Advances in Bridge Design and Structural Performance: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Bridge infrastructures are incredibly valuable as forms of safe, resilient, and sustainable transportation networks. With increasing traffic demands and long-term exposure to harsh environments, bridge performance undergoes changes over time. This is accompanied by a decrease in reliability owing to the combined action of fatigue, creep, shrinkage, and corrosion. In extreme cases, the observed damage will pose a major threat to public safety if it results in the fracture of crucial load-bearing members, and may lead to the progressive collapse of a structure. Therefore, these potential risks make the fatigue performance assessment and fatigue life prediction of bridges and the safety analysis of degraded bridges under accidental loads, such as earthquakes, explosions, impacts, fires, and typhoons, an important proposition. Furthermore, the design and retrofit of the bridge’s members based on fatigue performance assessment and safety analysis is an effective method for ensuring the long-term and high-quality function of bridges, which is a concern.

In 2022 and 2023, we gathered dozens of excellent papers by researchers from America, Europe and Asia, and published them in the Special Issue "Advances in Bridge Design and Structural Performance". Following on from the success of this Special Issue, in 2024, we will once again collect papers for a Special Issue entitled "Advances in Bridge Design and Structural Performance (2nd Edition)", in which we are aiming to include research on all aspects of bridge design and performance assessment under long-term effects and accidental loads, including, but not limited to, steel bridges, concrete bridges, cables, girders, joints and connectors, accessory members, fatigue damage, creep and shrinkage effects, corrosion and fatigue, accidental loads, crack propagation, multi-factor coupling analysis, multi-scale simulation, time-varying reliability assessment, and so on. If you are interested in this topic and would like to share your work with us, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Dr. Zhongxiang Liu
Prof. Dr. Tong Guo
Guest Editors

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