Seismic induced bridge damages and even collapses have been repeatedly observed in many previous major earthquakes. As many bridges are lifeline structures in transportation networks, their damage could impose significant social and economic impact, cause loss of lives, and prevent quick rescue access after the seismic event. It is therefore imperative to better understand the dynamic behaviours of bridge structures subjected to earthquake excitations, and develop effective methods to mitigate earthquake effects and damages on bridges. Though extensive research works have been carried out in this area and many lessons have been learned, effective protections of bridges to resist earthquake loadings is still a highly demanded research topic in both the Bridge Engineering community and Earthquake Engineering community with many resources and man hours being devoted to. Many innovative bridge designs and vibration mitigation methods have been developed recently. This special issue aims to collect the state-of-the-art researches on the seismic behaviours of bridge structures and damage mitigation methods. The topics of the special issue include but are not limited to:
- Novel bridge typesInnovative bridge vibration control methods
- New materials for bridge construction
- Novel testing methods of bridge structures subjected to earthquake loading
- Seismic behaviours of bridge structures
- Modelling of spatially varying earthquake ground motions
- Bridge responses to far-field/near-fault earthquake ground motions
- Modelling of soil-bridge structure interactions
Schedule for the manuscript submission: As soon as possible and before 31 May 2022
Guest Editors
Hong Hao, Centre for Infrastructure Monitoring and Protection, Curtin University, Australia
Kaiming Bi, Centre for Infrastructure Monitoring and Protection, Curtin University, Australia
Guest Editors for the Special Issue:
Hong Hao is John Curtin Distinguished Professor in Curtin University, and Australian Laureate Fellow. He has won four dozen research, research publication and research supervision awards, and has been invited to give more than 80 keynote presentations in international conferences around the globe. His research results are included in textbooks, adopted in design codes, and used in construction projects around the world. He is the President of the International Association of Protective Structures, Australian Rep in the International Association of Earthquake Engineering, Advisory Board member of Australian Network on Structural Health Monitoring. He has published over 600 international journal papers. His publications have received over 24700 citations with H-Index 80 in Google Scholar, and over 16400 citations with H-index 63 in SCI. He is one of the most highly cited researchers in civil engineering, and the no. 1 most highly cited researcher in Civil and Structural Engineering Discipline in 2020 in Elsevier database. He is an elected fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering, Distinguished fellow of International Association of Protective Structures, fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers and fellow of International Association of Engineering Asset Management.
Dr. Kaiming Bi is an Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow in the Centre for Infrastructure Monitoring and Protection (CIMP) at Curtin University, Australia. Dr Bi's researches mainly focus on Structural Vibration Control and Earthquake Engineering. He has developed novel vibration control systems such as inerter-based dampers, negative stiffness dampers and metamaterials for structural vibration control. He has also investigated the dynamic behaviours of a variety of engineering structures such as bridges, buildings, pipelines, wind turbines, offshore platforms. He generated 110 SCI indexed journal papers in the well-known international journals and more than 60 peer-reviewed conference papers. His publications have received more than 2500 citations in Google Scholar with an H-index of 28. Dr Bi has won quite a few highly competitive research grants from Australian Research Council (ARC) and other funding sources, including the prestigious Future Fellowship, Discovery Early Career Award (DECRA) and Discovery Project (DP). Dr Bi received the JM Ko Medal from Advances in Structural Engineering-An International Journal in 2016, he was one of the finalists of the prestigious Western Australia Premier's Science Awards Early Career Scientist of the Year in 2016, he also received the High Achieving Young Investigator Award from the University of Western Australia in 2012. Dr Bi serves as an Early Career Board member of Engineering Structures, and he is also an executive committee member of Australia Earthquake Engineering Society (AEES).