Concrete Structure Design and Health Monitoring: Enhancing Resilience in Face of Disasters
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 2161
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Interests: engineering material; engine design; environment engineering; environment monitoring instruments and instrumentation; civil engineering
Interests: sustainable, smart materials and systems; infrastructure assessment and rehabilitation; bridge engineering; structural health monitoring; computational modeling
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Interests: earthquake engineering; structural vibration; building; structural dynamics; finite element analysis; construction engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, the concept of resilience has gained increasing importance in design, assessment, rehabilitation structures, infrastructure systems, and maintenance, particularly bridges and transportation networks exposed to man-made and natural hazards.
Conventional structures rely on ductile design, dissipate energy through the plastic deformation of structural members, and are expected to not collapse after disasters, such as earthquakes, in order to protect life. However, damage is expected to accumulate in ductile structures, which are often seriously damaged, and heavy repair work and serious plastic deformation are inevitable after disasters, resulting in huge economic losses. These represent considerable costs associated with the disruption of business operations and significant obstacles to post-disaster emergency response, and result in a prolonged disruption of regional or even national economies. Therefore, resilience is required to ensure that structural function or normal operation can be recovered quickly after disasters, which has attracted much attention in recent years. Many high-performance resilient systems have been developed, such as self-centering structures, rocking structures, base-isolated structures, damper-added structures, etc. In addition, many components or devices that are self-centering, replaceable, or feature energy dissipation have also been extensively studied to enhance their resilience. This development is also accompanied by the advance of performance evaluation methods and design.
Moreover, key components of most structures are prone to deterioration due to, for example, fatigue and corrosion. Therefore, structural health monitoring (SHM) has become an important tool for risk reduction and safety management of various structures. An effective use of SHM can substantially reduce operation costs and risks. However, although experimental monitoring techniques, wireless sensors, and energy harvesting have proven effective in laboratory settings, the need to upscale to large dimensions and integrate these approaches into a holistic SHM approach is urgent.
This Special Issue plans to give an overview of the most recent advances in the field of high-performance resilient structures and their practical applications. Additionally, this Special Issue aims to bring together all aspects of quality monitoring, starting from fit-for-service checks, up to damage assessment of structures during usage.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Structural health monitoring (SHM);
- Concrete structure design;
- Resilient structures;
- Self-centering structural system;
- Rocking structural system;
- Seismic-resilient structures based on high-performance materials;
- Seismic-resilience-based design method;
- Seismic performance evaluation of seismic-resilient structures;
- Damper-added structural system;
- Isolated structural system;
- High-performance precast structure.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Mahmoud H. Akeed
Dr. Akram R. Jawdhari
Dr. Marijana Hadzima-Nyarko
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- structural health monitoring (SHM)
- concrete structure design
- resilient structures
- self-centering structural system
- rocking structural system
- seismic-resilient structures based on high-performance materials
- seismic-resilience-based design method
- seismic performance evaluation of seismic-resilient structures
- damper-added structural system
- isolated structural system
- high-performance precast structure
