Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Hong Hao
published quarterly • ISSN
2041-4196
Volume 1 to be published quarterly, Number 1 in March 2010
Because of increased terrorist activities, the effective protection of critical civil infrastructure such as embassies, government buildings, airports and bridges against blast loads has become a critical issue. Moreover, the effects of military ordnance on civil infrastructure, and collateral damage estimation, are increasingly topics of relevance to defence agencies and government. Hence, there has been a significant increase in research activities related to infrastructure protection against blast loads around the world. Many new research results have been obtained. In addition to blast loads from terrorist actions or accidental gas explosions, vehicle impact on road and bridge infrastructure, ship impact on bridge structures, and impact between adjacent structures during earthquake shakings, drop weight effects, etc have also been reported to cause structural damage and failure. Many research activities are devoted to the modeling and analysis of shock and impact effects on structures. Penetration and perforation analysis, material failure in high strain rate loading, test method developments in shock and impact conditions have also attracted increasing research interests in recent years.
The International Journal of Protective Structures will publish high quality research papers related to civil infrastructure protection against natural or man-made shock and impact loads, including but not limited to blast loads from terrorist actions or accidental gas explosions, vehicle impact on road and bridge infrastructure, ship impact on bridge structures, impact between adjacent structures during earthquake shakings, and drop weight effects. It welcomes original papers related to the themes of the journal. Civil infrastructure may include, but is not limited to, buildings, bridges, pipelines, offshore platforms, shipping, defence facilities and other onshore, offshore, above-ground or underground structures. The journal will be an effective medium for the timely dissemination of research findings that will not only benefit the professional communities, but also society as a whole for effective infrastructure protection. It will serve as a bridge to link active researchers, academics, engineers and policy makers around the world.
The editor will consider:
Full-length papers; Short technical notes; Discussion and review papers; Book
reviews
All manuscripts must be unpublished work with a significant original contribution
related to the theme of the journal. All the manuscripts will be peer-reviewed.
Contributions should be sent directly to the editor – hao@civil.uwa.edu.au
– or to one of the editorial board members listed
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Hong Hao
Professor of Structural Dynamics, School of Civil and Resource Engineering,
The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009,
Australia
hao@civil.uwa.edu.au
Professor Hao’s research interests are primarily in structural dynamics and its applications in solving various engineering problems. His publishing credits include more than 400 technical publications, including about 20 keynote conference papers, and 160 journal papers.
His current research includes: Building structure response and damage analysis to explosive loads; Probabilistic bridge condition monitoring, damage identification and load-carrying capacity prediction; Numerical modelling and field measurement of traffic-induced ground vibrations and their effect on structures; Pounding response analysis of bridges with soil-structure interaction to spatially varying ground motions; Seismic ground motion prediction and risk analysis of infrastructures.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Prof. Norbert Gebbeken, Institute of Engineering Mechanics and Structural
Mechanics, Germany Norbert.gebbeken@unibw.de
Prof. Yong Lu, University of Edinburgh, UK
Yong.Lu@ed.ac.uk
Prof. Guowei Ma, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore CGWMa@ntu.edu.sg
Prof. Hani Salim, University of Missouri, USA
SalimH@missouri.edu
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS
Professor Daniel Ambrosini, National University of Cuyo, Argentina
dambrosini@uncu.edu.ar
Prof. Gabi Ben-Dor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
bendorg@bgu.ac.il
Professor Masuhiro Beppu, National Defense Academy, Japan
beppu@nda.ac.jp
Prof. Xiaowei Chen, China Academy of Engineering Physics, China
chenxiaoweintu@yahoo.com
Mr. John E. Crawford, Karagozian and Case, USA
Crawford@kcse.com
Prof. Avraham Dancygier, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology,
Israel
avidan@technion.ac.il
Prof. James Davidson, Auburn University, USA
jim.davidson@auburn.edu
Prof. Xiuli Du, Beijing University of Technology, China
duxl@iwhr.com
Prof. Qin Fang, PLA University of Science and Technology, China
fangqinjs@139.com
Prof. Nobutaka Ishikawa, National Defense Academy, Japan
cgishikawa@m4.dion.ne.jp
Dr Qingming Li , The University of Manchester, UK
Qingming.Li@manchester.ac.uk
Prof. Zhong-Xian Li, Tianjin University, China
zxli@tju.edu.cn
Prof. Guoxing Lu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
GXLU@ntu.edu.sg
Professor Bibiana Luccioni , Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina
bluccioni@herrera.unt.edu.ar
Prof. Priyan Mendis, The University of Melbourne, Australia
pamendis@unimelb.edu.au
Prof. G. N. Nurick, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Gerald.Nurick@uct.ac.za
Prof Petr Procházka, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
petr.proch@volny.cz
Prof. Ser Tong Quek , National University of Singapore, Singapore
cveqst@nus.edu.sg
Prof. A. G. Razaqpur, McMaster University, Canada
razaqpu@mcmaster.ca
Dr Peter D Smith , Defence Academy, Cranfield University, UK
p.d.smith@cranfield.ac.uk
Prof. Yoshimi Sonoda , Kyushu University, Japan
sonoda@doc.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Prof. Mark Stewart, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Mark.Stewart@newcastle.edu.au
Prof. Dr. Klaus Thoma, Fraunhofer-Institut Ernst-Mach-Institut, Germany
klaus.thoma@emi.fraunhofer.de
Prof. Gordon Wight, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada
Gordon.Wight@rmc.ca
Dr. Chengqing Wu , The University of Adelaide, Australia
cwu@civeng.adelaide.edu.au
Prof. David Yankelevsky, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
davidyri@techunix.technion.ac.il
Prof. T. Yoda, Waseda University, Japan
yoda1914@waseda.jp
Prof. Yun Zhou, Guangzhou University, China
Zhyun2007@yahoo.com.cn