The International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE) was founded in 2006 to support this challenge and to create a fertile ground for promoting the study, research, and applications in the design, assessment, prediction, and optimal management of life-cycle performance, safety, reliability and risk of civil structures and infrastructure systems (http://www.ialcce.org). To accomplish this mission and following a series of International Workshops on Life‐Cycle Cost Analysis and Design of Civil Infrastructure Systems held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (LCC1, 2000), Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan (LCC2, 2001), Lausanne, Switzerland (LCC3, 2003), Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA (LCC4, 2005), and Seoul, Korea (LCC5, 2006), it was decided to bring together the main advances on life-cycle civil engineering and related topics at the First International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE’08), held in Varenna, Lake Como, Italy, 10–14 June 2008 (http://www.ialcce08.org), and afterwards at the Second International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2010), held in Taipei, Taiwan, 27–31 October, 2010 (http://www.ialcce2010.ntust.edu.tw), the Third International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2012), held at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria, 3–6 October, 2012 (http://www.ialcce2012.org), and the Fourth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2014), held in Tokyo Japan, 16–19 November, 2014 (http://www.ialcce2014.org). IALCCE 2014 has been organised on behalf of the IALCCE under the auspices of Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. The interest of the international civil engineering community in areas covered by the IALCCE has been confirmed by the significant response to the IALCCE2014 call for papers. In fact, 436 abstracts from 44 countries were received by the Symposium Secretariat, and approximately 75% of them were selected for publication. Contributions presented at IALCCE2014 include state-of-the-art as well as emerging applications related to key aspects of the life-cycle civil engineering field.
The extended versions of selected papers presented at IALCCE 2014 and invited contributions are included in this special issue of Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. Sarkisian introduces new ideas to improve the seismic performance of buildings. Welsh-Huggins and Liel present a framework to assess the building life-cycle in terms of social, environmental, and economic impacts using probabilistic approaches. Yokota discusses the framework of the life-cycle management system for shore protection facilities. Wang et al. propose a maintenance framework for a shield tunnel. Rao et al. in two sequential papers propose a simplified structural deterioration model for reinforced concrete bridge piers under cyclic loading and develop time-dependent fragility functions for deteriorating structures. Kobayashi and Kaito present a big data-based deterioration prediction model and infrastructure management. Biondini and Frangopol investigate failure loads and failure times of concrete structures exposed to corrosion and propose life-cycle performance indicators related to redundancy and elapsed times between sequential failures. Lin et al. investigate after-fracture redundancy of truss bridges through a case study of a five-span continuous truss bridge in Japan. Lim et al. investigate the spatial variability of the steel weight loss and corrosion cracking of RC members using X-ray photograms. Ožbolt et al. present the coupled 3D chemo-hygro-thermo-mechanical model for numerical analysis of non-mechanical and mechanical processes related to the corrosion of steel reinforcement in concrete. Kim and Frangopol present a novel approach to multi-objective optimisation process of probabilistic service life management. Dong and Frangopol present an integrated probabilistic framework for the healthcare - bridge network system performance analysis considering spatial seismic hazard, vulnerability of bridges and links in the network, and damage condition of a hospital at component and system levels. Koh et al. present a reliability-based design framework for accidental loads based on findings and outcomes of recent research efforts on bridge designs under ship-collision risk. Sykora et al. discuss the target reliability for existing structures considering economic and societal aspects. Finally, Klis and Chatzi propose a novel data compression framework for wireless sensor networks and present a case study to demonstrate the ability of the proposed scheme to efficiently detect structural modes.
The guest editors thank the authors and the reviewers for contributing to this special issue and hope that this collection of papers will represent a useful reference for researchers, students, and practitioners to promote and advance research and applications in the field of life-cycle civil engineering.
Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
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Mitsuyoshi Akiyama
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
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