Advanced Research in Sustainable Seismic Evaluation Methods of Structures and Infrastructure

Dear Colleagues,

Recently, global awareness regarding the general importance of sustainability and building structures’ sustainability in particular has increased. Many urban areas worldwide are prone to earthquakes, which necessitates accurate seismic evaluation frameworks for existing structures. Despite the continuous global expansion of infrastructure in urban areas and the wealth of available seismic evaluation methods for determining safety and serviceability, there is a lack of sustainable seismic evaluation methods that address economical, environmental, and social aspects and integrate them into the existing procedures. Nowadays, these aspects are given the highest priority, due to the rapid expansion of existing urban areas and an urgent need for comprehensive seismic evaluation methods that consider sustainability as well as safety and serviceability.

This Special Issue aims to present state-of-the-art research articles on this topic. The scope of this Special Issue includes structures and infrastructure (e.g., buildings, bridges, cultural heritage, lifelines, etc) as well as research focused on the seismic evaluation of structures, resilience-based design, seismic life cycle cost, fragility assessment, next-generation performance-based design, and sustainable evaluation methods for structural design and construction. Applications of new methods in sustainable seismic evaluation such as machine learning, deep learning, and retrofitting using smart materials and components are also welcome. We encourage contributions dealing with the following:

• Frameworks that consider sustainability in the seismic evaluation of structures;
• Methodologies and/or case studies concerning the resilient/sustainable retrofitting of structures;
• Combined approaches that consider both sustainability and performance-based evaluation of structures;
• Numerical/experimental studies addressing interactions between sustainability/resilience and energy-efficient structural retrofitting of structures;
• Approaches addressing economic, environmental, social aspects, and/or life cycle cost analysis in seismic evaluation of structures.

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Nour Eldin
Guest Editor

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• sustainability
• seismic assessment
• seismic sustainability
• fragility
• seismic retrofitting
• energy-efficient structures
• seismic resilience
• performance-based design