New and Emerging Technologies for Monitoring and Predicting Civil Infrastructure Condition
Call for Papers
In most countries, civil engineering infrastructure plays a vital role in ensuring economic development and competitiveness and in enhancing quality of life. However, agencies continue to struggle preserving the acceptable condition of their existing civil infrastructure systems in the current era that is characterized by increasing demand and loading, uncertainty of sustained funding, and accelerated physical deterioration of existing infrastructure. In light of these trends, the effective and dynamic inspection and monitoring of civil infrastructure have become critical for timely intervention. To address this problem, advancements are sought in the areas of infrastructure health monitoring; field data connectivity and transmission; and data analysis for recognizing defect location, severity, and spread, and also for predicting future condition
We invite authors to present original research articles as well as review articles that will stimulate the continuing efforts in new and emerging technologies for monitoring and predicting civil infrastructure condition.
The civil engineering facilities of interest may include, but is not limited to, bridges, road and airfield pavements, infrastructure for water and wastewater treatment and distribution, hydraulic structures, earth retaining structures, buildings, towers, and other structural frames.
Potential topics include:
- Field techniques that measure and assess any indicator of the health of civil engineering infrastructure
- Technologies that relay such information to a central office
- Analytical methods that evaluate field data to make conclusions on type, severity, or extent of defects/distresses
- Analytical methods that predict the condition of infrastructure on the basis of deterioration factors such as amount of usage, material type, level of maintenance, and weather/climate conditions
Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ace/guidelines.html. Authors should follow the Advances in Civil Engineering manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ace/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable:
| Manuscript Due | March 1, 2009 |
| First Round of Reviews | June 1, 2009 |
| Publication Date | September 1, 2009 |
Lead Guest Editor
- Samuel Labi, Purdue University, 550 Stadium Mall Dr., W. Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Guest Editors
- John P. Newhook, Dalhousie University, D Building, 1360 Barrington Street Halifax, NS, Canada B3J 1Z1
- Udo Peil, Institute of Steel Structures, Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina, Beethovenstrasse 51, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
- Aftab Mufti, University of Manitoba, Room E1-368A Engineering, 15 Gillson St, MB, Canada R3T 5V6
- Matthew G. Karlaftis, National Technical University of Athens, Heroon Polytechniou 9, 15780 Zografou, Greece
- Luc Chouinard, McGill University, 817 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2K6
- Gongkang Fu, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
- Magued Iskander, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, 333 Jay Street, RH 403A, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA