About this Research Topic
Bridges serve as vital components within transportation networks, assuming a pivotal role in establishing connections between communities, facilitating the mobility of populations, sustaining the functionality of infrastructures, enabling swift access to emergency services during crises or natural calamities, and fostering economic growth. Nevertheless, bridges encounter numerous obstacles, encompassing the effects of ageing, escalating demands for transportation infrastructure, and susceptibility to the impacts of natural disasters and climate change. Addressing these challenges necessitates innovative and transformative approaches that complement ongoing advancements, aiming to enhance the longevity of existing bridges and elevate the performance standards of future bridge structures.
This Special Issue invites papers presenting numerical and/or experimental research on innovative solutions for resilient bridges against natural disasters, ageing and deterioration. This Special Issue aims to promote the wider use of advanced materials and structural design technologies in the industry and improve the resiliency of our bridge infrastructures.
We invite research and development on innovative and advanced solutions for resilient bridge design as well as the use of numerical models, structural health monitoring techniques, and experimental research to design climate-resilient and durable structures.
The main goal is to generate a forum for the current state of knowledge and future research directions in the overall area of bridge performance improvement under ageing and natural hazards.
· Innovative and advanced bridge systems for improving bridge performance under service and extreme loads.
· Numerical simulation models for new and existing bridges.
· Service life prediction models for different bridge systems and construction materials.
· Prediction models for the bridges’ degradation processes
· Application of structural health monitoring in service life prediction
· Case studies and on-site testing of bridges under service and natural hazard conditions.
· Reliability-based approaches for uncertainty quantification, deterioration modelling, maintenance modelling, and optimization
· Practical design tools and software that can facilitate the design practice of bridges.
· Approaches to improve the resilience of bridges subjected to natural disasters.
· Approaches to improving bridge performance during climate change.
· State-of-the-art reviews related to the above-mentioned topics.
This Special Issue invites papers presenting numerical and/or experimental research on innovative solutions for resilient bridges against natural disasters, ageing and deterioration. This Special Issue aims to promote the wider use of advanced materials and structural design technologies in the industry and improve the resiliency of our bridge infrastructures.
We invite research and development on innovative and advanced solutions for resilient bridge design as well as the use of numerical models, structural health monitoring techniques, and experimental research to design climate-resilient and durable structures.
The main goal is to generate a forum for the current state of knowledge and future research directions in the overall area of bridge performance improvement under ageing and natural hazards.
· Innovative and advanced bridge systems for improving bridge performance under service and extreme loads.
· Numerical simulation models for new and existing bridges.
· Service life prediction models for different bridge systems and construction materials.
· Prediction models for the bridges’ degradation processes
· Application of structural health monitoring in service life prediction
· Case studies and on-site testing of bridges under service and natural hazard conditions.
· Reliability-based approaches for uncertainty quantification, deterioration modelling, maintenance modelling, and optimization
· Practical design tools and software that can facilitate the design practice of bridges.
· Approaches to improve the resilience of bridges subjected to natural disasters.
· Approaches to improving bridge performance during climate change.
· State-of-the-art reviews related to the above-mentioned topics.
Keywords: Resilience, Systems, Natural disasters
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