Simulation- and Modelling-Aided Structural Integrity and Safety

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue (SI) covers a wide range of modern trends in the study of the integrity and safety of engineering materials and structures based on computational simulation and modeling. In this SI, several topics are covered, such as design, safety, reliability, and integrity of engineering materials and structures. This Special Issue focuses on issues related with structural engineering and mechanics, structural integrity, durability, stability, safety, probabilistic modeling, advanced mathematical tools, engineering design, fatigue, fracture mechanics, damage mechanics, analytical and numerical simulation, structural modeling, and other related areas. We also invite you to submit articles on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools/algorithms in the integrity and safety assessments and analyses of engineering materials and structures.

Scientists and design engineers have marginally explored the potential of computational tools supported by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in analyses of structural safety and integrity, as well as in the damage detection and assessment of engineering structures, both in the context of supporting experimental tests as well as in fatigue computational modeling. Increasingly, artificial intelligence algorithms (AI) for image processing collected in structural inspections, as well as the use of these same algorithms for fatigue damage assessment and in computational fracture mechanics methods seem to be an effective tool for engineering materials and structure design and analysis.

In this sense, this Special Issue will contribute to the scientific and technological advancement in the use of computational tools/algorithms used for simulation and modeling of structural integrity, structural safety, fatigue, fracture mechanics, and design of engineering materials and structures.

The guest editors of this Special Issue on structural integrity and safety aided by simulation and modeling hope to obtain the contribution of engineers, metallurgists, scientists, among others, allowing for a very multidisciplinary discussion.

Dr. José A.F.O. Correia
Prof. Shun-Peng Zhu
Dr. Zhongxiang Liu
Dr. Haohui Xin
Prof. Subhrajit Dutta
Guest Editors

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