Civil Engineering
A section of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417).
Section Information
Civil Engineering once encompassed all non-military engineering and, as such, is a very wide-ranging subject area. Today, it covers all things big—bridges, buildings, foundations, dams, rivers, water distribution networks, roads, transportation networks and a significant element of general technical management. This Section welcomes original contributions to all relevant subject areas of Applied Sciences. As there are already specialist journals in many of these areas, we particularly welcome contributions that do not easily fall into any one discipline or emerging areas that do not yet have their own journals.
In recent decades, there has been a surge in computing power while the cost of electronics and sensing technologies has fallen. We particularly welcome contributions that exploit the opportunities that these developments have made possible. Download Section Flyer
Subject Areas
Structural Engineering
- Structural dynamics
- Structural health monitoring
- Vibration Control
- Active and passive control of civil constructions
- Assessment, reliability and optimization of structures
- Strengthening and retrofitting of existing structures
Building materials and technologies
- Building Information Modelling (BIM)
- Timber, masonry, steel and concrete, historic materials, shape memory alloys
- Eco-materials (recycled, materials from waste, bio-based materials, etc.)
- NDT and monitoring
Geotechnical Engineering
- Soil dynamics
- Engineering behaviour of soil and rock
- Slope stability; dams
- Rock engineering
- Environmental geotechnics
- Geosynthetics
- Discrete Element Modelling
- Soil/Structure Interaction
Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
- Hydropower project construction
- Water resource planning and management
- Water supply and wastewater engineering
- Climate change and flood control
- Groundwater hydrology and hydrogeology
- Surface water hydrology
- Hydrometeorology
- Canals and inland waterways
- Harbours and coastal engineering
Transportation
- Roads and highways
- Road maintenance (including pavements, asphalt and self-healing materials)
- Tunnels and underground excavations
- Air transportation
- Traffic control
- Transportation optimization
- Safety analysis
Construction engineering
- Construction Management
- Performance-based design
- Construction materials handling
- Infrastructure Production
- Ancient architecture
- Computer Applications
- Construction Pollution Control
Earthquake engineering
- Earthquake loading foundation design
- Tectonics and seismology
- Seismic vibration control
- Seismic response of buildings and other structures
- Earthquake protection system
- Repair and strengthening
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Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- New Digital Technologies for Masonry Structures (Deadline: 15 December 2023)
- Advanced Pavement Engineering: Design, Construction, and Performance (Deadline: 20 December 2023)
- Analysis and Design of Pavement Structure (Deadline: 20 December 2023)
- Advanced Technologies in Seismic Design, Assessment and Retrofitting (Deadline: 20 December 2023)
- Recent Technologies and Applications of High-Performance Cement and Concrete (Deadline: 20 December 2023)
- Artificial Intelligence Monitoring and Early Warning in Rock Engineering (Deadline: 20 December 2023)
- Application of Hydrological Models in Hydraulic Engineering (Deadline: 20 December 2023)
- Remote Sensing Technology in Landslide and Land Subsidence (Deadline: 20 December 2023)
- Advances in Protective Structures and Materials (Deadline: 20 December 2023)
- Advances in Underground Pipeline Technology (Deadline: 30 December 2023)
- Structural Mechanics in Materials and Construction (Deadline: 30 December 2023)
- Towards the Road of Future—Sustainability and Innovation in Pavement Engineering (Deadline: 30 December 2023)
- Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) in the Building and Construction Industry - 2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 December 2023)
- Fatigue, Performance, and Damage Assessment of Concrete (Deadline: 30 December 2023)
- Identification and Measurement of Displacements and Deformations of Engineering Structures (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Pavement Construction: Material Characterization and Durability Analysis (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Recent Advances in Wind Engineering: Innovative Methods and Technologies (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Advances in Circular Economy in Built Environments (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Smart City Environmental Monitoring Systems (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Properties and Applications of Sustainable and High-Performance Concrete Materials (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Advances in Disaster Prevention and Reduction for Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Soft Soil Mechanics and Foundation Consolidation (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Application of Intelligent Materials in Inspection, Repair and Reinforcement of Infrastructure (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Engineering Structures: Design and Assessment Issues for Static and Seismic Actions (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Advances on 3D Printing in Engineering, Architecture and Construction Industry (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Present Status, Technology and Materials in Tunnelling and Underground Engineering (Deadline: 20 January 2024)
- Analysis and Design for Sustainable and Durable Structural Concrete in Infrastructures (Deadline: 20 January 2024)
- Emerging Technologies and Advances in Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 20 January 2024)
- Structural Dynamic Analysis and Optimization Design for Multifunctional Materials (Deadline: 20 January 2024)
- Sustainability in Geotechnics (Deadline: 20 January 2024)
- Carbon Neutrality, Carbon Reductions, and CO2 Utilization in the Concrete Industry (Deadline: 20 January 2024)
- Latest Advances in Modeling, Monitoring and Structural Analysis for Large-Scale Civil Structure (Deadline: 20 January 2024)
- Structural Health Monitoring for Bridge Structures (Deadline: 30 January 2024)
- High-Reliability Structures and Materials in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 30 January 2024)
- Inspection and Monitoring Techniques for Bridges and Civil Structures (Deadline: 30 January 2024)
- Challenges for Sustainable Building: Innovation, Development and Characterisation of New Material Products and Systems (Deadline: 30 January 2024)
- Reliability and Risk Analysis of Structures and Applications to Design and Optimization (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Applications of Waste Materials and By-Products in Concrete (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Advances in Deformation Control Technologies for Deep Excavations in Congested Urban Areas: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Fiber Optic Sensing in Civil Engineering: Recent Applications and Developments in Structural and Geotechnical Monitoring (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Advances in Tunnel and Underground Construction (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Design and Seismic Performance Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Structures (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Seismic Performance of Long-Span Bridges Subjected to Near/Cross Fault Earthquake: Analysis, Design and Assessment (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Renewable Energy in Green Building (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Failure and Deformation Behavior of Underground Geo-Structures: Advances in Geomechanics (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- New Trends of Digital Technology Application in Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Advanced Research in Seismic and Dynamic Engineering for Structures and Infrastructures (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Advances in Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Durability and Intelligent Evaluation of Concrete Structures (Deadline: 20 February 2024)
- Advances in Civil Structural Damage Detection and Health Monitoring (Deadline: 20 February 2024)
- Alkali-Activated Materials: Advances and Novel Applications (Deadline: 20 February 2024)
- High Reliability Building Structures: Retrofits, Designs and Applications (Deadline: 20 February 2024)
- City Resilience to Windstorm Hazard (Deadline: 20 February 2024)
- Railway Infrastructures Engineering: Latest Advances and Prospects (Deadline: 20 February 2024)
- Advances in Tunneling and Underground Engineering (Deadline: 20 February 2024)
- Advances in Reinforced Concrete Structural Health Monitoring (Deadline: 28 February 2024)
- Mechanical and Structural Behavior of Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (Deadline: 28 February 2024)
- Advances in Cement-Based Materials (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Current Technological, Methodological, and Organizational Research Trends in the Construction Industry, Second Edition (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Latest Research on Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Advances in Seismic Performance Assessment, Volume II (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Structural and Earthquake Engineering: Advances, Innovations and Challenges (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Digital Construction Planning, Control, and Maintenance (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining in Geotechnical Engineering: Innovative Approaches and Applications (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Bridge Structural Analysis (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Monitoring, Prevention and Control of Dynamic Disasters in Underground Space Engineering (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Seismic Assessment and Design of Structures: Volume 2 (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Geotechnical Engineering and Infrastructure Construction (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency in Sustainable Buildings (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Advanced Technologies in Asphalt Materials, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Rock Mass Characterization: Failure and Mechanical Behavior (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Soil-Structure Interaction in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Geomaterials: Latest Advances in Materials for Construction and Engineering Applications (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Non-destructive Evaluation for Products and Processes (Deadline: 1 March 2024)
- Latest Advances in Cement and Concrete Composites (Deadline: 1 March 2024)
- Recent Advances in the Effect of Blast Loads on Structures (Deadline: 20 March 2024)
- Steel Structural Stability in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 20 March 2024)
- State-of-the-Art in Structural Steel Engineering (Deadline: 20 March 2024)
- Technologies and Methods for Exploitation of Geological Resources (Deadline: 20 March 2024)
- Recent Challenges and Innovations in Long-Span Bridges (Deadline: 20 March 2024)
- New Challenges in Civil Structure for Fire Response Volume II (Deadline: 20 March 2024)
- Construction Materials: Characterization, Structure and Durability (Deadline: 20 March 2024)
- Structural Health Monitoring of Tunnel and Underground Engineering (Deadline: 20 March 2024)
- Sustainable Concrete Materials and Resilient Structures (Deadline: 20 March 2024)
- Recent Advances in Tunneling and Underground Space Technology (Deadline: 30 March 2024)
- Advances in Structure Health Monitoring: Wave/Vibration-Based Techniques and Smart Materials (Deadline: 30 March 2024)
- Research Progress on Fiber-Reinforced Recycled Concrete (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Applications of High-Performance Concrete in Construction (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Advances in Bridge Design and Structural Performance (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Foundation Treatment in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Engineering Groundwater and Groundwater Engineering (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Emerging Technologies for Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage - 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Building Information Modeling (BIM): Advance and Future Trends (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Geotechnical Structure Analysis and Risk Assessment in Tunnel Engineering (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- New Trends in Sustainable Geotechnics—Volume II (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Cross-Scale Cracks in Rock Mass Under Multi-Phase and Multi-Field Coupling (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- The Application of Machine Learning in Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- State of the Art of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- New Trends in Sustainable Concrete and Its Structural Applications, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Advances in Pavement Materials for Sustainable Construction (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- The Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics in Materials and Structures (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Advanced Technologies in Construction and Infrastructure: Theory, Methods and Applications (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Slope Stability and Earth Retaining Structures (Deadline: 10 April 2024)
- Earthquake Engineering and Seismic Risk (Deadline: 20 April 2024)
- Machine Learning and Data Mining in Vibration Control and Structural Health Monitoring (Deadline: 20 April 2024)
- Advances in High-Performance Construction Materials (Deadline: 20 April 2024)
- Advanced Structural Health Monitoring: From Theory to Applications, 3rd Edition (Deadline: 20 April 2024)
- Advanced Concrete Technology and Applications in Construction Engineering (Deadline: 20 April 2024)
- Advanced Devices and Data Analysis in Vibration Control and Structural Health Monitoring (Deadline: 20 April 2024)
- Structural Analysis and Seismic Resilience in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 20 April 2024)
- Advances in High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete, Second Edition (Deadline: 20 April 2024)
- Structural Health Monitoring for Concrete Dam (Deadline: 20 April 2024)
- Environmental Impact and Control of Geotechnical Engineering Construction (Deadline: 20 April 2024)
- Advances and Challenges in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (Deadline: 20 April 2024)
- The Advances of Rock Dynamics: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 April 2024)
- Offshore Structures: Latest Advances and Prospects (Deadline: 30 April 2024)
- Performance-Based Seismic Design (Deadline: 30 April 2024)
- Advances in Failure Mechanism and Numerical Methods for Geomaterials (Deadline: 30 April 2024)
- Intelligent Construction: Advancements in Civil Engineering and Building Structures (Deadline: 30 April 2024)
- Effects of Temperature and Humidity on Cement Materials (Deadline: 30 April 2024)
- Technical, Material, Structural, and Managerial Issues in Prefabricated Construction (Deadline: 30 April 2024)
- Sustainable Decision Support for Infrastructure Management (Deadline: 30 April 2024)
- Advanced Structural Analysis for Earthquake-Resistant Design of Buildings (Deadline: 30 April 2024)
- Vibration Control and Isolation Systems for Civil Engineering Applications (Deadline: 2 May 2024)
- Internet of Things (IoT) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the Construction Industry (Deadline: 20 May 2024)
- Structural Health Monitoring: Latest Applications and Data Analysis, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 May 2024)
- Advances in Performance of Mortar, Concrete and Composites Based on Portland and Alternative Binders (Deadline: 20 May 2024)
- Advanced Techniques in Tunnelling (Deadline: 20 May 2024)
- Seismic Resistant Analysis and Design for Civil Structures (Deadline: 20 May 2024)
- Bridge Construction and Traffic Loading (Deadline: 20 May 2024)
- Tunnel and Underground Engineering: Recent Advances and Challenges (Deadline: 20 May 2024)
- Advances in Bridge Design and Construction: Technologies and Applications (Deadline: 20 May 2024)
- Underground Energy Storage in Mining and Tunneling Engineering (Deadline: 20 May 2024)
- Damage Monitoring and Defect Identification Based on Deep/Machine Learning (Deadline: 20 May 2024)
- Novel Construction Material and Its Applications (Deadline: 25 May 2024)
- Advances in Building Materials and Concrete, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Urban Underground Engineering: Excavation, Monitoring, and Control: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Application of Building Information Modeling in Construction Management (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Advances in BIM-Based Architecture and Civil Infrastructure Systems (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Enhancing Structural Sustainability: Data-Based Adaptive Solutions for the Built Environment (Deadline: 6 June 2024)
- Application of Advanced Lighting Systems in Buildings and Cities (Deadline: 10 June 2024)
- Probabilistic-Based Techniques for Damage Assessment of Structures and Infrastructures: Towards New and Integrated Perspectives for Structural Health Monitoring (Deadline: 20 June 2024)
- Monitoring and Reducing Structural Vibrations in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 20 June 2024)
- Advanced Diagnostics and Nondestructive Testing Technologies for Civil Structures (Deadline: 20 June 2024)
- Structural Seismic Design and Evaluation (Deadline: 20 June 2024)
- New Trends in Long-Life Road Infrastructures: Materials and Structures (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Geological Modeling and Geomechanical Characterization of Rock Masses for Civil and Mining Engineering Practice (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Smart Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Feature Review Papers in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Application of Artificial Intelligence in Rock Mass Engineering (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Mortarless and Interlocking Structures: Towards Environmentally Friendly Construction (Deadline: 20 July 2024)
- Application of Fuzzy Sets in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 20 July 2024)
- Advanced Research on Tunnel Slope Stability and Land Subsidence (Deadline: 20 July 2024)
- Advances in Tunnel and Underground Engineering (Deadline: 20 July 2024)
- New Insights into Finite Element Analysis for Building Structure Assessment (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering: Current Progress and Road Ahead (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Stability Control of Underground Openings under High Stress and Deep Mining Environment (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Advanced Technologies in SHM, Performance Evaluation, and Reliabilty Analysis (Deadline: 7 October 2024)
- Sustainable Technologies and Measures for Urban and Building Rehabilitation (Deadline: 10 October 2024)
- Infrastructure Management and Maintenance: Methods and Applications (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Recent Research on Tunneling and Underground Engineering (Deadline: 30 December 2024)
- Advances in Civil Infrastructures Engineering (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Vibration Monitoring and Control of the Built Environment (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Advances in the Building Information Modelling (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Seepage Problems in Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 3 July 2026)
- Green and Low-Carbon Concrete Technology and Construction (Deadline: 3 July 2026)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions: