Newsletter July 2023 📩

ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems - Call for Papers

Part A: Civil Engineering, and Part B. Mechanical Engineering

The Editorial Board of the ASCE-ASME Journal invites contributions presenting state-of-the-art research and best practices for addressing risk, disaster and failure-related challenges arising from uncertainty. We particularly welcome emerging research relating to availability and processing of big data, including data driven decision support, machine learning and further computational intelligence tools relating to risk and uncertainty.

How to submit:

Part A: https://ascelibrary.org/journal/ajrua6

Part B: ASME Digital Collection - Part B

Editorial Message

Part B of our journal has received an Impact Factor of 2.2, which is a tremendous success for the initial allocation. The Impact Factor for Part A has experienced a slight drop to 2.5, which is a result of a significant increase of the denominator of the assessment equation. In overall, this is a temporary correction with anticipation for further growth. I would like to thank the entire team of authors, reviewers, and editors for their outstanding high-quality work that has made this success happen.

Furthermore, I’m very happy to report that the best paper awards for the 2022 cycle have been determined. With the new denomination in honor of our Founding Editor in Chief, Prof. Bilal M. Ayyub, the “Bilal M. Ayyub Research Award for Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems” for Part A is given for the paper “Risk Generation and Identification of Driver–Vehicle–Road Microtraffic System” by Heye Huang, Jinxin Liu, Yibin Yang and Jianqiang Wang. For Part B, the “Bilal M. Ayyub Research Prize for Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems” is given for the paper “Automated Transformation of UML /SYSML Behavioral Diagrams for Stochastic Error Propagation Analysis of Autonomous Systems” by Andrey Morozov, Thomas Mutzke and Kai Ding. The award ceremony will be integrated in the ASCE INSPIRE conference in Arlington in November 2023. We congratulate the winners with highest appreciation and thanks for their outstanding contributions to the journal.

A third set of great news concerns very prestigious achievements by members of our editorial team. In the recent EURODYN conference, Eleni Chatzi delivered a plenary lecture, and Matthias Faes as well as Wangji Yan were honored with a Junior Research Award of the European Association for Structural Dynamics. We express our most cordial congratulations!

Please contact the Editor or the Managing Editors by email if you have an interest to guest edit a special collection (Part A) or a special issue (Part B).

Both Part A and Part B are listed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index by Clarivate Analytics , formerly Thomson Reuters, with Part A being indexed since 2019. From 2016 onward, all articles are included in Web of Science and Scopus .

Statement on Open Access

The editorial team motivates authors to share their pre-prints and/or accepted versions of their paper via institutional or other repositories, scientific social networks or personal websites in the spirit of Open Science. Please make sure to abide by embargos and other Journal Policies, which can be found here for  part A  and here for  part B

Part A Civil Engineering - News

Update your library with the latest reading from the ASCE-ASME JRUES journals:

LATEST ISSUES ❖ V9-3: September 2023 (in progress) ❖ V9-2: March 2023 (in progress) ❖ V9-1: March 2023 ❖ V8-4: December 2022 ❖ V8-3: June 2022   ❖ V8-2: June 2022   ❖ V8-1: March 2022

LATEST REVIEWS

• What Geotechnical Engineers Want to Know about Reliability Kok-Kwang Phoo

• Resilience-Based Design of Infrastructure: Review of Models, Methodologies, and Computational Tools Mahdi Shadabfar, Mojtaba Mahsuli, Yi Zhang, Yadong Xue, Bilal M. Ayyub, Hongwei Huang and Ricardo A. Medina

• Time-Dependent Reliability of Aging Structures: Overview of Assessment Methods Cao Wang, Michael Beer and Bilal M. Ayyub 

• Structural System Reliability: Overview of Theories and Applications to Optimization Junho Song, Won-Hee Kang, Young-Joo Lee and Junho Chun 

• Emerging Technologies for Resilient Infrastructure: Conspectus and Roadmap Mahmoud Reda Taha, Bilal M. Ayyub, Kenichi Soga, Sherif Daghash, Daniel Heras Murcia, Fernando Moreu and Eslam Soliman

• Probabilistic Inference for Structural Health Monitoring: New Modes of Learning from Data Lawrence A. Bull, Paul Gardner, Timothy J. Rogers, Elizabeth J. Cross

LATEST SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

• Special Collection on Benchmarking Data-Driven Site Characterization Kok-Kwang Phoon, Takayuki Shuku, Jianye Ching, Ikumasa Yoshida

• Special Collection on Structural Time-Dependent Reliability Assessment: Advanced Approaches for Engineered Structures , Cao Wang, Hao Zhang, Michael Beer

• Special Collection on Bayesian Learning Methods for Geotechnical Data , Ka-Veng Yuen, Jianye Ching, Kok Kwang Phoon 

• Special Collection on Resilience Quantification and Modeling for Decision Making , Gian Paolo Cimellaro and Nii O. Attoh-Okine

Please contact the Editor or Managing Editors by email if you are interested in guest editing a Special Collection (Part A) 

Please contact the Editor or Managing Editors by email if you are interested in guest editing a Special Collection (Part A)

CALL FOR PAPERS - Part A

• Special Collection on Resilience of Power Infrastructure System . Paper submission deadline: September 30, 2023.
• Special Collection on New Technologies in Risk Assessment of Maritime Transport . Paper submission deadline: July 31, 2023.
• Special Collection on Non-Deterministic Model Updating and Structural Health Monitoring for Existing Structures . Paper submission deadline: August 31, 2023.

Part A - Awards & Recognitions

Editor’s Choice Paper

What Geotechnical Engineers Want to Know about Reliability by Kok-Kwang Phoon

Most Read Paper

Structural System Reliability: Overview of Theories and Applications to Optimization , by Junho Song, Won-Hee Kang; Young-Joo Lee, and Junho Chun<

Most Cited Paper

Scale of Fluctuation for Spatially Varying Soils: Estimation Methods and Values , by Brigid Cami, Sina Javankhoshdel, Kok-Kwang Phoon, and Jianye Ching

Editor’s Choice Collection

For each issue of the journal, the Chief Editor may select a paper to be featured on the journal homepage in the ASCE Library. The paper is available for free to registered users for 1 to 4 months, depending on how frequently the journal is published. A list of Editor’s Choice selections is available here .

2022 Outstanding Reviewers

Babatunde Oluwaseun Ajayi ■ Nicholas Chileshe ■ Ketson Roberto Maximiano dos Santos ■ Ao Du ■ De-Cheng Feng ■ Kun Gao ■ Ying Lu ■ Cao Wang ■ Hexiang Wang ■ Jie Zhang

Bilal M. Ayyub Research Award for Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering

Established in 2019, the Editor’s Award is given annually to one paper in Part A appearing in the preceding volume year. Starting from 2022, the Editor’s Award for Part A was named “Bilal M. Ayyub Research Award” in recognition of the outstanding professional leadership of the founding Editor-in-Chief, Professor Bilal M. Ayyub, Dist. M. ASCE and Hon. M. ASME.

The awarded papers are made freely available from the ASCE Library for one year to anyone interested once registered and logged in to download.

*Recipients of the 2022 Bilal M. Ayyub Research Award:

Authors: Heye Huang, Jinxin Liu, Yibin Yang, Jianqiang Wang Title: “Risk Generation and Identification of Driver–Vehicle–Road Microtraffic System ”

The awards will be presented to the authors in attendance at the ASCE INSPIRE Conference on Infrastructure Innovation & Adaptation for a Sustainable & Resilient World during the period November 16 - 18, 2023, https://inspire.asce.org

Part B Mechanical Engineering - News

Update your library with the latest reading from the ASCE-ASME JRUES journals:

LATEST ISSUES

❖ V9-4: December 2023 (in progress) ❖ V9-3: September 2023 ❖ V9-2: June 2023   ❖ V9-1: March 2023 ❖ V8-4: December 2022 ❖ V8-3: September 2022 ❖ V8-2: June 2022 ❖ V8-1: March 2022 

LATEST REVIEWS

• A Recent Review of Risk-Based Inspection Development to Support Service Excellence in the Oil and Gas Industry: An Artificial Intelligence Perspective , by Taufik Aditiyawarman, Agus Paul Setiawan Kaban, Johny Wahyuadi Soedarsono

• Prognostics and Health Management of Wind Energy Infrastructure Systems , by Celalettin Yüce, Ozhan Gecgel, Oğuz Doğan, Shweta Dabetwar, Yasar Yanik, Onur Can Kalay, Esin Karpat, Fatih Karpat, Stephen Ekwaro-Osire

• Uncertainty Quantification for Additive Manufacturing Process Improvement: Recent Advances , by Sankaran Mahadevan, Paromita Nath, Zhen Hu

• Optimizing Predictive Maintenance With Machine Learning for Reliability Improvement , by Yali Ren

• Path Integral Methods for the Probabilistic Analysis of Nonlinear Systems Under a White-Noise Process , by Mario Di Paola and Gioacchino Alotta

LATEST SPECIAL ISSUES

• Special Section on Decommissioning and Life Extension of Complex Industrial Assets , by Raphael Moura, Michael Beer, Gilberto Francisco Martha de Souza, and Edoardo Patelli

• Special Section on Risk, Resilience, and Reliability for Autonomous Vehicle Technologies: Trend, Techniques, and Challenges , by Mohammad Pourgol-Mohammad, Arun Veeramany, Bilal Ayyub<

• Special Section on Probabilistic Approaches for Robust Structural Health Monitoring of Wind Energy Infrastructure , by Imad Abdallah and Eleni Chatzi

• Special Issue on Uncertainty Quantification and Management in Additive Manufacturing , by Zhen Hu, Saideep Nannapaneni, Sankaran Mahadevan

• Special Section on Risk and Uncertainties in Offshore Wind and Wave Energy Systems , by Vikram Pakrashi, Jimmy Murphy, Budhaditya Hazra

• Special Section: Nonprobabilistic and Hybrid Approaches for Uncertainty Quantification and Reliability Analysis , by Matthias G.R. Faes, David Moens, Michael Beer, Hao Zhang, Kok-Kwang Phoon

• Special Section on Response Analysis and Optimization of Dynamic Energy Harvesting Systems in Presence of Uncertainties , by Agathoklis Giaralis, Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou, Pol D. Spanos

Please contact the Editor or Managing Editors by email if you are interested in guest editing a Special Section/Issue (Part B).

Call for Papers - Part B

• Special Issue on Uncertainty-Aware Diagnostics and Prognostics for Health Monitoring and Risk Management of Engineered Systems . Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2024.

• Special Issue on Modeling and Analysis of Inspection Uncertainties in Structural Health Monitoring (SI059B). Paper submission deadline: July 31, 2023.

• Special Issue on Probabilistic Digital Twins in Additive Manufacturing . Paper submission deadline: September 30, 2023.

Part B - Awards & Recognitions

Most Read Paper

System-Reliability-Based Disaster Resilience Analysis of Infrastructure Networks and Causality-Based Importance Measure , by Youngjun Kwon, Junho Song

Most Cited Paper

Digital Twins: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions for Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Dynamics Applications , by D. J. Wagg, K. Worden, R. J. Barthorpe, P. Gardner

Featured Article

Resilience Decision-Making for Complex Systems , by Julian Salomon, Matteo Broggi, Sebastian Kruse, Stefan Weber, Michael Beer

Reviewers of the Year 2021

■ Chen Jiang ■ Imad Abdallah

Bilal M. Ayyub Research Prize for Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering

Established in 2019, the Editor’s Award is given annually to one paper in Part B. Starting from 2022, the Editor’s Award for Part B was named “Bilal M. Ayyub Research Prize” in recognition of the outstanding professional leadership of the founding Editor-in-Chief, Professor Bilal M. Ayyub, Dist. M. ASCE and Hon. M. ASME.

The awarded papers are made freely available from the ASME Digital Collection (Part B) for one year to anyone interested once registered and logged in to download. Moreover, ASME offers the authors a one-year free subscription to Part B.

Recipients of the 2022 Bilal M. Ayyub Research Prize Authors: Andrey Morozov, Thomas Mutzke, Kai Ding Title: “Automated Transformation of uml/sysml Behavioral Diagrams for Stochastic Error Propagation Analysis of Autonomous Systems"

The awards will be presented to the authors in attendance at the ASCE INSPIRE Conference on Infrastructure Innovation & Adaptation for a Sustainable & Resilient World during the period November 16 - 18, 2023, https://inspire.asce.org

EARLY CAREER EDITORIAL BOARD

Starting in 2020, the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems in its two parts has implemented the Early Career Editorial Board (ECEB)  program to bring young members onboard its editorial board under the mentorship of the journal leadership.

ECEB members typically have a net academic age of 1-3 years. The term of an ECEB member is 2 years with the possibility for renewal into a second term. We welcome eight new ECEB members, who have been appointed for the next two years. 

Editor:

• Michael Beer, Leibniz University Hanover, beer@irz.uni-hannover.de  

Managing Editors:

• Sankaran Mahadevan, Vanderbilt University, sankaran.mahadevan@vanderbilt.edu
• Eleni Chatzi, ETH Zurich, chatzi@ibk.baug.ethz.ch

Associate Managing Editors:

• Matthias Faes, KU Leuven, matthias.faes@tu-dortmund.de

• Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou, Columbia University, iak2115@columbia.edu

• Xiaobo Qu, Chalmers University of Technology, xiaobo@chalmers.se

• Alba Sofi, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, alba.sofi@unirc.it

• Cao Wang, University of Wollongong, wangc@uow.edu.au

Early Career Editorial Board Members:

• Shivang Shekhar, Indian Institute of Technology, shivang@iitmandi.ac.in
• Mandi Yating Zhang, University of Maryland, zhangyatingemail@gmail.com
• Masaru Kitahara, University of Tokyo, kitahara@bridge.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
• Rudraprasad Bhattacharyya, Thornton Tomasetti Somayajulu, RBhattacharyya@ThorntonTomasetti.com   
• L. N. Dhulipala, Idaho National Laboratory, Som.Dhulipala@inl.gov  
• Vasileios C. Fragkoulis, Leibniz University Hannover, fragkoulis@irz.uni-hannover.de
• Shweta U. Dabetwar, University of Massachusetts, dabetwarshweta@gmail.com
• Lowell Chen Jiang,Seoul National University,  chenjiang@hust.edu.cn

Contributing Editorial Board Member:

• Zhang Dongming, Tongji University, 09zhang@tongji.edu.cn  

Founding Editor (2014-2021):

• Bilal M. Ayyub, University of Maryland College Park

Editorial Board members: Part A  & Part B

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