Special Issue: Resilience and Sustainability of Civil Infrastructures under Extreme Loads

Abstract

The special issue entitled ‘‘Resilience and Sustainability of Civil Infrastructures under Extreme Loads’’ updates the state of the art and perspectives focused on cutting-edge approaches to enhance structures’ resilience and sustainability under extreme loading events, including theoretical investigation, numerical simulation, and experimental study, keeping an eye on the seismic performance of civil structures. Notably, some innovative energy dissipative devices and resilient structural forms, which are encompassed in this special issue, would provide valuable references for the engineering application of resilient and sustainable civil infrastructures in the near future.

Risk-Based Approach for Informing Sustainable Infrastructure Resilience Enhancement and Potential Resilience Implication in Terms of Emergency Service Perspective

“…Many ideas prove this in theory and practice. In accordance with the UN development framework [1], the infrastructure resilience is connected with sustainable urban operation [41,42], and more precisely, with sustainability in the light of extreme events (e.g., natural hazards) [43]. Moreover, Kloosterman, Veeneman and van der Hoek conclude that sustainable societal infrastructure influences conflicting claims of infrastructures [44], which proves a strong connection between resilience and sustainability in the analysed context.…”