Sustainable Structural Design and Risk Management

Dear Colleagues,

Structural design combines the core principles of engineering with a strong background in physics and materials science. Its purpose is to ensure that structures can properly withstand the loads and forces they will encounter during their lifetime.

Sustainable structural design, related to the principles of environmental, social, and economic values, should generate a solution to any engineering problem by adequately addressing and balancing these criteria and values in a closed context to the scope and role of the engineering project.

This Special Issue of Sustainability will address and consolidate new research findings regarding sustainable structural design as a combination of new design principles, new materials, and new technologies to improve their performance and overall efficacy in servicing their beneficiaries.

Furthermore, risk management encompasses the identification, analysis, and response to risk factors that form part of the life of a design process. Addressing risk management means understanding and evaluating, as much as possible, future outcomes by acting proactively rather than reactively. Thus, effective risk management has the potential to reduce the possibility of a risk occurring, and to prevent its potential impact.

From this perspective, the combination of sustainable structural design and risk management is aligned with reliable user-friendly and environmentally friendly engineering projects.

In light of these recent developments, this Special Issue invites original submissions and review articles covering some of the recent advances in sustainable structural design practices, as well as the assessment of potential risk from theoretical, experimental, or numerical perspectives.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Case studies and field observations;
• Numerical modelling;
• Material behavior—experimental or numerical studies;
• Innovative sustainable structures;
• Innovative sustainable materials;
• Eco-friendly materials;
• Sustainable construction practices;
• Constitutive modelling;
• Life-cycle assessment for sustainable materials;
• Sustainable materials in manufacturing applications.

Dr. Ştefan Lucian Tabacu
Dr. Catalin Marian Ducu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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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. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly 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.

• design processes
• sustainable structures
• sustainable materials
• construction practices
• numerical modelling
• risk management