Iris Publishers Civil Engineering Open Access Journals

Current Trends in Civil & Structural Engineering Actually, research in civil and structural engineering needs more worldwide collaboration to find solutions for many challenges related to climate change. Particularly, efforts must be focused on the development of modern design codes based on reliability concepts, calibrated from quantitative risk analysis for adapting to, and mitigating the impacts of natural disasters such as storms, sever earthquakes, strong winds …etc. These codes are the basis for engineering design and play an important role in decision making about the performance of structures over their working life. The consideration of reliability concepts in structural and geotechnical engineering is widely recognized because they are based on probability theory that enables the impact on safety and serviceability of uncertainties in both materials behavior and calculation models. Especially in the field of geotechnical engineering, the uncertainties in the soil pro...

Current Trends in Civil & Structural Engineering The intention of this introductory paper is to demonstrate emerging themes and approaches within the civil engineering profession. With this introduction to the first issue of “Current Trends in Civil Engineering”, emphasis is placed on the challenges that have arisen, as suggested from the title itself. The journal reveals an ambition to approach the issue of “current trends”, as they are precisely faced by this discipline. Currently, the profession is provoked to face the increasing demands of modern societies including multilayered public infrastructure and housing for a constantly rising population, while at the same time targeting financial viability and energy consumption. The aforementioned requirements and conditions are proving to be a great challenge and require further innovation in the construction industry. As such, the demand for new materials and rigorous selection criteria [1,2], the need for complicated structur...

Current Trends in Civil & Structural Engineering  Computational geomechanics is the field of computational mechanics where geo-engineering systems are analyzed using the principles of mechanics through numerical methods. In those systems lie porous media with a variety of multi-phase materials such as soils, rock, composites or living tissues. Geomechanics is the branch of mechanics in that response and instability of such porous materials are studied under external loadings such as earthquakes, waves, varying heads of flow during various drainage conditions etc. Among those effects, earthquakes constitute a significant part of the design of geo-engineering systems. Geotechnical considerations are particularly important in identifying the conditions leading to instability of such systems under seismic excitations. Here, seismic soil behaviors are necessary properties to be determined to decide whether there will be permanent damage in foundation soils or...