Structural Resilience and Sustainable Development of Reinforced Concrete Structures
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 3549
Special Issue Editors
Interests: reinforced concrete; passive control systems; seismic vulnerability of structures; seismic risk assessment
Interests: novel construction materials; seismic strengthening of existing structures; sustainability and resilience engineering; reinforced concrete
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Interests: reinforced concrete structures; seismic vulnerability of structures; multi-hazard analysis; seismic fragility analysis
Interests: seismic engineering; structural analysis; seismic design; RC structures
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The environmental impact of reinforced concrete structures is increasingly a source of discussion in various areas of knowledge. In addition to the construction of new reinforced concrete structures, natural disasters cause damage to existing structures that require rehabilitation and retrofit actions. New construction and the extensive use of conventional materials and structural systems contribute significantly to the emission of greenhouse gases. Various ongoing projects are currently focused on reducing the carbon footprint of reinforced concrete structures. Moreover, structural resilience is one of the key parameters which is of great importance and it is directly linked to the use of suitable materials and, therefore, to the greenhouse gas emissions linked to structures and infrastructures. The use of new materials, the application of control systems, and the continuous updating of building codes are some of the ways towards resilience and sustainable development.
This Special Issue will include original research of analytical or experimental studies, applications, and case studies that, among their objectives, pursue a sustainable development of reinforced concrete structures.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Green development of structures and use of sustainable materials;
- Structural resilience;
- Environmental impact of RC structures;
- Use of passive, hybrid, active and semi-active control devices;
- Seismic risk assessment of sustainable structures;
- Seismic vulnerability of RC structures;
- Use of new methodologies to design sustainable structures;
- Improvement of life-cycle of structures;
- Damage mitigation in RC structures;
- Rehabilitation and retrofit techniques for sustainable RC structures.
Prof. Dr. José Jara
Dr. Andreas Lampropoulos
Prof. Dr. Bertha Alejandra Olmos
Prof. Dr. Humberto Varum
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable materials
- life-cycle of structures
- seismic design and assessment of buildings
- damage mitigation
- control devices
- advanced numerical modelling of structures
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