Assessment and Retrofit 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: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 119
Special Issue Editors
Interests: design; retrofitting; numerical modeling; steel; reinforced concrete; buildings; bridges; irregular structures; combined shear force on reinforced concrete members
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Interests: design; retrofitting; numerical modeling; steel buildings; reinforced concrete; buildings; irregular structures; hollow steel sections
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is open to all kinds of advances and novel applications related to prestressed and non-prestressed reinforced concrete structures in seismic and non-seismic areas. Papers can focus on laboratory tests and the numerical modeling of members subjected to monotonic or cyclic actions, as well as on the seismic analysis and assessment of single members, subassemblies, or complex structures. The structures considered can be the result of modern or old structural codes and are also subjected to damage from climatic actions, e.g., the corrosion of longitudinal and transverse reinforcements. The results of the numerical analyses can be elaborated in compliance with deterministic or probabilistic analyses to evaluate the seismic vulnerability, risk, or resilence of structures. We particularly welcome research studies on the retrofitting of structures by means of traditional or innovative methods and on loss assessment.
Dr. Pier Paolo Rossi
Dr. Melina Bosco
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- prestressed and nonprestressed reinforced concrete
- laboratory tests
- numerical modeling
- seismic assessment
- retrofit
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