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Maintaining critical infrastructure resilience to natural hazards during the COVID-19 pandemic: hurricane preparations by US energy companies

The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to compromise the ability of critical infrastructure utilities to respond to or mitigate natural hazards like wildfires and hurricanes. This article describes the ways t...

Authors: Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Ismael Arciniegas Rueda, Jonathon Monken, Jay Liu and Hong Chen

Investigation of Pindan soil modified with polymer stablisers for road pavement

Road failures are often caused by structural weaknesses, and particularly unsealed roads are vulnerable to water as water easily flows into road structures. Moisture susceptibility of materials is an important...

Authors: Hyun Kyu Park, Hyuk Lee and Vanissorn Vimonsatit

Resilience modeling concepts in transportation systems: a comprehensive review based on mode, and modeling techniques

The objective of this comprehensive review study was to compile a state-of-the-art understanding of the resilience of the transportation system due to natural and man-made disasters. This study identified resi...

Authors: Shofiq Ahmed and Kakan Dey

Mechanism of corrosion protection in chloride solution by an apple-based green inhibitor: experimental and theoretical studies

Preservation of metals in infrastructures and other assets requires cost-effective and sustainable solutions such as green corrosion inhibitors. This study assesses an apple pomace-derived green inhibitor synt...

Authors: Mehdi Honarvar Nazari, Mehdi Salih Shihab, Eden Adele Havens and Xianming Shi

Characterization of vulnerability of road networks to fluvial flooding using SIS network diffusion model

This study aims to characterize the vulnerability of road networks to fluvial flooding using a network diffusion-based method. Various network diffusion models have been applied widely for modeling the spreadi...

Authors: Bahrulla Abdulla, Amin Kiaghadi, Hanadi S. Rifai and Bjorn Birgisson

Deterioration mechanism of steam-cured concrete subjected to coupled environmental acid and drying action

In order to investigate the deterioration mechanism of steam-cured concrete under severe environmental actions such as acid rain corrosion, salt corrosion, and cyclic thermal loading, accelerated corrosion tes...

Authors: Guangcheng Long, Youjun Xie, Zhiyu Luo, Lu Qu, John L. Zhou and Wengui Li

A survey on the influence of intense rainfall induced by climate warming on operation safety and service life of urban asphalt pavement

Intense rainfall induced by climate warming is causing more common extreme meteorological events such as urban waterlogging in recent years. The urban waterlogging often has a wide-ranged severe impact on urba...

Authors: Wentao Wang, Linbing Wang, Yinghao Miao, Chunru Cheng and Shiwu Chen

Risk-based cost-benefit analysis of climate adaptation measures for Australian contemporary houses under extreme winds

Climate adaptation measures improve housing resilience to extreme winds, and reduce economic losses associated with wind and rainfall damage under a changing climate. Several adaptation measures are adopted in...

Authors: Hao Qin and Mark G. Stewart

Fatigue life prediction of pipeline with equivalent initial flaw size using Bayesian inference method

Majority of pipeline infrastructure are old and susceptible to possible catastrophic failures due to fatigue. Timely maintenance is the key to keep pipeline in serviceable and safe condition. This paper propos...

Authors: Milad Salemi and Hao Wang

Foreword from the editor-in-chief: the inaugural issue of journal of infrastructure preservation and resilience

Authors: Xianming Shi