Advances in Seismic Resilience of Infrastructures

Dear Colleagues,

The increasing frequency of seismic events, together with the aging and deterioration of existing structures, highlights the urgent need to enhance the seismic resilience of infrastructures. Bridges and buildings represent essential components of the built environment, yet they often exhibit significant structural vulnerabilities due to material degradation, outdated design standards, and limited maintenance.

This Special Issue aims to collect original research and case studies advancing the design, assessment, and monitoring of structures under seismic loading. The focus is on improving the ability to understand and model the seismic response of infrastructures, to assess damage and performance, and to develop strategies that enhance structural safety and resilience over the entire life cycle.

Particular emphasis is placed on structural and monitoring aspects, including advances in seismic design methodologies, soil–structure and foundation–structure interaction, and probabilistic assessment of seismic performance. The Special Issue also welcomes contributions on emerging Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) technologies, such as data-driven and computer vision-based approaches capable of providing continuous and reliable assessment of structural behavior under both operational and extreme seismic conditions.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Advances in seismic design and assessment of structures and infrastructures;
• Probabilistic and performance-based seismic risk assessment;
• Soil–structure and foundation–structure interaction under seismic loads;
• Life cycle analysis and resilience-based design strategies;
• Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) for seismic performance evaluation;
• Computer vision-based and hybrid SHM systems for dynamic response measurement;
• Data fusion and surrogate modeling for damage detection and prediction;
• Probabilistic frameworks for managing uncertainty in structural monitoring and modelling;
• Decision-making and maintenance optimization based on monitoring outcomes.

We look forward to your contributions!

Dr. Laura Gioiella
Dr. Michele Morici
Dr. Laura Ierimonti
Dr. Vanni Nicoletti
Guest Editors

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• seismic resilience
• structural engineering
• earthquake engineering
• soil–structure interaction
• foundation engineering
• risk assessment
• structural health monitoring
• computer vision-based monitoring
• probabilistic modeling
• infrastructures