About this journal

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering - Maintenance, Management, Life-Cycle Design and Performance is an international Journal dedicated to recent advances in maintenance, management and life-cycle performance of a wide range of infrastructures, such as: buildings, bridges, dams, railways, underground constructions, offshore platforms, pipelines, naval vessels, ocean structures, nuclear power plants, airplanes and other types of structures including aerospace and automotive structures.

The Journal presents research and developments on the most advanced technologies for analyzing, predicting and optimizing infrastructure performance. The main gaps to be filled are those between researchers and practitioners in maintenance, management and life-cycle performance of infrastructure systems, and those between professionals working on different types of infrastructures. To this end, the journal will provide a forum for a broad blend of scientific, technical and practical papers. The journal is endorsed by the International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering ( IALCCE) and the International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety ( IABMAS).

The scope of the Journal encompasses, but is not restricted to:

· mathematical modelling

· computer and experimental methods

· practical infrastructure applications in the areas of assessment and evaluation

· construction and design for durability

· decision making

· deterioration modelling and aging

· failure analysis

· field testing

· financial planning

· sustainability, inspection and diagnostics

· life-cycle analysis and prediction

· loads

· maintenance strategies

· management systems

· non-destructive testing

· monitoring, optimization of maintenance and management

· specifications and codes

· time- dependent performance

· rehabilitation, repair, replacement

· reliability and risk management

· service life prediction

· strengthening

· resilience and whole life costing

Papers considered for publication are original, high-quality papers that form a significant contribution to the theory or practice of infrastructure engineering, present state-of-the-art work on a topic related to infrastructure, or describe a case study in which theory is applied to a significant infrastructure problem.

All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees. All peer review is single anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Dan M. Frangopol
The Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Center for Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems (ATLSS Center), 117 ATLSS Drive, Imbt Labs, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015-4729
USA
[email protected], http://www.lehigh.edu/~dmf206/

TECHNICAL EDITOR
Yiannis Tsompanakis
Technical University of Crete, Chania
Greece
[email protected]

MANAGING EDITOR - Americas and Rest of World
Michel Ghosn
The City College of New York, New York, NY
USA
[email protected]

MANAGING EDITOR - Europe
Joan R. Casas
Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona
Spain
[email protected]

MANAGING EDITORS - Asia and Pacific
Hitoshi Furuta
Kansai University, Osaka
Japan
[email protected]

Mitsuyoshi Akiyama
Waseda University, Tokyo
Japan
[email protected]

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Sreenivas Alampalli - Stantec, Albany, NY, USA
Swagata Basu - Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Fabio Biondini - Technical University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Eugen Brühwiler - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
F. Necati Catbas - University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Airong Chen - Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Jianbing Chen - Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Marios K. Chryssanthopoulos - University of Surrey, Surrey, UK
Matthew Collette - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Paulo J.S. Cruz - University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal
George Deodatis - Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Sofia M.C. Diniz - Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
David De Leon Escobedo - Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, Estado de México, México
Armen Der Kiureghian - University of California, Berkeley, USA
Allen C. Estes - California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
Paolo Gardoni - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
Roger Ghanem - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Paul E. Hess III - Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA, USA
Ahsan Kareem - University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
Sunyong Kim - Wonkwang University, Iksan, Jeonbuk, South Korea
Anne S. Kiremidjian - Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Hyun-Moo Koh - Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Chun-Qing Li - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Eva Lantsoght - Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
Jerome Lynch - Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Kurt Maute - University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Torgeir Moan - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Jamie Padgett - Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Mauricio Sánchez-Silva - Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
Anastasios Sextos - University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
John D. Sørensen - University of Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark
Mark G. Stewart - University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia
Zhishen Wu - Ibaraki University, Hitachi, Japan
Victor Yepes - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Tao Yu - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

Eleni Chatzi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland
[email protected]

ADVISORY BOARD
Alfredo H-S. Ang - University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Fernando A.B. Branco- Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Dan Dubina - Politehnica University Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
Bruce R. Ellingwood - Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, USA
Luis Esteva - National University of Mexico, Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Yozo Fujino - Josai University, Saitama, Japan
Mircea D. Grigoriu - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Ho-Kyung Kim - Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Sami F. Masri - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Aftab A. Mufti - University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Andrzej S. Nowak - Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
Kok-Kwang Phoon - National University of Singapore, Singapore
Mark Sarkisan - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, CA, USA
Richard Sause - Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA
Pol D. Spanos - Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Man-Chung Tang - T.Y. Lin International, San Francisco, CA, USA
Jin-Guang Teng - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Paul D. Thompson - Bellevue, WA, USA
A.C.W.M. Vrouwenvelder - TNO Built Environment and Geosciences, Delft, The Netherlands
Eiichi Watanabe - Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Bojidar S. Yanev - New York City Department of Transportation, New York, NY, USA

News, offers and calls for papers

News and offers

• Khan Lecture Series at Lehigh University
• Special subscription rate for members of IABMAS and IALCCE
• Structures and Infrastructures Book Series

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering is affiliated with the  International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE) and the International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety.

Members of the following groups can receive an individual print subscription to Structure and Infrastructure Engineering at a special society member rate. Please see the pricing or subscribe page for details.

• International Association of Life-Cycle Civil Engineering
• International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety