Seismic Engineering in Infrastructures: Challenges and Prospects

Dear Colleagues,

Civil communities are particularly vulnerable to earthquakes; thus, the assessment of their resilience is extremely important for decision-making sciences. Seismic resilience may be described as the ability to maintain the functionality of infrastructures to deliver services during and after seismic events. In this regard, many stakeholders may take advantages of such concept to consider the investments on infrastructures on their components, and subcomponents subjected to earthquakes. Resilience may be described two base principles: 1. prevention, and 2. learning from the present for future events. In this regard, it may be considered as the adaptability of a system or a community to external events, and many contributions must be considered together: social dimension of resilience, the importance of learning from the past, the community exposure, the possibility of change, the need to define some levels of performance and the importance of future protection actions. Moving from this background, this Special Issue aims to make a state-of-the-art update on the most credited approaches with a specific focus on seismic resilience. The studies related to seismic resilience analyses will be considered to expand the field on novel and developed case studies. Although few studies have been conducted on the seismic resilience of infrastructures, the recent destructions caused by the earthquake imply that distinct resilience analyses are needed in different regions and infrastructure systems. Thus, this Special Issue aims to bring together diverse stakeholders such as researchers, designers, infrastructure owners and planners to a common platform and create a fruitful forum to exchange state-of-the art updates around the knowledge of the seismic resilience of infrastructure systems.

Prof. Dr. Davide Forcellini
Guest Editor

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• resilience
• infrastructures
• bridges
• earthquakes
• loss
• recovery