Advances in Concrete and Steel Technology and Simulation

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Materials is dedicated to steel and concrete. Steel and concrete are among the world's most widely used construction materials. Their prevalence is related to the variability of load conditions in which they are located. These are mainly different time frames of loading, from long-term static, through various types of seismic and cyclic loading, to impact loading caused by explosion.

The goal of the simulation is usually to monitor a critical or post-critical response. To describe these states, it is necessary to include advanced geometric and material nonlinear models capable of taking into account fatigue, failure, damage, accumulated damage, plasticity with damage, viscosity. An integral part of validation and verification of numerical analyzes is experimental research.

This Special Issue is intended to provide a forum for academic researchers and technicians to exchange their recent work on theoretical, experimental, and computational progress.

The topics of the Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

• Finite element method
• Concrete material models
• Material strain-rate dependency
• Damage modeling
• Fatigue
• Structural failure
• Viscosity
• Critical or post-critical response
• Impact load
• Seismic and cyclic load
• Experimental research of steel and concrete

Prof. Dr. Jiří Kala
Guest Editor

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