Symmetry in Safety and Disaster Prevention Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

Large-scale urban construction is a growing industry in China. Due to the incomplete and in-depth research on urban construction in many cities and towns, and the lack of symmetry considerations, the rapid development of urban construction has led to a variety of urban disasters. The types, quantity and scope of urban disasters are expanding, so it is objectively required that we must solve the problems in urban construction that we only pay attention to the speed and scale of development, and ignore the symmetry in the development process.

Safety and disaster prevention engineering concerns diverse critical perspectives on all dimensions of engineering disasters. The rapid development of safety and disaster prevention stimulates innovation in strategic emerging industries, and reduces the loss in various disasters. Symmetry is frequently used in safety and disaster prevention engineering such as in model construction and civil engineering.

In this Special Issue of Symmetry, we mainly discuss the application of symmetry in various safety and disaster prevention engineering, including but not limited to seismic engineering structures research; wind engineering and structural safety research; structural health monitoring and safety evaluating; fire safety of structures; disaster prevention mechanism; disaster management system architecture; structure safety analysis method; materials, bridges, rock-soil, municipal and water conservancy protection and diagnosis technology, etc. 

Prof. Dr. Yang Yang
Prof. Dr. You Dong
Prof. Dr. Yao Zhang
Dr. Tianyu Xie
Guest Editors

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