Fire Evolution, Protection, and Post-Disaster Disposal of Engineering Structures

Dear Colleagues,

The fire safety of engineering structures and critical infrastructure has become an increasingly important issue under complex, extreme, and realistic fire scenarios. This Special Issue provides a platform for recent advances in fire evolution, structural fire protection, performance-based fire engineering, and post-disaster assessment and rehabilitation. Particular attention will be given to, but not limited to, the fire safety of buildings, bridges, tunnels, transportation infrastructure, and other major engineering systems exposed to severe fire hazards. Contributions addressing experimental investigations, numerical simulations, theoretical models, monitoring technologies, risk assessment methods, and practical engineering applications are particularly welcome. This Special Issue also aims to promote interdisciplinary research that supports safer, more resilient, and more sustainable engineering structures throughout their life cycle. 

This Special Issue aims to explore the fire-induced behaviour, protection strategies, safety design, and post-disaster recovery of engineering structures, with the goal of providing theoretical foundations and technical support for future developments in structural fire safety and resilient infrastructure. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, structural response under fire exposure, fire resistance assessment, fire protection materials and systems, damage evaluation, repair and strengthening methods, and resilience-oriented design approaches. By bringing together studies from different engineering fields, this Special Issue seeks to advance practical solutions for reducing fire risks and improving the post-fire performance and recovery capacity of critical infrastructure.

 Suggested themes and article types for submissions:

• Performance-Based Structural Fire Engineering under Real Fire Scenarios;
• Advanced Fire-Resistant Materials and Protection Technologies for Critical Infrastructure;
• Fire Dynamics, Smoke Control, and Emergency Evacuation in Complex and Confined Environments
• Fire Risk Assessment and Mitigation in Complex and Extreme Scenarios for Bridges, Tunnels, and other Major Infrastructure;
• Post-Fire Assessment, Rehabilitation, and Resilience of Structures and Transportation Infrastructure;
• Smart Monitoring, Detection, and Intelligent Fire Protection Systems.

Prof. Dr. Wei Chen
Prof. Dr. Yi Luo
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Fire is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• structural fire engineering
• fire evolution
• fire protection
• performance-based fire design
• fire-resistant materials
• critical infrastructure
• fire risk assessment
• post-fire rehabilitation and resilience.