Collections and calls for papers

Special Issue: Adjacent Interacting Masonry Structures: Shake Table Test, Blind Prediction and Post- Diction Simulations

In many historical centers in Europe, stone masonry buildings are part of building aggregates, which developed when the layout of the city or village was densified. In these aggregates, adjacent buildings sh...

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Special Issue: Alternative Data Collection and Analysis Methods for Disaster Reconnaissance

Disaster reconnaissance work relies primarily and conventionally on the data collected from the field to draw conclusions regarding the performance and compliance of structures and infrastructure. However, w...

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Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence, Sensing and Big Data Analytics in Earthquake Engineering

The digital revolution has brought all scientific disciplines into a data-driven world where digitization is becoming a must for keeping up the pace. Due to the need of processing large amounts of data and t...

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Special Issue: Blind Prediction and Postdiction Simulations of U-shaped Wall Tests. Advances on Modelling and Design of RC Structural Wall Systems

By 2060, the world population is expected to have risen beyond 10 billion and the global number of buildings is estimated to double, among which many reinforced concrete (RC) structures. The global productio...

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Special Issue: February 6, 2023, Kahramanmaraş-Türkiye Earthquakes (M7.7 and 7.6): Reconnaissance Missions and First Observations

The February 6, 2023, Kahramanmaras-Turkiye earthquakes have caused significant damage and loss of life in the region. The damage extent, in terms of human lives and civil structures, encompasses an area of ...

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Special Issue: International Joint Research on the Full-scale Ten-story RC Buildings Tested at E-Defense Shaking Table

In 2015 unique full-scale shaking table tests of 10-story buildings were performed at the largest and the most capable shaking table in the world at E-Defense centre in Japan. Such tests had never been perfo...

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Special Issue: Natech Risk Assessment of Hazardous Facilities

Industrial plants are particularly prone to be highly damaged when subjected to strong earthquakes. This has been clearly demonstrated in the aftermath of strong seismic events, which may trigger technologic...

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Special Issue: Non-Ergodic Ground Motion Models and Hazard

This Special Issue focuses on a collection of papers on non-ergodic GMM modeling and its applications. The Special Issue starts with a comprehensive overview paper by Lavrentiadis, et al., followed by four p...

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Special Issue: On the Seismic Behavior of Masonry Structures: Recent Advances (Selection of expanded papers presented at the 18th International Brick and Block Masonry Conference IB2MaC held in Birmingham, UK (July 21 -24, 2024))

This Special Issue is aimed at collecting thoroughly revised and expanded versions of a selected blend of papers presented at the last International Brick and Block Masonry Conference 18th IB2MaC held in Bir...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 October 2024

Special Issue: Seismic out-of-plane response of unreinforced masonry gables

This Special Issue will be part of an experimental campaign carried out within the scope of the ERIES (Engineering Research Infrastructures for European Synergies) transnational access programme. Three unrei...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2024

Special Issue: The Nineteenth Mallet-Milne Lecture

We are delighted to announce that Professor Gian Michele Calvi has accepted the invitation by the SECED Committee to deliver the 19th Mallet-Milne Lecture next year. As with previous Mallet-Milne lecture nom...

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