Special Issue "Study and Application in Construction: Disaster Prevention and Structural Engineering"

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to inform you that the journal Sustainability now has a Special Issue on the topic of “Study and Application in Construction: Disaster Prevention and Structural Engineering”. Your expertise in the field is much appreciated and you are invited to contribute with your original research work.

Hazards represent a common treat for urban areas and constructions nowadays, with great impact on the wellbeing of the inhabitants and also on the economies of cities.

The topic of disaster prevention represents a multidisciplinary field which brings together the topic of risk assessment with those of management and urban development. Civil engineering, environmental engineering, architecture, social and economic sciences, as well as political sciences represent fields of interest for this Special Issue.

The aim is to reduce the gap between scientists, decision-makers and stakeholders in the process of disaster risk reduction, by creating a common background and understanding.

This Special Issue invites researchers to contribute original research papers and application studies on innovative approaches and solutions in the fields of disaster prevention and structural engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• State-of-the-art and review papers in the fields of disaster prevention and structural engineering
• Vulnerability assessment of individual buildings
• Vulnerability assessment of urban areas
• Multi-risk approaches for constructions
• Structural diagnosis
• Case studies
• Disaster prevention policies

Prof. Dr. Marius Mosoarca
Prof. Dr. Antonio Formisano
Dr. Iasmina Onescu
Dr. Alexandra Iasmina Keller
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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 2200 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.

• hazards
• structural engineering
• disaster reduction
• constructions
• management