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Call for Papers J. of Aerospace Engineering Special Collection on “Damage Detection, Assessment, and Rehabilitation of Civil Structures” Due to the harsh environmental loads (e.g. traffic, wind, seismic, scour, or thermal effects), deterioration and degradation of infrastructures are always of great concerns worldwide. A major part of the current infrastructures are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. These deficient structures can potentially endanger the safety and economical use, and even develop into a structure failure if the damage is not detected in the early stage. The research on detecting damage at the earliest possible stage is universal throughout the fields of civil, mechanical, and aerospace engineering. The common damage detection methods include visual inspection, local non-destructive detection methods such as ultrasound, X-ray, dye penetrates, magnetic particle, acoustic emission, etc., and global detection methods such as vibration-based damage detection, statistical detection methods, etc.

In the assessment of existing structures, engineers are not only increasingly faced with the challenges of early detection of damage, but also the evaluation of structure performance and behavior under damage, and economical and efficient retrofitting of the damaged components commonly found in older structures. In order to maintain the safety and integrity of structures, research on the damage mechanism, assessment of structure performance in damaged status, and the innovative technologies and materials to rehabilitate, repair, and retrofit structures are of great significance and have become pervasive research topics.

The main focus of this special collection is to present the recent advances in damage detection, health monitoring, structure condition assessment, and the innovative applications in repair, retrofitting, and rehabilitation of structures. A broad range of potential topics include, but are not limited to:  Damage Detection and NDT&E  Structure Health Monitoring and Sensing Technology  Mechanism, Simulation, and Prediction of Damage  Damage Uncertainty Quantification and Reliability Estimation,  Structure Performance under Dynamic/Environmental/Service Loadings  Structure Condition Assessment and Enhancement  Repair, Retrofitting, and Rehabilitation of Structures  Damage-based Life Prediction, Structural Sustainability, and Life-cycle Assessment  Innovative Material and Technology for Structure Repair Manuscript Submission: As an active scholar in this relevant field, you are cordially invited to submit your work on this special issue. (1) Please submit your manuscript via ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering website directly https://www.editorialmanager.com/jrnaseng/ (2) Please indicate in your submission that it is for the special collection “Damage Detection, Assessment, and Rehabilitation of Civil Structures” edited by Xuan Kong, Steve C.S. Cai, and Lu Deng. (3) The submitted manuscript should contain work that has not been published elsewhere and is not being simultaneously submitted to any other journal. All the submissions will go through the same peer review process as any regular submission in this journal. The manuscript will be sent to review as soon as it is submitted. Therefore, the earlier the better for submission.

Timelines: Submission deadline: June 1, 2017 Deadline for first review: September 1, 2017 Deadline for revision: October 15, 2017 Deadline for second review: December 15, 2017 Acceptance deadline: January 1, 2018 (depends on the review process)

Guest Editors: Dr. Xuan Kong, Viaero Wireless Inc., [email protected] Prof. Steve Cai, Louisiana State University, [email protected] Prof. Lu Deng, Hunan University, [email protected]

Please note that all accepted papers submitted under this solicitation will be published as special collections online. ASCE will no longer produce Special issues/collections in print. Instead, the journals will create Special Collections online. Special Collections will group manuscripts submitted to a particular thematic topic. The manuscripts will be published as they are accepted in a regular issue of the journal. For any questions regarding this solicitation, please contact the Chief Editor, Prof. Wieslaw K. Binienda, at [email protected].