Seismic Performance of Constructed Facilities

Time and again, major earthquakes have proven to be disastrous, involving massive property damage and, most importantly causing casualties. To ensure the desired seismic performance, design standards exercise many controls. Besides design, constructed facilities can have many sources of deficiencies to contribute to seismic vulnerability. It is imperative to understand the seismic behavior of existing facilities to reduce seismic fragility through effective retrofitting schemes to ensure the seismic safety of the built environment. Manuscripts on seismic performance and vulnerability of existing structures, assessment of retrofitted structures, seismic assessment of structures made with cost-effective construction practices and retrofitting solutions are invited with intend to plan for long term and short term mitigation strategies towards a safer built environment

Seismic risk reduction can be achieved by adopting a myriad of approaches. However, the feasibility and compatibility of these approaches depend on factors such as socioeconomic level of society, environmental factors, availability of resources, Skilled workforce, etc. The goal of the research topic is to pool ideas and information incorporating various perspectives aimed at reducing the seismic risk associated with earthquake events.


The scope of the topic includes but is not limited to:

1. Seismic vulnerability assessment of structures based on various construction practices followed

2. Numerical modeling approaches to simulate the non-linear response of structures

3. Advancement in seismic retrofitting approaches and development of cost-effective solutions

4. Seismic vulnerability associated with non-structural components

5. seismic assessment of structures made with cost-effective construction practices and retrofitting solutions

6. Determination of seismic amplification/de-amplification at a site

7. Seismic risk reduction