In recent years, man-made and natural disasters frequently occurred worldwide and resulted in serious damage to engineering structures and substantial casualties. Compared with traditional disaster prevention strategies, the resilient disaster prevention of engineering emphasizes the ability of an engineering system exposed to disasters to resist, absorb and bounce back from the influences of disasters in a prompt and efficient way, which provide a workable solution to disasters with growing dynamics, complexity and uncertainty.

However, the engineering structures have highly nonlinear dynamic interactions with the surroundings on the ground (for instance, soil) they are founded on, which is termed ‘dynamic soil-structure interaction’. Dynamic soil-structure interaction is a complicated interaction process involving both the behavior of structures and the responses of soil. It will be a great challenge, especially for dynamic conditions, to accurately understand the responses of holistic systems by separately analyzing the behaviors of the structures or soil. Therefore, it is crucial for resilient disaster prevention of engineering to consider the dynamic soil-structure interaction during analysis and design, which will greatly enhance their performance and minimize their failure risk in the face of serious disasters.

This Special Issue is committed to breaking through the limitations of traditional disaster prevention research, taking resilient disaster prevention of engineering as the basic entry point and particularly stressing dynamic soil-structure interaction to reach a better understanding and develop designs and methodologies. Hence, original research related to the conceptual or theoretical schemes of resilient disaster prevention of engineering, experimental and numerical research on soil-structure interaction in model or field scale are especially welcomed. In additional to these main topics, we also encourage the submission of review articles to summarize the current state of the art in this topic. This Special Issue will have an impact on academia, industry and policymakers to develop advanced disaster prevention strategies.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Concept of resilient disaster prevention of engineering
• Recovery model of structures after disasters
• Resilience-based design methods
• Disaster risk assessment and management
• Uncertainty analysis and quantification for disasters
• Constitutive behavior of soil-structure interfaces
• Novel coupling strategies for soil-structure interaction
• Advancements in laboratory and field testing of soil-structure interaction
• Artificial intelligence for soil-structure interaction
• Novel numerical methods for soil-structure interaction