Seismic Resilience of Urban Environments
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 September 2024 | Viewed by 1065
Special Issue Editors
Interests: design/evaluation of structures under performance-based earthquake engineering methodologies, specifically the evaluation/reduction of collapse risk and economic losses; design and physical-mechanical-damage characterization of construction materials, especially with the addition of valorized waste
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to present this Special Issue on the seismic resilience of urban environments.
Overall, current seismic design infrastructure codes are primarily aimed at protecting human life, which has been successfully observed in recent large earthquakes in countries with developed engineering and construction practices, such as Chile and New Zealand, where the number of fatalities due to collapsed infrastructure is relatively low. Although repairable, several infrastructure systems exhibit seismic damage, compromising their functional and operational continuity as well as generating significant environmental impacts and economic losses, which strongly affects the resilience of the urban environments where these systems operate.
The seismic resilience of our urban environments can be described as the ability of our infrastructure to rapidly and efficiently cope with the impacts derived from seismic activity. Communities are currently demanding more than structural safety, where resilience should be oriented at minimizing environmental impacts, downtime and economic losses, but evaluated in life-cycle terms.
Consequently, in this Special Issue, we invite you to submit works that combine both sustainability as well as the seismic resilience of infrastructure, addressing topics such as: (i) the performance-based seismic design of new infrastructure, especially with the incorporation of life-cycle design goals (e.g., environmental impacts, downtime and economic losses); (ii) the performance-based seismic retrofit of existing infrastructure; (iii) the development/assessment of new materials/structural systems for improved seismic performance, evaluated in life-cycle terms. Some other possible topics are indicated in the keywords above, but please note that this list is not exhaustive.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Gerardo Araya-Letelier
Dr. Diego López-García
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- seismic resilience
- structural sustainability
- earthquake-induced downtime
- earthquake-induced loss estimation
- urban recovery
- life-cycle analysis
- cost-based optimization
