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International Journal of Lifecycle Performance Engineering

 

Special Issue on: "Vibration Control Strategies to Improve the Lifecycle Performance of Engineering Structures"

Guest Editor:
Dr. Emiliano Matta, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Stable economic growth and the social development of most countries are intimately dependent upon the reliable and durable performance of their structures and infrastructures. Natural hazards, ageing and functionality fluctuations can inflict detrimental effects on the performance of structural systems during their lifetime. Even the inherently conservative initial design of structural systems may not protect them from such threats.

In order to improve the lifecycle performance of engineering structures subjected to dynamic hazards (earthquakes, wind, traffic, machinery, sea waves etc.), considerable research attention has been devoted to developing and optimising a variety of vibration control strategies, successfully applied to both new and existing structures in the different fields of civil, marine, mechanical, transportation, nuclear and aerospace engineering. These strategies, encompassing passive/active/hybrid/semi-active systems and include, among others, base isolation, dissipation enhancement and resonant absorption, can efficiently contribute to an enhanced safety and serviceability of structures and infrastructure systems, reducing their operational costs and lifetime vulnerabilities.

Despite these efforts, further advancement is still needed, especially aimed at evaluating and comparing alternative vibration control paradigms in a lifecycle perspective, in order to ultimately show their cost-effectiveness in meeting long-term requirements of structural safety, robustness, serviceability, durability and sustainability.

This special issue is dedicated to the various aspects of the theory and application of dynamic vibration control as a means to improve the life-cycle performance of engineering structures. Both original research papers and state-of-the-art reviews are welcome; high-quality papers, balancing theory and practice and presenting experimental results, are particularly encouraged.

Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lifecycle performance analysis
• Lifecycle oriented design and retrofit
• Lifecycle cost assessment and asset management optimisation
• Uncertainty modelling, analysis and prediction
• Applied structural reliability and risk based design
• Computer-based structural multi-objective optimisation
• Vulnerability to dynamic hazards (earthquakes, wind, traffic, machineries, waves, etc.)
• Lifecycle-based design for extreme dynamic events or in-service loads
• Policies and technologies for natural hazards risk reduction
• Serviceability-based criteria for interventions, target safety levels for upgrading
• Experimental investigation of the dynamic performance of structures
• Dynamic protection of civil, marine, mechanical, transportation, nuclear and aerospace engineering structures and lifeline systems
• Vibration control strategies for improved safety, robustness, resilience, serviceability, durability, sustainability of new and existing engineering structures
• Passive/active/hybrid/semi-active structural vibration control
• Base isolation, dissipative bracings, tuned mass damping
• Advanced technologies, smart and sustainable materials, products and systems
• Damage evolution and risk analysis, degradation and aging of structural materials, fatigue
• Rehabilitation techniques, repair and strengthening methods
• Recent developments in performance-based codes and regulations
• Case studies

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.

Expressions of interest and abstract proposals must be sent to the Guest Editor Dr. Emiliano Matta at emiliano.matta@polito.it.

Abstract proposals must be sent to the Guest Editor Dr. Emiliano Matta at the email address above.

Abstract submissions should be 1-2 pages, outlining the problem, its importance, methods and key results.

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our Submitting articles page.

If you have any queries concerning this special issue, please email the Guest Editor at the email address above.

Important Dates

Manuscripts due by: 30 April, 2018