Vulnerability Assessment with Modelling Approaches in Strctural Systems

Dear Colleagues,

In the past few decades, cities in the developing world face outstanding economic and human losses due to natural or human-made hazards. Vulnerability assessments of existing buildings, cultural heritage assets, and infrastructures area crucial part of a risk mitigation methodology to improve the quality of preventive measures, emergency management, and resilience of cities. By performing structural vulnerability assessments on a large scale, the economic impact of future risks can be predicted, and risk mitigation methodologies can be defined by the authorities. Experimental and numerical simulations are required to investigate structural behavior, predict their capacity, and assess their vulnerability against various types of risks to estimate possible losses. It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue, gathering original research contributions and critical reviews that go beyond the current knowledge in the vulnerability assessment of existing structures by means of experimental, numerical, and analytical investigations. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: experimental and numerical modeling and analysis of structures; vulnerability assessment of buildings and infrastructures such as bridges, roads, and dams, etc.; developing 3D digital twins of cultural heritage assets; seismic vulnerability assessment by performing nonlinear dynamics analysis; fragility and loss analysis of existing structures; soil–structure interaction effects on structural behavior; application of machine learning in structural vulnerability assessment methodologies.

Prof. Dr. Mahdi Kioumarsi
Guest Editor

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• vulnerability assessment
• digital twins
• nonlinear analysis
• buildings
• infrastructures
• finite element analysis
• machine learning