Special Issue on ‘<i>Nonlinear Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation for Earthquake Engineering</i>’ <i>Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (EQE)</i>

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics dedicates selected issues of the Journal, normally no more than one issue a year, to a special topic. The Special Issue publication is attractive to authors as well as readers. To researchers and practicing professionals it provides a forum to present their work in a publication of related papers on one subject. To readers it provides a comprehensive view of a timely subject in one venue. Each Special Issue normally consists of (a) original papers (submitted in response to a Call for Papers) and (b) an invited state of the art or review paper, as deemed appropriate for the topic. The Editorial Board encourages the submission of manuscripts that address the following areas: basic research papers that advance fundamental knowledge of the subject; applied research papers that extend and re-interpret existing results, and then present these results in a form suitable for use in engineering practice; and papers that report on applications of research to solve practical problems. A Guest Editor, appointed for each Special Issue, reviews the contributed papers, with the advice and assistance of other reviewers. We are pleased to announce plans for a Special Issue to be dedicated to Nonlinear Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation for Earthquake Engineering, with Professor Gregory L. Fenves as the Guest Editor. The objectives of the special issue on nonlinear modeling, analysis, and simulation for earthquake engineering are to present the state of the art in advanced methods for estimating the response and performance of structural systems in earthquakes, highlight recent research that is advancing the field, and identify future trends in methods of analysis that may be used in the engineering profession. In recent years, there has been new research in simulation methods for performance-based earthquake engineering, new experiments on components and systems, a rapid increase in computing power, including high-performance computing, and new software frameworks for simulation, all of which are advancing the state of the art in modeling, analysis, and simulation. Suitable topics for papers in the special issue may include advanced models and applications to simulation of structures, verification and validation of models, simulation over the range of structural response from damage to collapse, modeling and analysis of nonlinear soil–structure–foundation interaction, computational reliability of structural systems, computational methods and algorithms, and high-performance computing for earthquake engineering simulation. Contributed papers for this Special Issue should be submitted to Wiley using the online system (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/eqe) with Anil K. Chopra designated as the Editor, who will provide administrative support to the Guest Editor. The deadline for submission of manuscripts is 31 May 2008. Papers received after the deadline will be considered if space and time permits.