About this Research Topic
Modern civil engineering has been developing towards intelligence. Both construction technology and material technology are developing towards a more intelligent direction. How to take new means to make the structure have good mechanical performance, and can sense the external environment and load excitation, is a development direction of civil engineering. This Research Topic welcomes researches on the macro and micro mechanical performance analysis of materials, static and dynamic response analysis of structures in construction engineering, bridge engineering, railway engineering and geotechnical engineering. In addition, under the action of wind load and earthquake load, the large-scale vibration of structures will seriously endanger the safety. The safety and stability performances of infrastructures still represent a serious challenge to researchers, engineers, and constructors.
This Research Topic is dedicated to the most recent advances in research into the mechanical performances of structures and materials and some related applications. We welcome scientists and investigators to contribute Original Research and Review articles, addressing the main issues facing the field.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
• New theoretical, numerical, and experimental methods for vibration of structures.
• Assessment of dynamic responses of infrastructures under static and dynamic loads.
• Innovative design and mechanical performances of composite structures.
• Intelligent structural health monitoring with optical fiber sensing technology.
• Mechanical performances of structures and materials from micro to macro scales.
• Mechanism of vehicle bridge coupling vibration.
• Structural fatigue performance analysis under earthquakes.
• Infrastructure innovations for durability and resilience with new structure system and materials.
• Dynamic evolution of structural damage under extreme loads such as earthquake, typhoon and impact.
• Structural heath monitoring of large-scale infrastructures.
• Numerical modelling and computational mechanical analysis of structures and infrastructures.
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