects

edited by

Pramen P. Shrestha

and

Kishor Shrestha

submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1551 | Submission Open

Keywords: procurement; contracting; and project delivery method; building information modelling; civil infrastructure modelling; building comfort; life cycle analysis; legal and disputes resolution

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Sustainable Building Thermal and Energy Management: Novel Materials and Advanced Cooling Strategies

edited by

Chi Yan Tso

and

Jianheng Chen

submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 974 | Submission Open

Keywords: building sustainability; building materials; cooling strategies; thermal management; energy efficiency; thermal insulation; passive cooling; renewable energy; indoor thermal comfort; environmental impact

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Assessment and Retrofitting of Existing Infrastructure—Second Edition

edited by

Hany El Naggar

submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 854 | Submission Open

Keywords: infrastructure; structural assessment; retrofitting; seismic performance; soil– structure interaction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Safety and Optimization of Building Structures—2nd Edition

edited by

Anatoly Alekseytsev

submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 693 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural optimization; mechanical safety; progressive collapse resistance; fire safety; life cycle; metaheuristic algorithms; risk prevention; sustainable development; reliability; optimal design

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Recently Advances in the Thermal Performance of Buildings

edited by Haiying Wang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 659 | Submission Open

Keywords: building envelop; lighting; heating; ventilating; and air-conditioning; energy use and energy saving; maintenance; building manage and control; indoor air quality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Advances in Concrete Technology for Sustainable Architecture

edited by Caitlin Mueller and Mohamed A. Ismail

submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 342 | Submission Open

Keywords: reinforced concrete; precast concrete; embodied carbon; concrete mix design; concrete reinforcement; structural efficiency; digital fabrication; material optimization; urban construction; infrastructure

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Seismic Assessment of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings

edited by

Omar AlShawa

, Stefania Degli Abbati and

Giacomo Destro Bisol

submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open

Keywords: masonry; seismic assessment; monumental buildings; aggregate buildings; modelling strategies; out-of-plane and/or in-plane response; nonlinear analyses; strengthening and retrofitting solutions; case studies; experimental tests

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Advanced Studies on Housing Energy Efficiency, Net Zero Developments and Real Estate Values

edited by

Maria Macchiaroli

,

Masoud Sajjadian

and

Junxue Zhang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open

Keywords: housing energy efficiency; real estate market; building energy performance; climate-sensitive architecture; healthy and ecological urban planning and design; sustainable city assessment; green and low-carbon building; healing urban landscape design; energy and ecological urban

(This special issue belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)

Smart Asset Management for Sustainable Built Environment

edited by Raj Shah and

Mohan Siriwardena

submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 59 | Submission Open

Keywords: asset management; digital twin (DT); BIM (building information modelling) and AI (artificial intelligence); sustainable materials; climate impact on physical assets; application of AI in assets; law and policy in digital assets; cyber security and IP of digital assets; resilience of existing infrastructure; energy performance and sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Influence of Environmental Vibration on Building Comfort

edited by Mehdi Setareh

submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 45 | Submission Open

Keywords: building vibrations; vibration serviceability; vibration evaluation/assessment; computer modeling; dynamic tests; structural vibrations

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Research on Performance of Pavement Concrete

edited by Mang Tia and Fazil Najafi

submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 32 | Submission Open

Keywords: pavement concrete; coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE); resilient modulus; concrete pavement performance; drying shrinkage; finite element modeling; durability; severe flooding; extreme heat; accelerated pavement testing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Ultra- and High-Performance Concrete—Experimental Behavior and Structural Computational Modelling and Design

edited by

Rami Eid

submission deadline 28 Dec 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 27088 | Submission Open

Keywords: High-performance concrete (HPC); High-strength concrete (HSC); Ultra-high-strength concrete (UHSC); Fiber-reinforced concrete (FRC); Seismic behavior; Ductility; Structural/mechanical properties; Impact resistance; Tall buildings; Long-term behavior

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Advanced Green and Intelligent Building Materials

edited by

Xianhua Yao

, Decai Wang, Ruicong Han,

Min Zhang

, Ying Hao and Lihua Niu

submission deadline 28 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 105 | Submission Open

Keywords: geopolymer; aerated concrete; green materials; asphalt-based materials; alkali-activated materials; modification method; microscopic analysis; simulation analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Structural Assessment of Timber Structures

edited by

Jorge Manuel Branco

,

Hélder Sousa

and Elisa Poletti

submission deadline 30 Dec 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 24701 | Submission Open

Keywords: Existing timber structures; Assessment; Codes and guidelines; Non-destructive testing; Repair and reinforcement; Monitoring; Case studies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

To Improve Urban Resilience: Cleaner Materials and Technologies towards Sustainable and Green Construction of Buildings

edited by

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,

and

submission deadline 30 Dec 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 22611 | Submission Open

Keywords: cleaner production; green construction; urban resilience; cleaner materials; sustainable technology; sustainable manufacturing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Strategic Planning and Control in Complex Project Management

edited by Wenxin Shen,

Wenzhe Tang

and Jin Xue

submission deadline 30 Dec 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9042 | Submission Open

Keywords: strategic management; project planning; project control; project management; program management; portfolio management; megaproject management; risk management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Energy Systems in Buildings

edited by

Alireza Afshari

submission deadline 30 Dec 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4624 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal energy storage; renewable energy; sustainable energy; energy services; energy sources

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Research on Industrialization and Intelligence in Building Structures

edited by

Pengcheng Li

and

Hao Wang

submission deadline 30 Dec 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3732 | Submission Open

Keywords: building structures; prefabricated strucutures; novel structural systems; novel structural materials; intelligent method; intelligent construction; structural optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Flexible Interaction between Buildings and Power Grid

edited by

Jide Niu

, Yakai Lu and Chuyao Wang

submission deadline 30 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 55 | Submission Open

Keywords: building– grid interaction; building flexibility definition; flexibility potential modeling and quantification; flexible operation and control method of building; building demand response mechanism; flexible building system design; renewable energy; building efficiency and indoor environment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Structural Mechanics Analysis of Soil-Structure Interaction

edited by Jianhua Dong, Wenhu Fan and

Pengfei He

submission deadline 30 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 31 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil– structure interface; constitutive model; measurement technology; stability of structure; multi-field; digital technology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Green Building Project Management

edited by

Xingwei Li

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 21007 | Submission Open

Keywords: big data application in green building projects; smart construction in green building projects; supply chain management in green building projects; risk management in green building projects; innovation management in green building projects; corporate social responsibility in green building projects; behavioral decision making in green building projects; material management in green construction projects; construction waste recycling; project management in green infrastructure

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Advances in Civil Engineering Materials: Design, Characterization, Corrosion and Durability

edited by

Sergio Lorenzi

and

Denny Coffetti

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 13638 | Submission Open

Keywords: Cementitious materials; corrosion; durability; innovative binders; eco-sustainability; building materials; life cycle cost assessment; materials design; concrete; mortars

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Cold-Formed Steel Structures

edited by

Krishanu Roy

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9017 | Submission Open

Keywords: High strength CFS structures; Stability of CFS beams and columns; Seismic response of CFS structures; FS portal frames; Web crippling of CFS sections; Fire and seismic performance of CFS framed shear walls; Hysteretic behaviour of CFS wall panels; Fire furnace tests on CFS members; Cold-formed stainless steel sections; CFS cladding systems; Sustainability of CFS structures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

High-Performance Steel–Concrete Composite/Hybrid Structures

edited by

Mu-Xuan Tao

and

Li-Yan Xu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8520 | Submission Open

Keywords: steel– concrete composite structures; high-resilience structural system; disaster resistance and mitigation; high-performance materials; performance evaluation; fabricated construction; numerical simulation; seismic design; life-cycle design; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems II

edited by

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,

,

and

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7572 | Submission Open

Keywords: building energy; building environment; building physics; building systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Low-Carbon and Green Materials in Construction—2nd Edition

edited by

Long Li

, Pujin Wang,

Jie Xiao

and Lingfei Liu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 10 articles | Viewed by 7498 | Submission Open

Keywords: low-carbon materials; recycled aggregate concrete; alkali-activated materials; 3D concrete printing; carbonation; ultra-high performance concrete; ECC; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Advances in Strategic Replanning and Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage

edited by

Cristina Coscia

, Carla Bartolozzi and Daniele Dabbene

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5171 | Submission Open

Keywords: assessment of the economic sustainability of the project in crisis contexts; reconstruction and circular economy; risk and responsibility; economic-financial feasibility and economic-social feasibility; decision support tools; memory value; cost– opportunity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)

Sustainable Rural Development: Advances on Rural Digitization and Smart Village Construction

edited by

Meimei Wang

, Zihan Cai and

Sidong Zhao

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4342 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable rural development; rural digitalization; digital and smart village; rural revitalization; rural planning; rurality evaluation; carbon neutrality; urban– rural integration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Constructions in Europe: Current Issues and Future Challenges

edited by

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,

and

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3127 | Submission Open

Keywords: civil engineering; environmental engineering; urban engineering; transport engineering; geotechnical engineering; construction economics; construction technology

Sustainable Architecture Regards to Global Challenges: Implementation and Evaluation

edited by

Łukasz Mazur

and

Anna Bać

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3110 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable architecture; circular economy; building materials; energy efficiency; decarbonization; timber engineering; indoor and urban comfort; post occupancy evaluation; education

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Future-Proofing Bio-Based Building Materials

edited by

Eshrar Latif

,

Sotirios A. Grammatikos

,

Florence Collet

and

Sylvie Prétot

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3054 | Submission Open

Keywords: bio-based structural materials; bio-based thermal envelope materials; bio-based thermal insulation materials; bio-based concrete; fire performance; long-term thermal performance; durability; biological durability; environmental durability; mould growth; emissions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Recent Advances in Structural Health Monitoring of Buildings and Infrastructures

edited by

Minshui Huang

and

Jianfeng Gu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2864 | Submission Open

Keywords: damage identification; inverse problems in structural engineering; deep learning in SHM; smartphone sensing; sensor network; optimal sensor placement and instrumentation design; environmental and operational factors in SHM; static load testing and vibration testing of structure; swarm intelligence algorithms; sustainable developments in SHM; other related topics in SHM

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Thermal Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Buildings

edited by

Jiying Liu

and

Jie Deng

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2715 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal fluid; fluid flow; heat transfer; conduction; convection; radiation; built environment; energy efficiency; sustainable building; ventilation; air distribution; thermal comfort; occupant well-being; HVAC; building retrofit; building envelope; thermal management; CFD; building simulation; case studies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Advanced Research on Construction Materials for Sustainable Built Environment

edited by

Jian-Guo Dai

and

Mehran Khan

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2491 | Submission Open

Keywords: concrete structures; FRP composites; high-performance/ultra-high-performance concrete; geopolymer concrete; surface protection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Advancing Life Cycle Assessment of Building Energy: Exploring Policy Contexts, Whole-Life Carbon Thinking, and Net-Zero Carbon Strategies

edited by

Jingchun Shen

and Jonn Are Myhren

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2322 | Submission Open

Keywords: regulatory and policy context; building service system; building energy; HVAC; renewable energy; sustainability; environmental impact; embodied carbon; carbon footprint; upfront carbon; operational carbon; whole Life carbon; carbon designer; circularity; sustainable procurement; sustainable finance; sustainable construction; carbon risk monitoring; digitalization; digital renovation; design for disassembly; climate change mitigation; climate change adaptation; product life-cycle management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Deep Learning Models in Buildings

edited by

Tae Wan Kim

and Jun Young Jang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1473 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart building technologies; building performance optimization; predictive maintenance in buildings; automated defect detection; construction data analysis; energy consumption optimization; AI-driven design decision-making; deep learning in construction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Advance in BIM-Based Technologies for Sustainable Building Performance Predictions

edited by

Woon Seong Jeong

and

Sang-Guk Yum

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1390 | Submission Open

Keywords: building design; construction processes; construction management; building information modeling (BIM); off-site construction; modular construction; design for manufacturing and assembly (DFMA); sustainable construction methods and technologies; digital twins in the construction industry; artificial intelligence in scheduling; simulation-based methods for construction scheduling and virtual construction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)

Applications of Computational Methods in Structural Engineering

edited by

Denise-Penelope N. Kontoni

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1256 | Submission Open

Keywords: civil engineering structures (R.C.; steel; composite; masonry); structures under loads (earthquakes; winds; fires; blasts; etc.); computational methods in structural analysis (FEM; BEM; etc.); soil– structure interaction (SSI); seismic isolation of structures; structural vibration control; special dampers; smart materials and structures; artificial intelligence in structural engineering; soft computing techniques in structural engineering

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Smart Building Materials and Designs for Sustainable Built Environment

edited by Kishor Zingre

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 915 | Submission Open

Keywords: building materials; heat transfer; low carbon; thermal comfort; built environment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Construction Materials: Performance Analysis and Assessment

edited by

Geo Paul

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 862 | Submission Open

Keywords: construction materials (cement and concrete); supplementary cementitious materials; reduced clinker factor; performance analysis; durability; structural assessment; sustainability; predictive modeling; material behavior; environmental impact

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Existing Environment, Equipment, Materials and Technical Means for Buildings

edited by

Xin Zhang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 855 | Submission Open

Keywords: indoor environment; buildings materials; buildings renovations; auxiliary equipment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Comfortable Environments: Materials for Room Acoustics and Noise Control

edited by Jesús Carbajo,

Pedro Poveda-Martínez

and

J. Ramis-Soriano

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 663 | Submission Open

Keywords: room acoustics; noise control; acoustic materials

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

The Damage and Fracture Analysis in Rocks and Concretes

edited by

Xiang Li

and

Kewei Liu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 620 | Submission Open

Keywords: concrete; damage; fracture; mining engineering; geotechnical engineering; numerical model; time-dependent fracturing; stress corrosion; high temperature

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Structures)

Performance Analysis and Design Optimization of Renewable Energy Heating Systems

edited by

Wanlong Cai

,

Chaofan Chen

, Jiewen Deng and Chao Zeng

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 597 | Submission Open

Keywords: renewable energy utilization; solar PV system; geothermal system; hydrogen system; hybrid energy system; long-term simulation; in situ monitoring; multi-object optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Research on Rate-Dependent Mechanical Properties of Ultra-High Strength Concrete

edited by Shaohua Li and Weitan Zhuang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 580 | Submission Open

Keywords: ultra-high performance concrete; dynamic properties; micromechanics; strain rate; mechanical performance; multi-scale

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

Research on the Performance of Traditional, New and Potential Building Materials: 2nd Edition

edited by

Yue-Ling Long

,

Zhenhao Zhang

, Ying Qin, Zhiliang Zuo and

JinJing Liao

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 432 | Submission Open

Keywords: traditional building materials (steel; concrete; masonry; timber; bamboo; etc.); composite materials and fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs); potential building materials (graphene; bio-inspired materials; etc.); ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC); 3D printing materials; concrete-filled steel tubes (CFSTs); static and dynamic performance; structural reliability; cross-section instability; numerical simulation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)

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