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Journal of Infrastructure Preservation and Resilience welcomes collections on articles relating to the discussion of cross-disciplinary and innovative research and engineering practices that preserve the integrity, performance, and resilience of existing infrastructure systems. The journal enthusiastically invites authors to submit their applicable work to our collections which have an ongoing call for papers.

Collections with ongoing calls for papers are listed below:

Sociotechnical Perspectives to Infrastructure Resilience
Edited by: Aaron Clark-Ginsberg and Ji Yun Lee

Risk Based GeoEngineering Design: Prediction, Assessment, and Mitigation
Edited by: Xiong (Bill) Yu, Zhaohui (Joey) Yang, and Jiankun Liu

Pavement Preservation and Resilience: Strategies and Innovative Technologies
Edited by: Yinghao Miao and Zejiao Dong


Best Paper Award 2022

JIPR’s Best Paper of 2022 has been awarded to:
'Inspecting the corrosion state of underground reinforced concrete structures'.

The journal proudly recognizes and congratulates the authors on their outstanding work:
Patrick Pfändler, Lukas Bircher & Ueli Angst 

Articles

Sociotechnical Perspectives to Infrastructure Resilience
Edited by: Aaron Clark-Ginsberg and Ji Yun Lee

Risk Based GeoEngineering Design: Prediction, Assessment, and Mitigation
Edited by: Xiong (Bill) Yu, Zhaohui (Joey) Yang, Jiankun Liu

Pavement Preservation and Resilience: Strategies and Innovative Technologies
Edited by: Yinghao Miao and Zejiao Dong

BEI 2019
Edited by: Yail Jimmy Kim, Isamu Yoshitake, Vanissorn Vimonsatit, Xuhui He, and Yongcheng Ji.

Editors

Editor-in-Chief
Xianming  Shi, Washington State University, USA

Associate Editors
Aaron Clark-Ginsberg , RAND Corporation, USA
Yi-Qiu Tan, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Dawei Wang, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

View our full Editorial Board here

Aims and scope

Journal of Infrastructure Preservation and Resilience (JIPR) provides a cross-disciplinary forum for researchers to disseminate innovative research and engineering practices that preserve the integrity, performance, and resilience of existing infrastructure systems amid diverse climatic conditions, man-made and natural hazards, and other risks. Planning, design, construction, operations, inspection, monitoring, evaluation, retrofitting and reinforcing of infrastructure system (roads, bridges, tunnels, buildings, airports, ports, pipelines, etc.) are in scope with the journal. The journal aims to facilitate the dialogue and collaboration between infrastructure engineering community and resilience and risk management community.  

Topics of interest may include the following:

  • Preservation and monitoring against foundational risks of infrastructures (e.g. bridge scour and slope instability)
  • Preservation and rehabilitation against infrastructure materials-related distresses (corrosion, freeze/thaw damage, alkali-aggregate reactions, cracking, rutting, aging, moisture damage, etc.)
  • Infrastructure system response and resilience (e.g., adaptation to disasters, climate change and extreme weather): robustness and post-hazard recovery, resource allocation, and social technical or system-oriented aspect of resilience
  • Decision support and asset management (e.g., data modelling and resilience assessment, risk assessment, life cycle assessment, life cycle cost analysis, characterization/modelling of interdependencies)
  • Design and in-service performance of advanced infrastructure materials and structures
  • Remote sensing, online monitoring, and non-destructive evaluation of infrastructures
  • Structural reliability and safety
  • Transportation geotechnics and geoecology

Featured Article:

"Investigation into corrosion-induced bond degradation between concrete and steel rebar with acoustic emission and 3D laser scan techniques"

Corrosion-induced bond degradation of deformed steel rebar in concrete is experimentally investigated with acoustic emission (AE) and 3D laser scan technique. Concrete specimens were fabricated and subjected to direct pullout test after being corroded to different levels. 

Read the full article here.

Find all of JIPR's previous featured articles here.

Top 10 Downloaded Articles in 2022

We want to thank the authors of our most downloaded articles in 2022 and highlight to our readers some of the most impactful research to have published in the journal. We hope that you will find the data interesting!

A survey on the influence of intense rainfall induced by climate warming on operation safety and service life of urban asphalt pavement
Authors: Wentao Wang, Linbing Wang, Yinghao Miao, Chunru Cheng & Shiwu Chen

Probability assessment of slope instability in seasonally cold regions under climate change
Authors: Yulong Zhu, Tatsuya Ishikawa, Tomohito J. Yamada & Srikrishnan Siva Subramanian  

Machine learning model and strategy for fast and accurate detection of leaks in water supply network
Authors: Xudong Fan, Xijin Zhang & Xiong (Bill) Yu

Resilience modeling concepts in transportation systems: a comprehensive review based on mode, and modeling techniques
Authors: Shofiq Ahmed & Kakan Dey

Fatigue life prediction of pipeline with equivalent initial flaw size using Bayesian inference method
Authors: Milad Salemi & Hao Wang

Mechanism of corrosion protection in chloride solution by an apple-based green inhibitor: experimental and theoretical studies
Authors: Mehdi Honarvar Nazari, Mehdi Salih Shihab, Eden Adele Havens & Xianming Shi

Review of porous asphalt pavements in cold regions: the state of practice and case study repository in design, construction, and maintenance
Authors: Kun Zhang & John Kevern

Ultrasonic pitch and catch technique for non-destructive testing of reinforced concrete slabs
Authors: Wael A. Zatar, Hai D. Nguyen & Hien M. Nghiem

Value of information analysis in civil and infrastructure engineering: a review
Authors: Wei-Heng Zhang, Da-Gang Lu, Jianjun Qin, Sebastian Thöns & Michael Havbro Faber

Coastal green infrastructure to mitigate coastal squeeze
Authors: Valeria Chávez, Debora Lithgow, Miguel Losada & Rodolfo Silva-Casarin

2022 Most Cited Papers

Carbon-based nanomaterials engineered cement composites: a review
Authors: Dong Lu & Jing Zhong

Atomistic-scale investigation of self-healing mechanism in Nano-silica modified asphalt through molecular dynamics simulation
Authors: Zhengwu Long, Xianqiong Tang, Nanning Guo, Yanhuai Ding, Wenbo Ma, Lingyun You & Fu Xu

An Interview with the Editor

eic_shixianming"JIPR aims to become the flagship journal in the field of infrastructure preservation and resilience (IPR), providing a cross-disciplinary forum for researchers to disseminate innovative research and engineering practices that preserve the integrity, performance, and resilience of infrastructure systems." 

- Xianming  Shi, Washington State University, USA

Read the full interview here, where Editor Shi goes into detail regarding his educational and professional background, the inspiration and reasoning to launch this cross-disciplinary scholarly discussion platform, and the long term goals for the journal. 

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2022 Journal Metrics

  • Speed
    22 days to first decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    30 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only (Median)

    Usage 
    76,731 downloads (2022)

    Social Media Impact
    35 Altmetric mentions (2022)