The main objectives of the Special Issue of Advanced in Bridge Engineering concern the progress in the areas of sustainability of concrete bridges/structures. Sustainability is the most important keyword for human being in this century. The global concern for climate change, global warming, and increasing pollution has made it imperative for everyone, including engineers, to devise green strategies for sustainable future. To maintain the current global environment on a long-term basis, it is essential that all industries take the necessary action to ensure its sustainability. The concrete bridge/structures construction is engaged in developing infrastructure essential for human socioeconomic activities, while consuming an enormous amount of materials resources, water, and energy. We must exert efforts to realize a sustainable society by changing our current technological system.
The issue includes all the subjects focusing on the sustainable concrete materials, smart strategies in the construction industry, performance of existing bridges/structures or structural elements, lifecycle assessment on concrete bridge/structures, lifetime extension and performance enhancement approaches for existing concrete bridges/structures. The encouraged topics, and beyond, are as follows:
- Sustainable and Eco-friendly cement-based materials
- Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC)
- Supplementary cementitious materials
- Recycling of waste materials and innovative technologies
- Geopolymer concrete
- Durability and mechanical properties of sustainable concretes
- Design for deconstruction (demountable structures for next reuse)
- Integration of BIM for sustainable construction
- Accelerated Bridge Construction
- Real experiences of construction projects and works with a contribution to sustainability
- Lifecycle assessment on concrete bridges/structures
- Lifetime extension and performance enhancement approaches under severe environmental conditions
Schedule for the manuscript submission: until Feb. 28, 2021.
Guest Editors
Jiann-Wen Woody Ju, University of California at Los Angeles, juj@ucla.edu
Tengfei Xu, Southwest Jiaotong University, tengfeixu@swjtu.edu.cn
Guotao Yang, Qingdao University of Technology, yangguotao@qut.edu.cn
Leo Gu Li, Guangdong University of Technology, ligu@gdut.edu.cn
Guest Editors for the Special Issue:
Professor Jiann-Wen Woody Ju received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the UC Berkeley. He is a senior Professor at UCLA, and served as the Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Prof. Ju served as an Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Engineering Materials & Technology, and for the ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics from 1995 to 2002. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Damage Mechanics, an Associate Editor of the ASCE J. of Nanomechanics and Micromechanics, and an Editorial Board member of the Acta Mechanica. He served as the ACI 446 Committee Chair. Prof. Ju received the 1991 Presidential Young Investigator Award from NSF and White House, 1991 Alfred Rheinstein Faculty Award from Princeton Univ., 1997 ASCE Walter Huber Civil Engineering Research Award, 1998 ASME Fellow Award, 2000 ACI-James-Instruments Award in NDE, 2006 ASCE Fellow Award, 2007 USACM Fellow Award, 2008 ACI Fellow Award, 2008-2009 Invited Chair Professor from University of Paris VI and ENS Cachan (France), 2008 Publication Award of Merit from the Structural Engineers Association, 2009-2012 Chang-Jiang Scholar Chair Professor (Ministry of Education, China), 2010 IACM Fellow Award, 2010 Kwang-Hua Chair Professor (Tongji University), 2011-2013 Tongji Univ. Chair Professor, National 1000 Talents Program (Short-Term) Distinguished Chair Professor (2013-present), Tongji University Distinguished Chair Professor (2013-present), Guangxi University Distinguished Chair Professor (2013-present), 2013 ICACM Award, and Honorary Distinguished University Professor from Southwest Jiaotong University (2015-present), 2018 ICDM-3 Lifetime Achievement Medal, 2018 EU Academy of Sciences Member, and 2020 ASCE EMI Fellow Award etc. Prof. Ju has published more than 160 SCI-indexed scholarly journal papers. His research interests and research projects encompass structural engineering, structural mechanics, computational mechanics, computational damage, healing and fracture mechanics, micromechanics and nanomechanics of composites, multiscale material modeling, finite elements, biomechanics, computational geomechanics and geotechnical engineering, reliability, service life predictions, durability of concrete and cementitious composites, sulfate attack problems, environmental assessment and hazard, risk analysis and management, hazard mitigation, multiphase porous flow and transport, and wind-wave-bridge interactions and damage effects, etc.
Dr. Tengfei Xu is an associate professor within the Department of Bridge Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University. He served as a co-supervisor at UNSW Sydney, Australia. Dr. Xu received his Ph.D. (2010) and BSc (2005) from the School of Civil Engineering of Southwest Jiaotong University, China. His work is dedicated to developing high-performance concrete structures as well as reducing the environmental impact of the concrete industry, focusing on high-performance concrete, accelerated bridge construction, serviceability and durability of concrete structures. Dr. Xu has obtained support for his research from two Natural Science Foundation of China (NFSC) projects related to the serviceability of concrete structure and industrial and international collaborations. Dr. Xu has published more than 40 journal papers and served as the reviewer for many international journals.
Dr. Guotao Yang currently works as a professor at the School of Civil Engineering of Qingdao University of Technology. Prior to joining QUT, he worked as a post-doctoral research fellow for five years at UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales), Australia, where he focused on the climate adaptation engineering for extreme events (CAEx). He received his PhD (2013) and BSc (2008) from Department of Bridge Engineering of Tongji University, China. His interests include sustainability of composite structures, non-linearity of slender structures, probabilistic modeling of natural hazards, etc. Dr. Yang is the principal investigator of two NSFC projects related to composite structures and has been responsible for the consulting service of many long-span bridges. He has published more than 40 journal papers, and served as reviewer for many journals, including Journal of Bridge Engineering, Engineering Structures, etc.
Dr. Leo Gu Li is currently an Associate Professor and Department Head in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT), and a Research Associate at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He received his PhD from HKU. His research mainly focuses on high-performance concrete, solid waste reutilization, marine construction materials, construction 3D printing, etc. He is principal investigator or core member of 18 research projects supported by Natural Science Foundation of China, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, and etc. He is author of more than 100 publications (including 42 papers indexed by SCI). He is laureate of the Pearl River S&T Nova Programme, the Guangdong Ceramic Society Young S&T Award, the HKIE Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/Researchers (Finalist Winners), etc. He is fellow of Hong Kong Concrete Institute, subscribing member of International Federation for Structural Concrete, member of American Concrete Institute, committee member of Chinese Ceramic Society, council member of Guangdong Ceramic Society, and he is also the Outstanding/Invited Reviewers for more than 10 journals.