Civil Engineering
A section of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417).
Section Information
Civil Engineering once encompassed all non-military engineering and, as such, is a very wide-ranging subject area. Today, it covers all things big—bridges, buildings, foundations, dams, rivers, water distribution networks, roads, transportation networks and a significant element of general technical management. This Section welcomes original contributions to all relevant subject areas of Applied Sciences. As there are already specialist journals in many of these areas, we particularly welcome contributions that do not easily fall into any one sub-discipline or emerging areas that do not yet have their own journals.
In recent decades, there has been a surge in computing power while the cost of electronics and sensing technologies has fallen. We particularly welcome contributions that exploit the opportunities that these developments have made possible. Download Section Flyer
Subject Areas
Structural Engineering
- Reducing the carbon footprint improving the circularity of structures
- Assessment, reliability and optimization of structures
- Strengthening and retrofitting of existing structures
- Structural dynamics
- Structural health monitoring
- Vibration Control
- Active and passive control of civil constructions
Building materials and technologies
- Building Information Modelling (BIM)
- Timber, masonry, steel and concrete, historic materials, shape memory alloys
- Eco-materials (recycled, materials from waste, bio-based materials, etc.)
- NDT and monitoring
Geotechnical Engineering
- Soil dynamics
- Engineering behaviour of soil and rock
- Slope stability; dams
- Rock engineering
- Environmental geotechnics
- Geosynthetics
- Discrete Element Modelling
- Soil/Structure Interaction
Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
- Climate change and flood control
- Nature-based Solutions to Flooding
- Hydropower project construction
- Water resource planning and management
- Water supply and wastewater engineering
- Groundwater hydrology and hydrogeology
- Surface water hydrology
- Hydrometeorology
- Canals and inland waterways
- Harbours and coastal engineering
Transportation
- Roads and highways
- Road maintenance (including pavements, asphalt and self-healing materials)
- Tunnels and underground excavations
- Air transportation
- Traffic control
- Transportation optimization
- Safety analysis
Construction engineering
- Construction Management
- Performance-based design
- Construction materials handling
- Infrastructure Production
- Ancient architecture
- Computer Applications
- Construction Pollution Control
- Floating Offshore Platforms
Earthquake engineering
- Earthquake loading foundation design
- Tectonics and seismology
- Seismic vibration control
- Seismic response of buildings and other structures
- Earthquake protection system
- Repair and strengthening
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Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Advances in Cement-Based Materials (Deadline: 20 August 2024)
- Durability and Intelligent Evaluation of Concrete Structures (Deadline: 20 August 2024)
- Applications of High-Performance Concrete in Construction (Deadline: 20 August 2024)
- Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges (Deadline: 20 August 2024)
- Seismic Design and Ductility Evaluation of Concrete Filled Thin-Walled Steel Tubular Columns (Deadline: 20 August 2024)
- Advances in Tunnel and Underground Construction (Deadline: 20 August 2024)
- Advanced Technologies in Seismic Design, Assessment and Retrofitting (Deadline: 20 August 2024)
- City Resilience to Windstorm Hazard (Deadline: 20 August 2024)
- Artificial Intelligence Monitoring and Early Warning in Rock Engineering (Deadline: 20 August 2024)
- Advanced Technologies in Asphalt Materials, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 August 2024)
- Rock Mass Characterization: Failure and Mechanical Behavior (Deadline: 20 August 2024)
- Latest Advances in Modeling, Monitoring and Structural Analysis for Large-Scale Civil Structure (Deadline: 20 August 2024)
- Application of Artificial Intelligence in the Mining Industry (Deadline: 30 August 2024)
- Geotechnical Engineering: Principles and Applications (Deadline: 30 August 2024)
- Latest Research on Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- Foundation Treatment in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- Fiber Optic Sensing in Civil Engineering: Recent Applications and Developments in Structural and Geotechnical Monitoring (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- Smart Green Technology in Railway Engineering (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- Seismic and Energy Retrofitting of Existing Buildings (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- Soil Liquefaction in Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- Advances in Pavement Materials for Sustainable Construction (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- New Insights into Finite Element Analysis for Building Structure Assessment (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- Microstructure of Low-CO2 Construction Materials (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- Recent and Multidisciplinary Developments in Natural Disaster Prevention and Risk Reduction (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- Structural Dynamics in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 10 September 2024)
- Advances in Intelligent Bridge: Maintenance and Monitoring (Deadline: 20 September 2024)
- Structural and Earthquake Engineering: Advances, Innovations and Challenges (Deadline: 20 September 2024)
- Technologies and Methods for Exploitation of Geological Resources (Deadline: 20 September 2024)
- Reliability and Risk Analysis of Structures and Applications to Design and Optimization, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 September 2024)
- Bridge Structural Analysis (Deadline: 20 September 2024)
- Recent Advances of Low-Carbon Cement (Deadline: 20 September 2024)
- State of the Art of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 20 September 2024)
- Earthquake Engineering: Geological Impacts and Disaster Assessment (Deadline: 20 September 2024)
- Advances in High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete, Second Edition (Deadline: 20 September 2024)
- Geotechnical Engineering and Infrastructure Construction (Deadline: 20 September 2024)
- Soil-Structure Interaction in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 20 September 2024)
- Advances in Tunneling and Underground Engineering (Deadline: 20 September 2024)
- Technical Advances in Recycled Construction Materials (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- High Reliability Building Structures: Retrofits, Designs and Applications, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering: Current Progress and Road Ahead (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Structural Analysis and Seismic Resilience in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Monitoring, Prevention and Control of Dynamic Disasters in Underground Space Engineering (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Advances in Reinforced Concrete Structural Health Monitoring (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Stability Control of Underground Openings under High Stress and Deep Mining Environment (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Environmental Impact and Control of Geotechnical Engineering Construction (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Advanced Technologies in SHM, Performance Evaluation, and Reliabilty Analysis (Deadline: 7 October 2024)
- Sustainable Technologies and Measures for Urban and Building Rehabilitation (Deadline: 10 October 2024)
- Earthquake Engineering and Seismic Risk (Deadline: 20 October 2024)
- Advanced Technologies in Landfills (Deadline: 20 October 2024)
- Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort in Buildings (Deadline: 20 October 2024)
- Advances in Engineering Soil Properties and Testing for Ground Stabilization (Deadline: 20 October 2024)
- Building Information Modeling (BIM): Advance and Future Trends (Deadline: 20 October 2024)
- Advanced Devices and Data Analysis in Vibration Control and Structural Health Monitoring (Deadline: 20 October 2024)
- Recycled Aggregate and Recycled Aggregate Concrete (Deadline: 20 October 2024)
- Advances in Bridge Design and Construction: Technologies and Applications (Deadline: 20 October 2024)
- New Trends in Sustainable Concrete and Its Structural Applications, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 October 2024)
- Structural Health Monitoring for Concrete Dam (Deadline: 20 October 2024)
- Enhancing Structural Sustainability: Data-Based Adaptive Solutions for the Built Environment (Deadline: 20 October 2024)
- Advanced Underground Construction Technologies (Deadline: 20 October 2024)
- Study on Lightweight Concrete: Latest Advances and Prospects (Deadline: 20 October 2024)
- Advances in Bridge Design and Structural Performance: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 October 2024)
- Advanced Structural Analysis for Earthquake-Resistant Design of Buildings (Deadline: 20 October 2024)
- Advanced Pavement Engineering: Design, Construction, and Performance (Deadline: 30 October 2024)
- Smart Buildings: Integrating BIM and Artificial Intelligence for New Challenges of Design (Deadline: 30 October 2024)
- Natural and Artificial Fibers in Geoengineering Applications (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- Rock Mechanics in Geotechnical and Tunnel Engineering (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- Advances in Deformation Control Technologies for Deep Excavations in Congested Urban Areas: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- Intelligent Construction: Advancements in Civil Engineering and Building Structures (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- Advanced AI Technologies in Infrastructure Construction (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- The Application of Machine Learning in Geotechnical Engineering, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- Health Monitoring of Existing Building Stock: New Insights and Strategies (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- Geomaterials: Latest Advances in Materials for Construction and Engineering Applications (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology: New Trends and Perspectives (Deadline: 10 November 2024)
- Internet of Things (IoT) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the Construction Industry (Deadline: 20 November 2024)
- Recent Advances in Asphalt Materials and Their Applications (Deadline: 20 November 2024)
- Advances in Structural Health Monitoring in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 20 November 2024)
- Performance-Based Seismic Design (Deadline: 20 November 2024)
- Advances in High-Performance Construction Materials (Deadline: 20 November 2024)
- Seismic Resistant Analysis and Design for Civil Structures (Deadline: 20 November 2024)
- Geotechnical Structure Analysis and Risk Assessment in Tunnel Engineering (Deadline: 20 November 2024)
- Technical, Material, Structural, and Managerial Issues in Prefabricated Construction (Deadline: 20 November 2024)
- Progress in Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation (Deadline: 20 November 2024)
- Advanced Study on Diagnostics for Surfaces of Historical Buildings (Deadline: 20 November 2024)
- Sustainable Concrete Materials and Resilient Structures (Deadline: 20 November 2024)
- Structural Pounding Risk between Buildings (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Advances in Failure Mechanism and Numerical Methods for Geomaterials (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Infrastructure Management and Maintenance: Methods and Applications (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Rock Mechanics (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Robotics and Automation Systems in Construction: Trends and Prospects (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Application of Building Information Modeling in Construction Management (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Advances and Techniques in Rock Fracture Mechanics (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Sustainable Decision Support for Infrastructure Management (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Construction Materials: Characterization, Structure and Durability (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Cross-Scale Cracks in Rock Mass Under Multi-Phase and Multi-Field Coupling (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Risk Control and Performance Design of Bridge Structures (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Effects of Temperature on Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Advancements in Fire Safety Science and Engineering: From Fundamental Understanding to Practical Applications (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Advances and Challenges in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Artificial Intelligence in Civil Engineering: Latest Advances and Prospects (Deadline: 10 December 2024)
- Technology and Management Applied in Construction Engineering Projects II (Deadline: 18 December 2024)
- Performance of Concrete with Low-Carbon Cement Supplements and Zero-Cement (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Innovative Construction Materials for Sustainable Heritage Conservation: Second Edition (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Structural Health Monitoring: Latest Applications and Data Analysis, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Slope Stability and Earth Retaining Structures—2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Technology and Organization Applied to Civil Engineering (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Advances in Building Materials and Concrete, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Alkali-Activated Materials: Advances and Novel Applications (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Advanced Diagnostics and Nondestructive Testing Technologies for Civil Structures (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Artificial Neural Network Applications for Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Advanced Technologies in Construction and Infrastructure: Theory, Methods and Applications—2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Advances in Disaster Prevention and Reduction for Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Earthquake Prevention and Resistance in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Novel Construction Material and Its Applications (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Remote Sensing Technology in Landslide and Land Subsidence (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- The Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Management of Construction Engineering Projects (Deadline: 30 December 2024)
- Concrete Structures: Latest Advances and Prospects (Deadline: 30 December 2024)
- Recent Research on Tunneling and Underground Engineering (Deadline: 30 December 2024)
- Application of Advanced Lighting Systems in Buildings and Cities (Deadline: 30 December 2024)
- Advanced Structural Health Monitoring in Civil Engineering (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Latest Advances in Cement and Concrete Composites: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Advances in Structural Dynamics of Construction Materials (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Advances in Seismic Performance Assessment, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Probabilistic-Based Techniques for Damage Assessment of Structures and Infrastructures: Towards New and Integrated Perspectives for Structural Health Monitoring (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Advances in Underground Pipeline Technology, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Sediment Transport and Infrastructure Scour (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Emerging Technologies for Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage - 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Tunnel and Underground Engineering: Recent Advances and Challenges (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Advances in Civil Infrastructures Engineering (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- AI-Assisted Building Design and Environment Control (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Vibration Monitoring and Control of the Built Environment (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Advances in the Building Information Modelling (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Current Technological, Methodological, and Organizational Research Trends in the Construction Industry, Second Edition (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Recent Research Developments in Seismic Design and Risk Assessment: From the Large Spatial Scale to Individual Cases (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Recent Advances in Mining Technology and Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Fracture Mechanics of Asphalt Pavement Materials and Structures (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Mortarless and Interlocking Structures: Towards Environmentally Friendly Construction (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Machine Learning and Numerical Modelling in Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Engineering Groundwater and Groundwater Engineering—2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Advanced Concrete Technology and Applications in Construction Engineering, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Emerging Technologies of Sustainable Building Materials (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Advanced Research on Tunnel Slope Stability and Land Subsidence (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Structural Seismic Design and Evaluation (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Damage Monitoring and Defect Identification Based on Deep/Machine Learning (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 25 January 2025)
- Behavior and Design of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Components and Structures (Deadline: 30 January 2025)
- Smart Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Concrete and Climate: Engineering Low-Carbon Solutions for the Building Sector (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Advances in BIM-Based Architecture and Civil Infrastructure Systems (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Seismic Response and Safety Assessment of Building Structures (Deadline: 1 February 2025)
- Structural Health Monitoring in Bridges and Infrastructure (Deadline: 10 February 2025)
- Advances in Permafrost (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Structural Health Monitoring for Bridge Structures (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Artificial Ground Freezing Technology (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Applications of Waste Materials and By-Products in Concrete (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Development and Application of Innovative Construction Materials (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Structural Mechanics in Materials and Construction (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Building Information Modelling: From Theories to Practices (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- New Challenges in Disaster Prevention and Control of Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Recent Advances in Rock Mass Engineering (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Innovative Design Solutions for Human Well-Being in Architecture and Urban Environments (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Challenges for Sustainable Building: Innovation, Development and Characterisation of New Material Products and Systems (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Advances in Tunnel and Underground Engineering (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Emerging Technologies of Accident Analysis and Prevention in Safety Engineering (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Interactions between Soil Foundations and Structures (Deadline: 25 February 2025)
- Advances in Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology (Deadline: 25 February 2025)
- Application of Intelligent Materials in Inspection, Repair and Reinforcement of Infrastructure: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- New Challenges in Urban Underground Engineering (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Advanced Technology for Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- New Trends of Digital Technology Application in Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Innovative Building Materials: Design, Properties and Applications (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Advances in Petroleum Exploration and Application (Deadline: 30 March 2025)
- Technical Advances in Geosynthetics (Deadline: 30 March 2025)
- Infrastructure Resilience Analysis (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Advances in Numerical Computation and Mathematical Modelling for Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Civil Structural Health Monitoring: Techniques, Systems and Applications (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Low-Cost Seismic Base Isolation in Civil Structures (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- The Applications and Technologies of Structural Health Monitoring in Civil Structures (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Wind Comfort and Action on Structures (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Pavement Engineering: System, Rehabilitation, and Sustainable Strategies for Long-Term Management (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Novel Timber Structures and Materials in Building Engineering (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Offshore Structures: Latest Advances and Prospects (Deadline: 21 May 2025)
- Application of Artificial Intelligence in Rock Mass Engineering (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- Seepage Problems in Geotechnical Engineering (Deadline: 3 July 2026)
- Green and Low-Carbon Concrete Technology and Construction (Deadline: 3 July 2026)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions: