Organizers
- Xu Hong, Assistant Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, xhong@hfut.edu.cn
- Jun Xu, Professor, College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, xujun86@hnu.edu.cn
- Fan Kong, Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, kongfan@hfut.edu.cn
- Yongbo Peng, Professor, Shanghai Institute Disaster Prevention and Relief, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, pengyongbo@tongji.edu.cn
- Jingfeng Wang, Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, jfwang@hfut.edu.cn
Abstract
Engineering structures are commonly vulnerable to catastrophic natural disasters, e.g., seismic ground motions and strong winds. Structural failure due to catastrophic disasters may cause numerous economic losses and casualties. The disastrous load modelling and dynamic reliability analysis are therefore of essential importance for the purpose of hazard mitigation. Nevertheless, high-fidelity and efficient techniques regarding this topic are still challenging. On the one hand, randomness inevitably involves both disastrous loads and structures. On the other hand, the nonlinear behavior of engineering structures (especially under the disastrous dynamic load) makes the problem even more difficult. To this regard, this MS is devoted to reporting the recent advances and emerging approaches related to stochastic dynamics and reliability evaluations of complex engineering structures under disastrous loadings.
Topics for potential contributions include but are not limited to:
- Modelling of disastrous excitations, e.g., the modelling of seismic ground motions and strong winds;
- Pragmatic techniques for stochastic dynamics of complex nonlinear structures;
- Distinct failure mechanisms of complex engineering structures under disastrous loadings;
- Dynamic reliability analysis of complex engineering structures;
- Dynamic reliability analysis involving multiple kinds of failure mechanisms.
