Earthquake Prevention and Resistance in Civil Engineering
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2024 | Viewed by 476
Special Issue Editors
Interests: structural analysis; construction engineering; earthquake engineering; structural dynamics; finite element analysis; construction; building finite element modeling; construction materials; civil engineering materials
Interests: structural dynamics; nonlinear analysis; structural vibration; finite element modeling; structural optimization; steel structures; structural engineering; reliability analysis; finite element analysis; vibration control
Interests: structural reliability; structural optimization; artificial intelligence for predicting the design and reliability of earthquake-resistant structures; offshore structures; bridge structures
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Technical submissions are welcome to this Special Issue entitled “Earthquake Prevention and Resistance in Civil Engineering”.
At present, a great number of economic and human losses have been registered in the world due to the occurrence of destructive earthquakes. In general, civil engineers design buildings following guidelines and/or construction codes. The main objective of those regulations is to prevent the collapse of the structures under the action of the most probable maximum earthquake in the zone under consideration. Unfortunately, there is still a knowledge gap in the prevention of damage to structures when they are excited by ground motions. In addition, the resistance and resilience of buildings must be accomplished within tolerable limits in terms of strength and service. Within this context, the performance-based seismic design philosophy has been in constant development for the last two decades.
Hence, this Special Issue welcomes submissions of comprehensive technical reviews as well as scientific papers where the following topics are addressed: earthquake engineering, structural reliability, seismic risk, structural health monitoring of infrastructure, earthquake resistance of steel and reinforced concrete buildings, resilience of structures excited by earthquakes, performance-based seismic design, ground motion selection for response history analyses, and other related topics.
Dr. José Ramón Gaxiola Camacho
Dr. Leandro Fleck Fadel Miguel
Dr. Dante Tolentino
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- earthquake engineering
- structural safety
- performance-based seismic design
- reliability of structures
- seismic risk
- ground motion selection
- structural health monitoring
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