Performance Evaluation, Testing and Design of Composite Structures
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 3148
Special Issue Editor
Interests: steel structures; structural stability; structural dynamics; earthquake engineering; numerical modeling; damage identification and quantification; computer-aided analysis and design of structures; composite structures
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As population grows and as countries compete to showcase their technical prowess and engineering ingenuity, more and more high-rise buildings and long-span bridges are being built around the world. These skyscrapers and viaducts are often subjected to exceedingly high gravity and lateral loads. To resist these loads, the use of high-capacity structural members is inevitable. Composite members are high-performance structural elements that not only are capable of resisting these large loads, but exhibit the necessary ductility and toughness to ensure structural resilience to static and dynamic excitations as well as a myriad of environmental stressors. Composites are materials that are engineered from two or more materials with different physical, mechanical, and structural properties. They possess many desirable characteristics not found in any single material. Some commonly used materials for composite construction include concrete, steel, reinforced plastics, high-performance cement, steel-reinforced ultra-high strength concrete, metal impregnated shotcrete, and engineered wood. Structural members made using a combination of these materials often show high strength and stiffness. They are also more durable and possess high toughness.
This Special Issue invites papers that address the fabrication, analytical/numerical/experimental studies, and design and applications of high-performance composite structural members and systems in civil engineering applications. Topics that are of interest include the investigation of the physical, mechanical, and structural properties of these members; analytical and numerical analyses of the behavior of these members under monotonic and/or cyclic axial load, shear, bending moment, and torsion; and the design and applications of these composite members in civil infrastructures.
Examples of subject areas that are considered suitable for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- Behavior of composite beams, columns, frames, shear walls, and other special structural elements;
- Analysis of double and multi-skinned composite structural members;
- Development of novel composites;
- Rehabilitation, retrofitting, and performance enhancements of existing composite elements/structures;
- Innovations in composite fabrications;
- Experimental validation/studies;
- Formulation of empirical and design equations;
- Fire and corrosion resistance.
Dr. Eric M. Lui
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- composite structures
- analysis and design
- static and cyclic behavior
- numerical modeling
- experimental investigations
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