Deadline Date: 28 August 2027
This Special Issue, entitled “Advanced Numerical Methods, Computational Models, and Theoretical Analysis for Structural Earthquake Engineering” aims to provide a focused platform for recent advances in computational mechanics, numerical simulation, and data-enhanced modeling for seismic analysis and design. In line with the journal’s emphasis on calculation and numerical methods, this Special Issue prioritizes methodological innovations, including nonlinear finite element formulations, multiscale and multi-physics modeling, reduced-order and surrogate models, stochastic and reliability-based computation, high-performance simulation frameworks, and AI-assisted numerical approaches. Seismic engineering problems involving bridges, tunnels, lifeline systems, offshore and coastal infrastructure, buildings, and other civil engineering systems will serve as representative application scenarios for demonstrating, validating, and bench-marking these computational methods. Contributions are particularly welcome when they present new algorithms, constitutive, contact, and damage models, computational workflows, model-updating strategies, hybrid experimental–numerical validation, or machine-learning and physics-informed modeling techniques. Theoretical and analytical studies are also encouraged, particularly when they establish governing equations, variational or energy-based formulations, stability criteria, semi-analytical solutions, or benchmark results that can support, verify, and improve numerical algorithms. Studies on near-fault and multi-directional seismic input, soil–structure interaction, seismic fragility, performance-based assessment, resilience, isolation and energy dissipation, structural health monitoring, and multi-hazard deterioration are encouraged, provided that the primary contribution lies in numerical methodology, computational modeling, or quantitative simulation. By emphasizing both methodological rigor and engineering relevance, this Special Issue seeks to advance reliable, efficient, and interpretable computational tools for seismic engineering.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Advanced finite element formulations and nonlinear dynamic analysis methods for seismic engineering.
Theoretical and analytical developments, including governing-equation derivation, variational principles, energy-based methods, semi-analytical solutions, stability analysis, and mathematical characterization of seismic response and damage mechanisms.
Computational models for soil–structure interaction, contact–separation, impact, seismic isolation, and energy-dissipation systems.
Multiscale, multiphysics, and time-dependent modeling of seismic response, damage evolution, and deterioration-coupled behavior.
Numerical treatment of near-fault, vertical, multi-directional, and stochastic ground-motion inputs.
Probabilistic, reliability-based, and performance-based computational methods for seismic fragility, risk, and resilience assessment.
AI-assisted, physics-informed, surrogate, and reduced-order models for efficient seismic simulation and uncertainty quantification.
High-performance computing, digital twins, model updating, and structural-health-monitoring-based computational frameworks.
Hybrid experimental–numerical validation, benchmark studies, and verification of advanced seismic computational models.
Applications of advanced numerical methods to bridges, tunnels, transportation networks, lifeline systems, offshore and coastal infrastructure, and other earthquake-resistant structures.
This Special Issue, entitled “Advanced Numerical Methods, Computational Models, and Theoretical Analysis for Structural Earthquake Engineering” aims to provide a focused platform for recent advances in computational mechanics, numerical simulation, and data-enhanced modeling for seismic analysis and design. In line with the journal’s emphasis on calculation and numerical methods, this Special Issue prioritizes methodological innovations, ... show more
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