Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, significant advances have been achieved in computational methods used for modeling seismic wave propagation as well as for engineering and scientific applications, such as geomaterial characterization, soil-structure interaction, elastic metamaterials, etc. Depending on the application of interest, the temporal and spatial scales of the simulation, constitutive laws, interface and boundary conditions, and numerical schemes need to be judiciously selected. This Special Issue will publish high-quality, original research papers, in (but not limited to) the overlapping fields of the following computational modeling studies in seismic wave propagation analyses and structural dynamics:

• Numerical methods for solving governing wave physics equations (finite element method, spectral element method, boundary element method, discrete element method, meshfree method);
• Wave-absorbing boundary condition (perfectly matched layers, infinite elements);
• Soil dynamics and/or ground motion simulations;
• Structural dynamics;
• Soil-structure interaction;
• Domain reduction method;
• Simulations of liquefaction and/or waves in poroelastic media;
• Fluid-solid interaction and/or earthquake-induced sloshing;
• Nonlinear dynamics;
• Time-domain or frequency-domain analysis;
• Site characterization and/or inverse problem;
• Probabilistic modeling and/or uncertainty quantification;
• Seismic metamaterial and/or seismic cloaking;
• Seismic analyses of structures (bridges, dams, levees, retaining walls, buildings, tunnels, railroads, etc.);
• Multiphysics simulations for structural characterization;
• Large-scale simulation of seismic wave motion.

Dr. Chanseok Jeong
Dr. Jun Won Kang
Dr. Pranav Karve
Guest Editors

Prof. Dr. Loukas Kallivokas
Advisor

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• computational mechanics
• seismic wave propagation analyses of structures and geomaterials