Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Structural Engineering International
For a Special Issue on
Climate Change on Infrastructures: Effects, Standardisation and Adaptation
Manuscript deadline
Special Issue Editor(s)
Helder Sousa,
University of Minho, Portugal
sousa.hms@gmail.com
Prof. Alan O'Connor, OCONNOAJ@tcd.ie
Prof. Edgar Emilio Bastidas Arteaga , ebastida@univ-lr.fr
Climate Change on Infrastructures: Effects, Standardisation and Adaptation
IABSE TG6.1 (https://iabse.org/TG6.1) is investigating the effects of climate change on infrastructures with specific focus on: (i) the main effects of climate change and their consequences on structural performance, in the context of evolving loads, load frequencies or loading scenarios, (ii) mitigation and remediation solutions to enhance resilience of infrastructures to extreme weather events in the short, medium and long-term, (iii) decision making under a changing climate: the development of cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment methodologies, engineering design, asset management, optimization under uncertainty and (iv) evolution of design, assessment and maintenance standards and recommendations.
Themes to be addressed in the full paper for SEI journal:
We extend an invitation to academics and professionals to contribute their valuable insights in areas such as:
- Modelling and assessing climate change impacts on structures
- Assessing criticality, severity, vulnerability
- Risk and Resilience modelling and assessment
- Revision of design and assessment standards
- Formulating and optimising adaptation measures
- Incorporating uncertainty in the above mentioned areas
- State-of-the art reviews in the above mentioned areas
Submission Instructions
Timelines, Guidelines and and Where to Submit:
Full paper submission: August 20, 2025
Publication online and print: SEI May 2026 (TBC)
SEI Author Guidelines and SEI Template for writing a paper (link) further information (link).
Please submit your paper here and tag the special issue: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sei.
Note: Policy on overlapping conference / journal submissions
Structural Engineering International’s policy on overlapping submissions is as follows:
Same paper which was submitted in a Conference cannot be submitted to SEI. The paper submitted to SEI, should enhance the idea, with more research results (experimental, theoretical, or numerical results), new text, enhanced reference list and new figures. The author is responsible for acquiring copyrights for republishing in SEI from the first publisher (upon acceptance of the SEI paper).
During your submission of SEI paper, also please upload the conference paper (accepted or submitted) along with a cover letter explaining current status of the Conference paper. The Editorial Board, shall refer to the Conference paper during initial review of the SEI paper, before sending it out for review.
Organizers and Chief Reviewers: Prof. Alan O’Connor (Chair of TG6.1) and Prof. Emilio Bastidas-Arteaga (Vice chair of TG6.1), Helder Sousa (SEI Editorial Board), from IABSE www.iabse.org.