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Structural elements undergo multiple levels of damage at various locations due to environments and critical loading conditions. The level of damage and its location can be predicted using acoustic emission (AE...
Underground wastewater collection systems degrade with time, necessitating utility owners to engage in ongoing evaluations and enhancements of their asset management frameworks to preserve the performance of t...
Active faults in the earthquake region are consistently regarded as a potential geological hazard to the construction and operation of railway engineering. However, the effects of normal faulting on railway em...
The use of reinforced concrete is foundational to modern infrastructure. Acknowledging this, it is imperative that health monitoring techniques be in place to study corrosion within these structures. By using ...
We propose a novel Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) architecture for sequential decision processes under uncertainty, as encountered in inspection and maintenance (I &M) planning. Unlike other DRL algorithms ...
The operational characteristics of freight shipment will significantly change after the implementation of Autonomous and Connected Trucks (ACT). This change will have a significant impact on freight mobility, ...
Resilience has increasingly become a crucial topic to the function of various real-world systems as our planet undergoes a rising trend of uncertainty and change due to natural, human and technological causes....
Retroreflectivity is the primary metric that controls the visibility of pavement markings during nighttime and in adverse weather conditions. Maintaining the minimum level of retroreflectivity as specified by ...
As a new concrete crack patching technology, microbial self-healing slurries offer favourable characteristics including non-pollution, ecological sustainability and good compatibility with concrete. In this pa...
Traffic safety in cold regions is seriously affected by the snow and ice brought by the extreme climate. The snowy and icy road cannot provide enough friction for the safe operation of vehicles due to its smoo...
Samples with two different binary blended concrete mixes were prepared, one containing cement replacement of 50% slag (referred here as SL mix) and the other containing cement replacement of 20% fly ash (terme...
Recently, there has been a trend among pavement engineers and scientists to utilize natural mineral resources found in different parts of the world to develop and enhance sustainable infrastructure. One of suc...
In cold regions, the environment dynamics lead to variations of soil temperature, water content, and deformation, which are characterized by highly coupled physical interplay. The hydraulic and thermal propert...
Crack sealers are crucial for preserving concrete bridge decks and extending their service life. This paper presents a comprehensive national survey in the U.S., gathering responses from a total of 37 differen...
In this study, the low temperature creep properties of multiphase bituminous materials (binder, mastic, Fine Aggregate Matrix—FAM, and mixture) were experimentally evaluated, and the impact of size effect on F...
In response to the demand for a greener approach to pavement infrastructure and the economic benefits associated with alternative materials, the modification of neat binders has been a consistent focus. This r...
There are over 2.2 million miles of underground water pipes serving the cities in the United States. Many are in poor conditions and deteriorate rapidly. Failures of these pipes could cause enormous financial ...
Complex adaptive systems – such as critical infrastructures (CI) – are defined by their vast, multi-level interactions and emergent behaviors, but this elaborate web of interactions often conceals relationship...
Wildfires can cause enormous loss of assets and human lives, and thus, timely evacuation from the wildfire zone is critical to saving lives. Understanding evacuation route conditions, including traffic and tem...
Rutting is a typical distress of asphalt pavement related to material, structural, loading, and environmental conditions of the pavement. This work presents a thorough and targeted synthesis of literature on c...
The recent increase in the frequency and intensity of disasters has damaged and disrupted transportation infrastructures, thereby significantly increasing the economic losses and slowing the pace of recovery. ...
The original article was published in Journal of Infrastructure Preservation and Resilience 2022 3:18
In-line inspection (ILI) is important to pipeline integrity management since it can detect pipeline defects and identify potential failure locations through periodical examinations. However, effectively evalua...
The probability of a train running over a bridge when an earthquake occurs is increasing with the total mileage of China’s high-speed railway network expanding. To study this issue, a three-dimensional train-t...
The erosion of chloride ions in concrete bridges will accelerate the corrosion of reinforcement, which is an important reason for the decline of bridge durability. The erosion process of chloride ion, especial...
Disruptions to key lifelines, especially electrical power, can cause outsized impacts on human functioning. The state of the art on developed countries has focused on enhancing resilience to electrical grid in...
This paper proposes a novel multi-grids steel plate shear wall with inclined slots (called MSPSW). This MSPSW composed of the steel plates with inclined slots, precast concrete panels, the transverse and longi...
Compared with acceleration-based modal analysis, displacement can provide a more reliable and robust identification result for output-only modal analysis of long-span bridges. However, the estimated displaceme...
As the backbone and the ‘blood vessel’ of modern cities, road networks provide critical support for community activities and economic growth, with their roles even more crucial due to the dramatic progress in ...
In the process of the continuous development of subway construction, the safe evacuation of subway passengers has been paid much attention to. As the subway itself has the characteristics of limited space and ...
Post-earthquake financial loss of structures induced by residual inter-story deformation (RID) has been recently noticed and various strategies have been proposed. A newly-emerged energy-dissipation material, ...
This paper applies the mechanics-based approach and five machine learning algorithms to classify the failure mode (leak or rupture) of steel oil and gas pipelines containing longitudinally oriented surface cra...
Construction equipment tracking of highway construction site can obtain the spatiotemporal location in real time and provide data basis for construction risk control. The complete 2D moving of construction equ...
Passive buildings are proving to be a solution to menaces of energy crisis and greenhouse gas emissions across the world. Such buildings tend to exhibit low energy demand owing to their cleverly designed envel...
This paper aims to thoroughly analyze the effect of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic aggregate on concrete compressive strength using a meta-analysis. Forty-three datasets for concrete containing PET c...
The purpose of the paper is to improve the efficiency of vehicle based sensing technology in highway pavement condition assessment by evaluating the effect of four factors (sensor placement, pavement temperatu...
As infrastructure construction advances toward the cold and highland environment, concrete preparation technology and service performance in the cold climate is receiving much attention. The freezing of pore w...
Unrefined and highly corrosive upstream petroleum resources and complex operating environments pose a significant threat to the integrity and safety of gathering pipelines. The present study proposed a novelty...
High-performance fiber-reinforced cementitious composites (HPFRCC) exhibit benefits in improving infrastructure resilience but often compromise sustainability due to the higher upfront cost and carbon footprin...
The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Infrastructure Preservation and Resilience 2023 4:15
Unnoticed corrosion in underground reinforced concrete structural members – such as foundations, retaining walls, or piles – may severely threaten the integrity of structures. However, condition assessment of ...
This paper describes the development of a random finite element model (RFEM) that allows holistic simulation of frozen soil behaviors, including the effects of phase transition and the consequent internal stre...
Time varying mass engineering structure is the type of structure where the total mass of the structure changes rapidly, and the loads generated are dependent on the properties of the structure, discharge rate ...
The 2020 National Building Code of Canada (NBCC) seismic hazard model (SHM) marks a comprehensive update over its predecessor (NBCC 2015). For different regions in Canada, this will have an impact on the desig...
This paper presents a state-of-the-art review of prestressed concrete tub girders for bridge structures, which are a resilient solution to reduce the occurrence probability of disruptive events and to extend t...
Rainfall-induced slope failures disrupt the traffic and warrant urgent slope repair works. The impact of roadside slope failures can be minimized if slopes are proactively rehabilitated. Nonetheless, transport...
This paper presents a synthesis of current practices in regard to the seismic analysis, design, and retrofit of built-environments. Background information on the behavior of existing buildings subjected to ear...
Structural health monitoring (SHM) system aims to monitor the in-service condition of civil infrastructures, incorporate proactive maintenance, and avoid potential safety risks. An SHM system involves the coll...
Asphalt pavement is vulnerable to the temperature rising and extremely high-temperature weather caused by climate change. The regulation techniques of asphalt pavement high temperature have become a growing co...
The impact of climate change on the deterioration of reinforced concrete elements have been frequently highlighted as worthy of investigation. This article addresses this important issue by presenting a time-v...
Quantifying economic losses of civil infrastructures subjected to various hazards under a life-cycle context is of vital importance for risk assessment and management. In previous studies, the expected long-te...
