CALLFOR PAPERS

Risk-targeted seismic design: prospects, applications, and open

issues, for the next generation of building codes
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (EESD) dedicates selected issues of the Journal, normally no more than one
or two issues a year, to special topics. 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), (b) invited State‐of‐
the‐Art or review papers, (c) opinions, and (d) technical notes, as deemed appropriate for the topic. The Editorial Board
encourages the submission of manuscripts that address the following areas: basic research papers that advance and/or address
open issues about 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. On these, premises, we are pleased to announce a Special Issue dedicated to risk-targeted
seismic design, with Professor Iunio Iervolino (EESD editorial board member) as the Guest Editor.
Failure-risk-based design has been invoked as the desired landing of seismic codes since more than fifty years now. On one
hand, it has been missed, as most of codes worldwide are still based on the seismic adaptation of load-resistance factor design,
the limits of which are known. On the other hand, research is increasingly proposing results about risk-targeted design,
suggesting it as a now-viable approach to earthquake engineering practice. The objective of this Special Issue is to be a venue
to: evaluate the state-of-the art of research about risk-targeted design, present new results and advancements or extensions, to
set objectives and propose calibration for application-ready use, and finally discuss open issues. It is expected the special issue
be a reference on the subject of risk-targeted design; therefore, the impact of the submitted contributions should be large, on the
conceptual or on the seismic design practice side. Examples of topics include the following:
• state-of-the art and vision on the future of risk-targeted design;
• methodologies for reliability-targeted design;
• methodologies for loss-targeted design;
• methodologies for resilience-targeted design;
• methodologies for risk-targeted design for non-structural elements, components and content;
• methodologies for risk-targeted assessment and retrofit of existing structures;
• performance objectives for risk-targeted design;
• calibration of risk-targeted approaches in building codes;
• issues in the application of risk-targeted design in codes;
• seismic hazard and ground motion for risk-targeted design;
• damage accumulation and risk-targeted design;
• lifecycle and risk-targeted design;
• risk-targeted design for non-building-like structures;
• risk-targeted design considering cascading/domino effects;
• risk-targeted design in a multi-hazard/multi-risk environment;
• risk-targeted design for infrastructure and structure portfolios; and
• geotechnical risk-targeted design.

Contributed papers for this Special Issue should be submitted to Wiley using the online system:
https://wiley.atyponrex.com/dashboard?siteName=EQE. Prior to submitting your article, please read the Author Guidelines.
The deadline for submission of manuscripts is August 31, 2022.
Iunio Iervolino
Masayoshi Nakashima