Damage Diagnosis and Safety Assessment of Bridge Structures under Multiple Hazards

Dear Colleagues,

The quality of bridge structures declines over time, due to various degradation processes, such as creep, corrosion, and cyclic loading. During its life cycle, a bridge also faces great threats from multiple hazards, such as wind, earthquakes, collisions, fire, scour, floods, waves, landslides, among others. Structural damages to an existing bridge affect the operational and structural safety, and weaken the sustainability of the bridge. Therefore, advanced damage diagnosis techniques and safety assessment methods are urgently required to ensure structural safety and sustainability of bridges.

This Special Issue aims to gather manuscripts on the recent scientific developments in probabilistic hazard analysis, structural exposure models, damage diagnosis methods, testing and measurement techniques, dynamic behavior and protection technology, damage mechanism, risk assessment framework, and resilience-based approaches. It will provide important theoretical and technical support for bridge damage diagnosis and safety assessment, and promote communication and cooperation between design, construction, research, teaching, and production. This Special Issue welcomes original contributions and recent progress on the fundamental theory, research papers, and case studies on, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Dynamic behavior and mechanism of bridges under multiple hazards;
• New technology and methods of damage diagnosis for bridge structures;
• Intelligent sensing technology for bridge health monitoring;
• Risk- and resilience-based evaluation and design for bridges;
• Life cycle analysis, retrofit, and rehabilitation;
• Multi-disaster effect and vulnerability models;
• Probabilistic, statistical, and machine learning-based method;
• Structural vibration control technology and application;
• Bridge collapse simulation, inversion, and accident analysis technology;
• Hazard prevention and mitigation measures;
• Probabilistic hazard analysis and characteristic measurements of multiple hazards.

Prof. Dr. Kai Wei
Dr. Mingjin Zhang
Dr. Jian Zhong
Dr. Yutao Pang
Guest Editors

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