Civil Engineering
A section of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417).
Section Information
Civil Engineering once encompassed all non-military engineering and, as such, is a very wide-ranging subject area. Today, it covers all things big—bridges, buildings, foundations, dams, rivers, water distribution networks, roads, transportation networks and a significant element of general technical management. This Section welcomes original contributions to all relevant subject areas of Applied Sciences. As there are already specialist journals in many of these areas, we particularly welcome contributions that do not easily fall into any one sub-discipline or emerging areas that do not yet have their own journals.
In recent decades, there has been a surge in computing power while the cost of electronics and sensing technologies has fallen. We particularly welcome contributions that exploit the opportunities that these developments have made possible. Download Section Flyer
Subject Areas
Structural Engineering
- Reducing the carbon footprint improving the circularity of structures
- Assessment, reliability and optimization of structures
- Strengthening and retrofitting of existing structures
- Structural dynamics
- Structural health monitoring
- Vibration Control
- Active and passive control of civil constructions
Building materials and technologies
- Building Information Modelling (BIM)
- Timber, masonry, steel and concrete, historic materials, shape memory alloys
- Eco-materials (recycled, materials from waste, bio-based materials, etc.)
- NDT and monitoring
Geotechnical Engineering
- Soil dynamics
- Engineering behaviour of soil and rock
- Slope stability; dams
- Rock engineering
- Environmental geotechnics
- Geosynthetics
- Discrete Element Modelling
- Soil/Structure Interaction
Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
- Climate change and flood control
- Nature-based Solutions to Flooding
- Hydropower project construction
- Water resource planning and management
- Water supply and wastewater engineering
- Groundwater hydrology and hydrogeology
- Surface water hydrology
- Hydrometeorology
- Canals and inland waterways
- Harbours and coastal engineering
Transportation
- Roads and highways
- Road maintenance (including pavements, asphalt and self-healing materials)
- Tunnels and underground excavations
- Air transportation
- Traffic control
- Transportation optimization
- Safety analysis
Construction engineering
- Construction Management
- Performance-based design
- Construction materials handling
- Infrastructure Production
- Ancient architecture
- Computer Applications
- Construction Pollution Control
- Floating Offshore Platforms
Earthquake engineering
- Earthquake loading foundation design
- Tectonics and seismology
- Seismic vibration control
- Seismic response of buildings and other structures
- Earthquake protection system
- Repair and strengthening
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Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Construction Materials: Characterization, Structure and Durability (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Advances and Challenges in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Advances in Failure Mechanism and Numerical Methods for Geomaterials (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Infrastructure Management and Maintenance: Methods and Applications (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Cross-Scale Cracks in Rock Mass Under Multi-Phase and Multi-Field Coupling (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Sustainable Decision Support for Infrastructure Management (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Application of Building Information Modeling in Construction Management (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Effects of Temperature on Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Advancements in Fire Safety Science and Engineering: From Fundamental Understanding to Practical Applications (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Risk Control and Performance Design of Bridge Structures (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Advances and Techniques in Rock Fracture Mechanics (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Structural Pounding Risk between Buildings (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Robotics and Automation Systems in Construction: Trends and Prospects (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Artificial Intelligence in Civil Engineering: Latest Advances and Prospects (Deadline: 10 December 2024)
- Technology and Management Applied in Construction Engineering Projects II (Deadline: 18 December 2024)
- Alkali-Activated Materials: Advances and Novel Applications (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Remote Sensing Technology in Landslide and Land Subsidence (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Advances in Disaster Prevention and Reduction for Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Structural Health Monitoring: Latest Applications and Data Analysis, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Advances in Building Materials and Concrete, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Advances in Bridge Design and Construction: Technologies and Applications (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Advanced Diagnostics and Nondestructive Testing Technologies for Civil Structures (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Novel Construction Material and Its Applications (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Performance of Concrete with Low-Carbon Cement Supplements and Zero-Cement (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Earthquake Prevention and Resistance in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Artificial Neural Network Applications for Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Slope Stability and Earth Retaining Structures—2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Advanced Technologies in Construction and Infrastructure: Theory, Methods and Applications—2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Technology and Organization Applied to Civil Engineering (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Recent Research on Tunneling and Underground Engineering (Deadline: 30 December 2024)
- Application of Advanced Lighting Systems in Buildings and Cities (Deadline: 30 December 2024)
- Concrete Structures: Latest Advances and Prospects (Deadline: 30 December 2024)
- The Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Management of Construction Engineering Projects (Deadline: 30 December 2024)
- Innovative Construction Materials for Sustainable Heritage Conservation: Second Edition (Deadline: 30 December 2024)
- Advances in Civil Infrastructures Engineering (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Advances in the Building Information Modelling (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Advances in Seismic Performance Assessment, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Vibration Monitoring and Control of the Built Environment (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Emerging Technologies for Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage - 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Tunnel and Underground Engineering: Recent Advances and Challenges (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Probabilistic-Based Techniques for Damage Assessment of Structures and Infrastructures: Towards New and Integrated Perspectives for Structural Health Monitoring (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Advances in Structural Dynamics of Construction Materials (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Advances in Underground Pipeline Technology, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- AI-Assisted Building Design and Environment Control (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Sediment Transport and Infrastructure Scour (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Latest Advances in Cement and Concrete Composites: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Structural Seismic Design and Evaluation (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Advanced Research on Tunnel Slope Stability and Land Subsidence (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Current Technological, Methodological, and Organizational Research Trends in the Construction Industry, Second Edition (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Mortarless and Interlocking Structures: Towards Environmentally Friendly Construction (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Fracture Mechanics of Asphalt Pavement Materials and Structures (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- New Paradigms for Resilient Communities: From the Application of Resilience Concepts to the Definition of Intervention Priorities (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Engineering Groundwater and Groundwater Engineering—2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Emerging Technologies of Sustainable Building Materials (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Recent Advances in Mining Technology and Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Advanced Research in Structures and Rocks in Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Advanced Concrete Technology and Applications in Construction Engineering, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Machine Learning and Numerical Modelling in Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Damage Monitoring and Defect Identification Based on Deep/Machine Learning (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 25 January 2025)
- Advances in BIM-Based Architecture and Civil Infrastructure Systems (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Smart Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Concrete and Climate: Engineering Low-Carbon Solutions for the Building Sector (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Seismic Response and Safety Assessment of Building Structures (Deadline: 1 February 2025)
- Structural Health Monitoring in Bridges and Infrastructure (Deadline: 10 February 2025)
- Artificial Ground Freezing Technology (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Advances in Cement-Based Materials (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Structural Mechanics in Materials and Construction (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Applications of Waste Materials and By-Products in Concrete (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- City Resilience to Windstorm Hazard (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Challenges for Sustainable Building: Innovation, Development and Characterisation of New Material Products and Systems (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Structural Health Monitoring for Bridge Structures (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Advances in Tunnel and Underground Engineering (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Building Information Modelling: From Theories to Practices (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- New Challenges in Disaster Prevention and Control of Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Recent Advances in Rock Mass Engineering (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Innovative Design Solutions for Human Well-Being in Architecture and Urban Environments (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Advances in Permafrost (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Development and Application of Innovative Construction Materials (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- New Trends in Long-Life Road Infrastructures: Materials and Structures, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Advances in Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology (Deadline: 25 February 2025)
- Interactions between Soil Foundations and Structures (Deadline: 25 February 2025)
- New Trends of Digital Technology Application in Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Advanced Technology for Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- New Challenges in Urban Underground Engineering (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Application of Intelligent Materials in Inspection, Repair and Reinforcement of Infrastructure: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Advancements of 4th Industrial Revolution in Seismic Assessment, Repair and Design of Structures (Deadline: 10 March 2025)
- Innovative Approaches to Energy Efficiency in Building Design and Operation (Deadline: 10 March 2025)
- Sustainable Construction Systems in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Deadline: 15 March 2025)
- Advances in Tunnel and Underground Construction (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Durability and Intelligent Evaluation of Concrete Structures (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Application of Artificial Intelligence in the Mining Industry (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Seismic Design and Ductility Evaluation of Concrete Filled Thin-Walled Steel Tubular Columns (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Innovative Building Materials: Design, Properties and Applications (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Recent Advances in Modeling, Assessment, and Mitigation of Landslide Hazards, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- BIM Implementation in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Structural Dynamics and Risk Assessment of Structures (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Mechanical Properties and Engineering Applications of Special Soils: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Latest Research on Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 30 March 2025)
- Advances in Petroleum Exploration and Application (Deadline: 30 March 2025)
- Technical Advances in Geosynthetics (Deadline: 30 March 2025)
- Advances in Pavement Materials for Sustainable Construction (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Civil Structural Health Monitoring: Techniques, Systems and Applications (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Advances in Numerical Computation and Mathematical Modelling for Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Infrastructure Resilience Analysis (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- The Applications and Technologies of Structural Health Monitoring in Civil Structures (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Low-Cost Seismic Base Isolation in Civil Structures (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Soil–Water–Plant–Atmosphere Interactions and Processes: Bioengineering of Slopes (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Inspection and Monitoring Techniques for Bridges and Civil Structures, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- New Challenges of Underground Structures in Earthquake Engineering (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Mechanical Properties of Concrete: Advances, Applications and Challenges (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Advances in Structural Vibration Control (Deadline: 10 April 2025)
- Advances in Tunneling and Underground Engineering (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Structural Analysis and Seismic Resilience in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Soil-Structure Interaction in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Geological Modeling and Geomechanical Characterization of Rock Masses for Civil and Mining Engineering Practice (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Advances in High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete, Second Edition (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Fiber Optic Sensing in Civil Engineering: Recent Applications and Developments in Structural and Geotechnical Monitoring (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Mechanical and Structural Behavior of Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Earthquake Engineering and Seismic Risk (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Wind Comfort and Action on Structures (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Reliability and Risk Analysis of Structures and Applications to Design and Optimization, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Advances in Intelligent Bridge: Maintenance and Monitoring (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Earthquake Engineering: Geological Impacts and Disaster Assessment (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Advanced Technologies in Landfills (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Advances and Application of Construction Materials (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Contemporary Tunnel Engineering (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Seismic Resistant Design and Analysis for Building Structures and Infrastructure Systems (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Computational Fluid Dynamics and Modeling for Hydraulic Engineering (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Novel Approaches for Optimal Design and Seismic Performance Assessment for Civil Structures (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Artificial Intelligence for Structural Health Monitoring, Inspection, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation of Civil Infrastructure (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Environmental Impact and Control of Geotechnical Engineering Construction (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Advanced Technologies in SHM, Performance Evaluation, and Reliabilty Analysis (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Geotechnical Engineering: Principles and Applications (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Soil Liquefaction in Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Structural Dynamics in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Novel Timber Structures and Materials in Building Engineering (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Pavement Engineering: System, Rehabilitation, and Sustainable Strategies for Long-Term Management (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering: Implications and Sustainable Solutions for Infrastructures and the Environment (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Sustainable and Low-Carbon Building Materials in Special Areas (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Advances in Non-Destructive Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Detection (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Simplified Seismic Analysis of Complex Civil Structures (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Advanced Blasting Technology for Mining (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Structural Health Monitoring for Concrete Dam (Deadline: 20 May 2025)
- Advanced Structural Analysis for Earthquake-Resistant Design of Buildings (Deadline: 20 May 2025)
- Advanced Devices and Data Analysis in Vibration Control and Structural Health Monitoring (Deadline: 20 May 2025)
- Sustainable Technologies and Measures for Urban and Building Rehabilitation (Deadline: 20 May 2025)
- Geotechnical Engineering and Infrastructure Construction (Deadline: 20 May 2025)
- Intelligent Construction: Advancements in Civil Engineering and Building Structures (Deadline: 20 May 2025)
- Enhancing Structural Sustainability: Data-Based Adaptive Solutions for the Built Environment (Deadline: 20 May 2025)
- Advanced Underground Construction Technologies (Deadline: 20 May 2025)
- Rock Mechanics in Geotechnical and Tunnel Engineering (Deadline: 20 May 2025)
- Smart Buildings: Integrating BIM and Artificial Intelligence for New Challenges of Design (Deadline: 20 May 2025)
- Advances in Structural Health Monitoring in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 20 May 2025)
- State-of-the-Art Structural Health Monitoring Application (Deadline: 20 May 2025)
- Pavement Construction: Material Characterization and Durability Analysis, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 May 2025)
- Offshore Structures: Latest Advances and Prospects (Deadline: 21 May 2025)
- Application of Artificial Intelligence in Rock Mass Engineering (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- Technical Advances in Recycled Construction Materials (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- Intelligent Prediction and Performance Optimization for Deep Underground Resource Excavation Process (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- Stability Control of Underground Openings Under High Stress and Deep Mining Environment: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- Building Information Modeling (BIM): Advance and Future Trends (Deadline: 10 June 2025)
- Advances in High-Performance Construction Materials (Deadline: 20 June 2025)
- Study on Lightweight Concrete: Latest Advances and Prospects (Deadline: 20 June 2025)
- Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology: New Trends and Perspectives (Deadline: 20 June 2025)
- Advanced Study on Diagnostics for Surfaces of Historical Buildings (Deadline: 20 June 2025)
- Behavior and Design of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Components and Structures (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
- Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Rock Mechanics (Deadline: 10 July 2025)
- The Application of Machine Learning in Geotechnical Engineering, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 10 July 2025)
- Advances in Solid Mechanics and Applications to Slender Structures (Deadline: 30 July 2025)
- Innovations and Applications in Tunnel Construction and Maintenance (Deadline: 30 July 2025)
- Identification and Measurement of Displacements and Deformations of Engineering Structures: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
- Natural and Artificial Fibers in Geoengineering Applications (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
- Emerging Technologies of Accident Analysis and Prevention in Safety Engineering (Deadline: 20 August 2025)
- Computational Hydraulics: Theory, Methods and Applications (Deadline: 26 August 2025)
- Advances in Bridge Design and Structural Performance: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
- Advanced Structural Health Monitoring in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
- Advanced Geotechnical Engineering Technology and Application in Environmental Detection (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
- Seepage Problems in Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 3 July 2026)
- Green and Low-Carbon Concrete Technology and Construction (Deadline: 3 July 2026)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions: