Risk, Resilience, Safety, and Sustainability of Construction Structures
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 735
Special Issue Editors
Interests: risk; resilience; and reliability-based optimization for the design; assessment; and life-cycle management of engineered assets; artificial intelligence; critical infrastructures
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Interests: life-cycle engineering; structural reliability, risk and resilience; electric power systems; climate change adaptation; application of AI in civil engineering
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Interests: finite element method (FEM); static and dynamic analysis of structures with FEM; earthquake engineering; optimum design of structures; reliability and probabilistic analysis of structures; neural networks and their applications in engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increasing complexity of the built environment demands advanced approaches to the assessment and management of risk, resilience, safety, and long‑term sustainability. Climate change, extreme environmental events, aging materials, and uncertainties in loading and operational conditions introduce new challenges that traditional assessment methods can no longer fully address. Consequently, this Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances, emerging methodologies, and open research questions related to modeling, predicting, and enhancing the resilience and safety of structures throughout their life cycle. Particular emphasis is placed on innovative computational techniques, surrogate modeling, simulation‑based risk assessment, and data‑driven frameworks that support sustainable and climate‑adaptive structural design and management.
Contributions from researchers and practitioners are welcome if they address areas of interest that include (but are not necessarily limited to) the following topics:
- Simulation‑based analysis of structural performance under climate‑induced hazards;
- Sensitivity analysis for evaluating structural vulnerability and failure mechanisms;
- Resilience‑oriented and sustainability‑driven design optimization;
- Risk‑informed decision‑making for lifecycle structural management;
- Data‑driven and AI‑enhanced methods for monitoring, forecasting, and mitigating structural risks;
- Modeling the impact of extreme events (e.g., floods, heatwaves, storms, and seismic activity) on structural safety;
- Integration of digital twins for real‑time resilience and sustainability evaluation.
Dr. Jafar Jafari-Asl
Dr. You Dong
Prof. Dr. Vagelis Plevris
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- structural resilience
- risk assessment
- lifecycle management
- climate adaptive design
- sustainable infrastructure
- structural design optimization
- advanced optimization techniques
- artificial intelligence
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