This Frontiers Research Topic highlights cross-scale approaches that link infrastructure condition sensing, multi-scale simulation, and resilience prediction from single assets to urban systems — data-driven and interdisciplinary studies that support measurable resilience planning, risk reduction, and recovery in complex city environments.
Frontiers in Built Environment
Structural Sensing, Control and Asset Management
Call open manuscript summaries & full submissions
Urban resilience increasingly depends on connected infrastructure networks and socio-technical systems. As cities face growing natural and human-induced hazards, there is a stronger need to evaluate how infrastructure performance affects safety, service continuity, economic stability, and community well-being.
Recent progress in structural sensing, inspection, data fusion, and predictive modeling enables resilience assessment across multiple spatial scales, from components and structures to networked systems and city-level operations. This topic encourages methods and applications that bridge these scales.
Contributions are expected to provide methodological innovation, analytical clarity, or practical implementation value for resilience-informed decision-making in urban environments.
This Research Topic accepts multiple manuscript formats (unless otherwise specified by Frontiers), including the following:
Accepted papers undergo peer review and are subject to Frontiers publication fees (charged to authors, institutions, or funders as applicable). Manuscripts can be submitted to this Research Topic via the main journal or other participating journals — please consult the official page for the most current policy and fee details.
8 July 2026
30 October 2026
Boqiang Xu City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Chao Liu Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Mingkai Li National University of Singapore, Singapore
Qian-Cheng Wang City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Hongyuan Guo The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
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