Safety and Optimization of Building Structures—2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Ensuring the safety of designed, erected, and operated load-bearing and enclosing building structures is the most important task of engineering, science, and practice of design and operation. An important aspect of this is the development of design and optimization methods. The goals of such optimization can be not only material consumption or costs but also the risks of accidents. The relevance of preventing risks of material and socio-economic losses is the main priority, and new modern scientific research and practice will allow us to advance in its solution. The most important factors here are the force and environmental impacts on structures, such as corrosion, high-temperature heating, mechanical shocks, seismic activity, etc. The main purpose of the Special Issue is to provide a platform for discussion of the main problems related to the mechanical, fire, and environmental safety of load-bearing and enclosing structures of buildings and assessment of their technical condition. In these conditions, it is important to consider the stages of the structure's life cycle, optimal design and calculation algorithms development to ensure sustainable evolution, and the required level of comfort of the environment of buildings.

Dr. Anatoly Alekseytsev
Guest Editor

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• structural optimization
• mechanical safety
• progressive collapse resistance
• fire safety
• life cycle
• metaheuristic algorithms
• risk prevention
• sustainable development
• reliability
• optimal design

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