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Value of information analysis in civil and infrastructure engineering: a review

The concept of Value of Information (VoI) has attracted significant attentions within the civil engineering community over especially the last decade. Triggered by the increasing focus on structural health mon...

Authors: Wei-Heng Zhang, Da-Gang Lu, Jianjun Qin, Sebastian Thöns and Michael Havbro Faber

Water absorptivity and frost resistance performance of self-ignition coal gangue autoclaved aerated concrete

Self-ignition coal gangue (SCG) used as one of precursors to fabricate autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC). Aiming at studying water absorptivity and frost resistance performance of SCG-based AAC (SCGAAC), three...

Authors: Xinyu Cong, Yiqiu Tan, Shuang Lu, Zhaojia Wang and Tianyong Huang

2D-wavelet based micro and macro texture analysis for asphalt pavement under snow or ice condition

In ice and snow weather, the surface texture characteristics of asphalt pavement change, which will significantly affect the skid resistance performance of asphalt pavement. In this study, five asphalt mixture...

Authors: Feng Li, Gulnigar Ablat, Siqi Zhou, Yixin Liu, Yufeng Bi, Zihang Weng and Yuchuan Du

Toward regional hazard risk assessment: a method to geospatially inventory critical coastal infrastructure applied to the Caribbean

Hurricanes and sea level rise pose significant threats to infrastructure and critical services (e.g., air and sea travel, water treatment), and can hinder sustainable development of major economic sectors (e.g...

Authors: Austin Becker, Noah Hallisey and Gerald Bove

The effect of rolling resistance on people’s willingness to cycle during wintertime

Harsh winters reduce utilitarian cycling in many cities. Using an online survey, we examined how increasing rolling resistance due to snow and ice affect people’s cycling willingness. The respondents (N = 1318) r...

Authors: Mathis Dahl Fenre and Alex Klein-Paste

Analysis methodology and assessment indices of vulnerability for asphalt pavement in cold regions

Asphalt pavement structures in cold regions, which suffer from complicated environmental and geological conditions, such as large temperature difference and frozen soil, are prone to cracking, rutting, and moi...

Authors: Tongxu Wang, Xianyong Ma, Huanyu Li and Zejiao Dong

Machine learning model and strategy for fast and accurate detection of leaks in water supply network

The water supply network (WSN) is subjected to leaks that compromise its service to the communities, which, however, is challenging to identify with conventional approaches before the consequences surface. Thi...

Authors: Xudong Fan, Xijin Zhang and Xiong ( Bill) Yu

Petrographically quantifying the damage to field and lab-cast mortars subject to freeze-thaw cycles and deicer application

Although calcium oxychloride (Ca-Oxy) is known to damage cementitious materials exposed to calcium chloride (CaCl₂) deicers, there is little direct observation of Ca-Oxy in the field due to its instability. This ...

Authors: Chunyu Qiao, Nima Hosseinzadeh, Prannoy Suraneni, Sihang Wei and David Rothstein

Permafrost thaw and ground settlement considering long-term climate impact in northern Alaska

Alaska’s North Slope is predicted to experience twice the warming expected globally. When summers are longer and winters are shortened, ground surface conditions in the Arctic are expected to change considerab...

Authors: Zhaohui Joey Yang, Kannon C. Lee and Haibo Liu

Coastal green infrastructure to mitigate coastal squeeze

Infrastructure is necessary to protect and provide the goods and services required by humans. As coastal green infrastructure (CGI) aims to respect and work with natural processes, it is a feasible response to...

Authors: Valeria Chávez, Debora Lithgow, Miguel Losada and Rodolfo Silva-Casarin

Planning considerations of green corridors for the improvement of biodiversity resilience in suburban areas

The world is experiencing a rapid loss in the biodiversity of pollinator insects. Habitat segmentation caused by infrastructures is one of the contributing factors. To improve the habitat connectivity of polli...

Authors: Yuhong Wang, Siqi Jia, Zhe Wang, Yang Chen, Shicong Mo and N. N. Sze

Classification of pavement climatic regions through unsupervised and supervised machine learnings

This study extracted 16 climatic data variables including annual temperature, freeze thaw, precipitation, and snowfall conditions from the Long-term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program database to evaluate the...

Authors: Qiao Dong, Xueqin Chen, Shi Dong and Jun Zhang

Review of porous asphalt pavements in cold regions: the state of practice and case study repository in design, construction, and maintenance

Porous asphalt pavement is a sustainable infrastructure tool used to benefit urban resilience. This paper summarizes the design, construction, and maintenance practices of porous asphalt pavements (PAPs) speci...

Authors: Kun Zhang and John Kevern

Time-dependent reliability of (weighted) k-out-of-n systems with identical component deterioration

The performance of civil infrastructure systems is vital in supporting a community’s functionalities. Reliability assessment of these systems is a powerful approach to evaluate whether the system performance i...

Authors: Cao Wang

Axial compression capacity of concrete columns reinforced with corrosion-resistant metallic reinforcement

Axial compression performance of concrete columns reinforced with 2304 solid stainless bars and spirals, carbon steel bars and spirals, and 316 L stainless steel clad bars is examined after the columns are exp...

Authors: John W. Wright and Chris P. Pantelides

New directions for reinforced concrete coastal structures

Within the last century, coastal structures for infrastructure applications have traditionally been constructed with timber, structural steel, and/or steel-reinforced/prestressed concrete. Given asset owners’ ...

Authors: Steven Nolan, Marco Rossini, Chase Knight and Antonio Nanni

Tensile mechanical properties of fly ash concrete at early age for thermal stress analysis

The present study investigates tensile properties of concrete with and without fly ash at early age, such as tensile Young’s modulus, strength and creep. Some Young’s modulus of fly ash concrete for thermal cr...

Authors: Yoichi Mimura, Vanissorn Vimonsatit, Itaru Horiguchi and Isamu Yoshitake

More than smart pavements: connected infrastructure paves the way for enhanced winter safety and mobility on highways

Currently, there is an urgent demand for more cost-effective, resource-efficient and reliable solutions to address safety and mobility challenges on highways enduring snowy winter weather. To address this pres...

Authors: Xianming Shi

Ultrasonic pitch and catch technique for non-destructive testing of reinforced concrete slabs

This study aims at evaluating reinforced concrete (RC) bridge elements using ultrasonic pitch and catch (UPC) non-destructive testing (NDT) technique. A validation reinforced concrete slab with two embedded la...

Authors: Wael A. Zatar, Hai D. Nguyen and Hien M. Nghiem

Large-scale inflatable structures for tunnel protection: a review of the Resilient Tunnel Plug project

The protection of underground civil infrastructure continues to be a high priority for transportation and transit security agencies. In particular, rail transit tunnels running under bodies of water are suscep...

Authors: Eduardo M. Sosa, Gregory J. Thompson, Gregory M. Holter and John M. Fortune

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