Special issue on safety and resilience of large-span public buildings
Published 10 January, 2022
Large-span spatial structures in use as public buildings must be able to cater for an increasingly high flow of people, so ensuring the structures’ safety and resilience is crucial. These public buildings tend to be larger and lighter and have multiple functions, increasing the demands on existing theoretical analysis and construction techniques. For example, the potential impact of extreme loads caused by earthquakes, wind or snow, requires a rethink of safety design theories and methodologies, how hazards can be identified, performance evaluation, and resilience improvement.
This special issue will feature the most recent developments in safety and resilience theories and techniques related to large-span public buildings. The goal is to provide a platform for knowledge to be exchanged and experiences shared on emerging methods and technologies, practical implementations, and lessons learned.
All submissions must contain a clear discussion about the novelty aspects and their contributions to the subject knowledge, as well as practical implications.
Topics covered:
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
Category 1: performance evaluation and structural safety
- Seismic performance (evaluation theory)
- Fluid-solid coupling (wind-induced vibration)
- Snow load (accumulated and uneven distribution effects)
- Explosion response and anti-explosion protection
- The whole process behaviour of dynamic catastrophe
Category 2: resilience improvement
- Seismic performance improvement and resilience method
- Structural health monitoring theory
- Structural health monitoring technology, system and its engineering applications
- Local damage identification technology and method (AI, IoT)
Category 3: Structural types
- Large-span steel structure
- Large-span grid structure
- Large tension cable membrane buildings
- Large area inflatable membrane buildings
Important deadlines:
- Submission deadline: 10 January 2023
Submission instructions:
Please read the Guide for Authors before submitting. All articles should be submitted online; please select ‘SI: Smart city and resilience’ on submission. Authors should specify that they are submitting to the special issue in their cover letter. If the manuscript is accepted, the article will be published open access with no fee payable by the author.
Guest Editors:
- Wujun Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Email: cwj@sjtu.edu.cn
- Feng Liu, China Academy of Building Research, China. Email: liufeng@cabrtech.com
- Zhihua Chen, Tianjin University, China. Email: zhchen@tju.edu.cn
- Zhixiang Yu, Southwest Jiao Tong University, China. Email: yzxzrq@home.swjtu.edu.cn
- Xiuli Wang, Lanzhou University of Technology, China. Email: 135739056@qq.com
Managing Editor:
- Jianhui Hu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Email: j.hu@sjtu.edu.cn
