Wind Effects on Civil Infrastructure

Dear Colleagues,

In recent decades, the wind engineering community and public authorities have faced important challenges caused by significant losses due to damage to residential units and civil infrastructure caused by extreme wind events. The professionals in the field are therefore called to integrate all resources to implement a higher-level performance-based wind design framework to design safer and more cost-effective buildings and civil infrastructure. Code provisions used for mandatory analysis and design are thus augmented by cutting-edge computational and experimental tools to accurately reproduce the wind loads induced by synoptic and non-synoptic events, the structural and non-structural damage and losses, as well as the functional recovery duration for individual buildings, clusters of buildings, and residential homes on a city scale, in a comprehensive resilience-targeted design of civil infrastructure.

This Special Issue aims to compile the most advanced and novel approaches in the wind structural engineering field by covering topics related to the effects of wind on buildings and structures in the current critical civil infrastructure network that serves and affects large communities, i.e., bridges, energy transportation systems, industrial facilities, wind turbines, etc.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following themes related to wind effects on civil infrastructure: wind loads on buildings and other structures; computational wind engineering; codes and standards; wind tunnel testing; structural response to hurricanes, tornadoes, and downbursts; cladding systems; windborne debris effects; nonlinear wind-induced structural response; structural and non-structural damage and loss evaluation; performance-based wind engineering; risk evaluation; resilience-targeted analysis and design; vibration monitoring; response control to wind loads; smart structures; AI-based approaches in wind-related structural engineering; and building information modelling implementation.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Mihail Iancovici
Guest Editor

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• wind loads
• numerical methods
• wind tunnel testing
• extreme winds
• performance-based wind design
• nonlinear response
• damage
• resilience
• smart structures