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Submit Paper » Background This Special Collection (SC) aims to provide a dedicated space for in-depth exploration and dissemination of advancements in vulnerability analysis, risk management, and uncertainty modeling. The primary goal of this SC is to feature emerging developments, which address hazards, risks and respective mitigation strategies towards resilience and sustainability of our infrastructure systems and the built environment. The contributions are supposed to provide key ideas, concepts and technologies to solve major challenges concerned with the high complexity and the multi-disciplinary character of the problems as well as with the comprehensive quantification, efficient processing and management of the involved uncertainties. By establishing this SC, we aim to foster a collaborative environment that encourages researchers to contribute high-quality works, sharing insights and innovations in the multifaceted fields of risk, uncertainty, and decision-making. ...

Submit Paper » Background The reliability of civil engineering structures is paramount for sustainable and resilient infrastructure. Ensuring robust behavior, particularly in the face of extreme events, is crucial for longevity and adaptability. This Special Collection focuses on a pivotal aspect of structural resilience: the control of vibrations, specifically addressing uncertainties. Scholars are invited to contribute original research papers exploring the nuanced interplay between vibration control and broader resilient civil engineering structures. This thematic issue serves as a guide for risk and reliability analysis, emphasizing the vital role of vibration control devices in reinforcing stability amidst uncertainty. ...

Submit Paper » Background Understanding the data and reaching accurate conclusions are of paramount importance in the present era of Big Data. Machine learning has been widely used in academia and industry to analyze voluminous and intricate datasets to uncover hidden patterns and reach incisive insights. Whilst machine learning approaches have extraordinary potential and are increasingly employed to aid in various complicated tasks, their results are not wholly reliable due to the challenges introduced by data uncertainty (aleatory uncertainty) and model uncertainty (epistemic uncertainty). It is essential to accommodate uncertainties and provide uncertainty estimates to uncover beneficial information for a better decision-making process. To this end, the development and application of novel uncertainty quantification methods in tandem with different machine-learning-enhanced techniques are crucial to yield useful information and amplify the interpretability and reliability of the results. With this in mind, this SC will gather contributions presenting state-of-the-art breakthroughs in uncertainty quantification for machine learning. ...

Submit Paper » In recent decades, fault diagnostics and failure prognostics have demonstrated their great potential for health monitoring and risk management of complex engineering systems, including smart factories, power plants, space systems, and heavy equipment. The credibility and applicability of fault diagnostics and failure prognostics, however, are significantly affected by various uncertainties, such as model uncertainty, data uncertainty, process uncertainty, environmental uncertainty, and the inherent uncertainty of engineered systems. Therefore, accurately quantifying the effects of these uncertainties is essential and one of the most widely-held concerns to ensure trustworthy decision-making based on diagnostic and prognostic results. The purpose of this special issue is to present the latest advancements in the field of uncertainty-aware diagnostics and prognostics for the health management of engineered systems. ...

Please find attached the Call for Papers for the Special Collection on Non-Deterministic Model Updating and Structural Health Monitoring for Existing Structures. Click to download the CFP Submit Paper » Guest Editors Masaru Kitahara, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, kitahara@bridge.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Sifeng Bi, Lecturer, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyde, sifeng.bi@strath.ac.uk Matteo Broggi, Deputy Head, Institute for Risk and Reliability, Leibniz University Hannover, broggi@irz.uni-hannover.de Takayuki Shuku, Associate Professor, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Environmental Management Program, Okayama University, shuku@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp Aims & Scope This Special Collection (SC) aims to gather contributions presenting the state-of-the-art on uncertainty analysis in model updating and structural health monitoring (SHM) for existing structures. Over the past few decades, civil infrastructures have been aging in many countries, and more and more infrastructures are being assessed as structurally deficient. Such structural deficiencies in key infrastructures come with massive consequences such as structural failures and even human deaths. The development of a framework for the safe operation and maintenance of infrastructures is thus required. To this end, SHM has attracted increasing attention in recent years, aiming at condition assessment and service life monitoring of existing structures, often on the basis of structural vibration data. SHM strategies can be mainly classified into two categories, i.e., model-based and data-driven methods. Model-based SHM employs physics-based models in combination with inverse analysis techniques to infer a set of model parameters, such that the best possible fit is gained between model outputs and measurements. This approach is generally referred to as model updating. Data-driven SHM, on the other hand, only exploits the monitoring data without use of physics-based models to infer structural condition. This approach is often rooted in signal processing, pattern recognition or machine learning techniques. Regardless of whether model-based or data-driven approach is used, uncertainties are practically inevitable in both the measuring and modeling processes due to very limited number of sensors, variation in environmental and operational conditions, simplification and approximation of complex physical behavior, and so on. Uncertainties may cause large deviations in model updating and SHM results and thus need to be appropriately dealt with by non-deterministic approaches, i.e., either probabilistic or non-probabilistic approaches. Considering the above issues, this SC reports the latest advances and challenges related to uncertainty analysis in model updating and SHM, encompassing not only the theoretical and computational aspects but also the practical and application aspects, especially for large-scale civil infrastructures. The concept of model updating and health monitoring have been widely accepted and used in many different fields such as geotechnical engineering, and the scope of this SC is not limited to structural engineering. ...

Please find attached the Call for Papers for the Special Collection on Resilience of Power Infrastructure System. Click to download the CFP Guest Editors Wei Zhang, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut, wzhang@uconn.edu Ge (Gaby) Ou, Assistant Professor, University of Florida, gaby.ou@essie.ufl.edu Youngjib Ham, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, yham@tamu.edu Zongjie Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, zongjie.wang@uconn.edu Aims & Scope Extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, droughts, and flooding, are expected to be more “common” under a more variable climate system. With threats from stronger hurricanes, wildfires, snowstorms, etc., power infrastructure systems are experiencing critical threats, leading to many community residents and industrial facilities without power for days, weeks or longer. With the interdependency with other infrastructure systems, such as the communication, water, and transportation systems, the damages or failures of critical components of power infrastructure system could potentially create cascading effects and create disastrous damages to communities, which might take years to recover. The main objective of this special collection is to bring together researchers working on different aspects of the resilience of power infrastructure systems. State-of- the-art knowledge and expertise from the researcher, engineers, operators, and owners are expected to be synthesized to enhance the resilience of power infrastructure systems when confronting extreme weather events in their life cycles. ...

Please find attached the Call for Papers for the Special Collection on New Technologies in Risk Assessment of Maritime Transport. Click to download the CFP Guest Editors Qing Yu, Jimei University, China, qing.yu@jmu.edu.cn Jakub Montewka, Gdansk University of Technology, jakub.montewka@pg.edu.pl Floris Goerlandt, Dalhousie University, Canada, floris.goerlandt@dal.ca Chengpeng Wan, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, cpwan@whut.edu.cn Zhisen Yang, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, China, yangzhisen@sztu.edu.cn Zaili Yang, Liverpool John Moores University, UK, z.yang@ljmu.ac.uk Aims & Scope Motivated by the transition of trading demands in context of ongoing economic developments, the shipping industry is of rising importance from both national and international perspectives. However, maritime transport still suffers various risks due to emerging technological development (e.g., autonomous ships), new hazards/threats (e.g., climate change, cybersecurity, and COVID-19), foci evolution from local to network levels (e.g., impact of Suez Canal blockage to supply chains), and new and emergent transportation routes (e.g. Arctic shipping). The continued need for focus on maritime risks is evident also from several accidents which have occurred in the past years. Although various studies have been conducted in assessing risks associated with marine systems, remaining challenges involve comprehensive maritime risk modelling in the abovementioned emerging aspects. This requires focused attention and continued work in the academic field, as only limited research can be found in the relevant literature. ...

Please find attached the Call for Papers for the Special Issue on Probabilistic Digital Twins in Additive Manufacturing. Click to download the CFP Guest Editors Zequn Wang, Assistant Professor, Michigan Technological University, USA, zequnw@mtu.edu Zhen Hu, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA, zhennhu@umich.edu Moon Seung Ki, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, skmoon@ntu.edu.sg Hong-Zhong Huang, Professor, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China, hzhuang@uestc.edu.cn Qi Zhou, Associate Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, qizhou@hust.edu.cn Aims & Scope Additive manufacturing (AM) has made enormous progress over the past decade, as it is capable of producing complex parts with significantly less fabrication constraints compared to existing manufacturing technologies over a broad dimensional scale. Complicated AM process variability is one of the greatest obstacles in performance evaluation and quality control of additively manufactured materials and products, and thus hinders widespread implementation of AM techniques. Digital twin, as a digital replica of a production system or process, has great potential in overcoming quality variability and reliability issues in AM processes. With the development of probabilistic digital twins in AM and uncertainty management techniques, it becomes possible to reduce the computational burden for multi-scale modeling and realize reliable AM processes by taking advantage of large volumes of in situ sensor data to optimize process parameters, detect, and prevent process faults. ...

Please find attached the Call for Papers for the Special Issue on Modeling and Analysis of Inspection Uncertainties in Structural Health Monitoring. Click to download the CFP Guest Editors Yi Zhang, Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, zhang-yi@tsinghua.edu.cn Chul-Woo Kim, Professor, Department of Civil and Earth Resources Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, kim.chulwoo.5u@kyoto-u.ac.jp Yan-Gang Zhao, Professor, Department of Architecture, Kanagawa University, Japan, zhao@kanagawa-u.ac.jp Pei-Pei Li, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, lipeipei626@gmail.com Aims & Scope In recent years, structural health monitoring (SHM) technology has developed rapidly and is now gradually applied to civil, mechanical, automobile, and aerospace engineering practices. One of the most widely-held concerns is to utilize useful information provided by SHM for quantitative assessment of structural health and updating structural models. To accomplish this, inspection or measurement information is gathered through monitoring, followed by a thorough analysis that uses finite element analysis models, mathematical statistics tools, artificial intelligence technologies, or other advanced methods to obtain an objective quantitative assessment of structural health or updating structural models. However, due to uncertainties in mathematical modeling and analysis in SHM, objectives for satisfactory results of the quantitative structural health assessment and structural model updating have not been fully realized in real-world conditions, and many problems still require further research. ...

Please find attached the Call for Papers for the Special Issue on Digital Twins: A New Frontier in Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience. Click to download the CFP Update: Submissions are open until January 31, 2023. Guest Editors Nii Attoh-Okine, PhD, University of Delaware, USA, okine@udel.edu Yaw Adu-Gyamfi, PhD, University of Missouri, USA, adugyamfiy@missouri.edu Aims & Scope A digital twin is a computational model (or set of coupled) that evolves over time to persistently represent the critical structure, its components, system or process. Digital twin underpins intelligent automation by supporting data-driven decision making and enabling asset specific analysis and system behavior. Within the contexts of critical Infrastructure systems, the digital twins represent the flow of information among connected platforms. In the future, as many agencies turn to digital twin capabilities, they have to migrate towards continuous real-time performance models and calibrate by pairing data from real-time sensors, meters, weather, and other data. The digital twin can be used to run “what-if” scenarios, predict and prevent failures, provide early alerts of anomalies and conduct predictive analysis. The strength of a digital twin is the interconnectivity of data and models. The main characteristics of a digital twin are ...