Seismic Design and Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete, Masonry and Steel Structures with Innovative Materials and Devices
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 58
Special Issue Editors
Interests: seismic retrofitting and strengthening; vulnerability assessment; design of R.C. structures and members; FRP; FRCM; dissipative beam-column joint; dissipative bracing; dynamic analysis; ground motion modelling; pushover analysis
Interests: masonry; composite materials; retrofitting and strengthening; building engineering; seismic vulnerability assessment; experimental investigation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
During the last decades, the use of innovative materials and devices has increasingly extended to the field of building construction. The use of active, semi-active, or passive seismic response control systems is an appealing alternative to the capacity design criterion for the design of new buildings, but it also constitutes one of the methods to mitigate the seismic vulnerability of existing structures. However, the role of local strengthening interventions has maintained its centrality, both in cases where the reduced vulnerability of buildings allows only local interventions that do not sufficiently modify the overall structural behaviour for seismic adaptation, and in cases where the high vulnerability requires the coupling of local strengthening interventions and the use of structural response control systems.
This Special Issue is open to papers devoted to all kinds of research concerning the seismic design of reinforced concrete, steel, masonry, or new timber structures, or retrofitting and strengthening of existing ones by means of innovative material and devices. Contributions aimed at the formulation of analytical and mechanical models for the evaluation of the seismic capacity and response of elements and structures, results and interpretations of experimental tests, analysis by means of numerical models of sample elements and structures, and descriptions of research conducted by means of paradigmatic case studies may form part of the proposed contributions.
Research contributions may involve work that analyses the use of seismic response control and mitigation systems, whether active, semi-active, or passive, as well as structural reinforcement interventions using innovative materials such as composite materials in polymeric matrix (FRP) or inorganic matrix, typically known as FRCMs (fabric reinforced cementitious matrix systems), or sustainable materials with low environmental impact.
Dr. Piero Colajanni
Dr. Jennifer D'Anna
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- seismic strengthening
- seismic response control
- dissipative devices
- local strengthening
- composite materials
- numerical model
- experimental investigation
- FEM
