Current Trends in Civil Engineering

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 structural design, the desire to build in new sites with no previous experience of their performance, the interaction of new buildings and infrastructure with their surrounding built environment, as well as energy and transportation networks and offshore wind energy farms [3] are the main areas demanding optimal planning and design strategies. In order to undertake this task, new methods of analysis capable of simulating complicated structural analysis whilst modelling interactions of structures are needed. In effect, advanced computational methods are being developed in Universities and research centers. There is a shift from Finite Elements towards mesh free methods [4,5], while Non-linear constitutive laws are required to simulate material behaviour and new technologies are needed to monitor the structural integrity throughout the structures’ cycle of life [6].

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