Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 3272
Special Issue Editors
Interests: risk and resiliency of infrastructures; performance-based earthquake engineering; machine learning; uncertainty quantification; aging of structures.
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Interests: seismic performance assessment of concrete and masonry buildings; functional recovery; uncertainty quantification; performance-based seismic design of reinforced concrete structures
Interests: policy and tools for earthquake risk reduction; emergency communications for natural hazards; social science of climate change adaptation; critical thinking encompassing our social; natural and built environments
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increasing world population, along with more frequent natural disasters due to global warming, exposes more communities around the world to risk from natural disasters. To mitigate the devastating consequences of such hazards to communities, scientists and decision makers have been focusing on not only designing, constructing, and retrofitting buildings and infrastructures to be stronger individually, but also planning for their faster recovery more collectively and considering their interdependencies and regional-level functionality. While achieving community resilience to natural hazards is a goal of many decision makers, such an achievement should also fulfill societal needs for sustainability and the mitigation of environmental and resource impacts, which can be difficult. The goal of this Special Issue, “Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Management”, is to combine the specialties from structural and earthquake engineering with an advanced understanding of sustainable resilience and risk modelling for natural hazards.
Therefore, we solicit high-quality original research articles presenting state-of-the-art techniques and methods focused at the interface of sustainability, resilience, risk analysis and disaster management for structures and infrastructures subject to earthquakes. We welcome both theoretical and applied papers of high technical standard across various disciplines, thus facilitating an awareness and application of techniques and methods across fields. We seek high-quality submissions of original research articles as well as review articles on all aspects related to sustainability that have the potential for practical application.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Risk and resilience of buildings and lifeline infrastructure systems;
- Social and economic considerations in the design of resilient systems;
- Seismic retrofit solutions and energy efficiency upgrades;
- Sustainable and resilient buildings and infrastructural networks;
- Functional recovery design and planning for the built environment;
- Uncertainty quantification in seismic assessment of structures;
- Compound seismic and other natural hazards towards risk mitigation.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Amin Hariri
Dr. Siamak Sattar
Dr. Katherine J. Johnson
Dr. Juan Fung
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- disaster management
- resilience
- networks recovery
- natural hazards
- risk assessment
- fragility models
- earthquake engineering
- hurricane
- fire
- climate change
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