ASCE OPEN: Multidisciplinary Journal of Civil Engineering
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ISSN:2995-4266|Disc:ASCE OPEN is a gold open access, multidisciplinary civil engineering journal that presents an all-encompassing civil engineering perspective on the built and natural environment. ASCE OPEN accepts submissions from across all disciplines of civil engineering and is particularly interested in original interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, or convergence research. Authors are encouraged to submit research that advances practical solutions to global grand challenges, including resilient and sustainable infrastructure, alternative energy sources, clean water and water security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, interdependence between infrastructure sectors, cutting-edge technology applications, and cybersecurity. It is published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). |Quarterly :1|Publisher:American Society of Civil Engineers|
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Social Susceptibility–Driven Longitudinal Tornado Reconnaissance Methodology: 2021 Midwest Quad-State Tornado Outbreak
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)With the impact of climate change, the intensity and frequency of tornado events have been increasing. Enhancing tornado reconnaissance methods can comprehensively capture building damage and recovery data following tornado ... -
Wind-Induced Response Analysis for High-Rise Buildings Based on Time-Variant Speed Model Considering Climate Change
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Under the scenario of global climate change, the wind resistance of high-rise buildings is facing a huge challenge. Climate change could cause an increase in wind speed, which poses a greater threat to high-rise buildings. ... -
Additive Construction: Digital Construction Technology for Polylactide Railroad Tracks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In contrast to traditionally manufactured railroad tracks, additively constructed railroad tracks can be designed to integrate with naturally occurring landscapes and topographical features, thus reducing earthwork efforts ... -
Cascading Failure Propagation and Perfect Storms in Interdependent Infrastructures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The increasingly complex conditions that are reshaping environments demand novel analysis of infrastructure weaknesses and behavior. Of critical concern are cascading failures and how small disruptions can spiral into ... -
Developing a Spatial Regression Model Framework for Insured Flood Losses in Houston
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Events such as Hurricane Harvey in 2017, which struck Houston resulted in billions of dollars in reported flood insurance claims through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Currently, there is limited research ... -
Deep Ensemble Learning for Rapid Large-Scale Postearthquake Damage Assessment: Application to Satellite Images from the 2023 Türkiye Earthquakes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Extensive field reconnaissance damage surveys, publicly available after the Türkiye earthquake sequence of 2023, provided a unique opportunity to devise and validate a rapid postevent damage assessment framework that uses ... -
Field Reconnaissance Observations of Marine Facilities in Southeast Türkiye Impacted by the February 2023 Earthquakes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)On February 6, 2023, southeastern areas of Türkiye and northwest areas of Syria were struck by a magnitude (M)7.7 earthquake (Pazarcık Earthquake) and, approximately 9 h later, an M7.6 event (Elbistan Earthquake) located ... -
Wildfire Risk Mitigation through Systems Analysis of the Planetary Emergency
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Recognizing wildfires as a multiscale planetary emergency, this paper describes a systems analysis of technology countermeasures, with special attention to Sicily, California, and several other regions. The paper describes ... -
Regional Building Damage Survey Data on the 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, Earthquakes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)On February 6, 2023, two major earthquakes with magnitudes 7.7 and 7.6 Mw struck within 9 h near the towns of Pazarcık and Elbistan, respectively, in the province of Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye. The main regions affected by ... -
Advancing Sustainability and Resilience of Airports through Deployment of New Technologies in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Airports Council International and the global air transport industry set a net-zero carbon goal for airports by 2050, presenting an opportunity for innovation and creating a sustainable path to recovery amid the COVID-19 ... -
A Generic Deep Learning–Based Computing Algorithm in Support of the Development of Instrumented Bikes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The paper introduces a generic deep learning–based method using a sliding window computing algorithm based on long short-term memory (LSTM) networks for the classification of potential anomalies (e.g., cracks, potholes, ... -
Interdependent Recovery Methodology for Residential Buildings and Household Housing in Community Resilience Modeling
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The growing field of multidisciplinary community resilience assessment requires analysts to model complex interactions across physical infrastructure and social systems to support planning and inform decisions. Community ... -
Quantifying Social Inequalities in Flood Risk
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The distribution and inequalities of flood risks across space and social groups are important considerations for infrastructure design and adaptation. However, neither civil infrastructure practitioners nor researchers ... -
Assessing the Institutional- and Project-Level Determinants of Corruption in Infrastructure Projects: Evidence from World Bank–Funded Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)To successfully deliver infrastructure projects, it is essential to prevent corruption—i.e., the act of offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting anything of value, directly or indirectly, with the intention of improperly ... -
3D Dense Reconstruction for Structural Defect Quantification
(ASCE, 2024/12/31)Recent advancements in vision-based visual inspection enable the identification, localization, and quantification of damage on structures. However, existing damage quantification methods are limited to measuring one- or ... -
Homeowners’ Motivations to Invest in Energy-Efficient and Renewable Energy Technologies in Rural Iowa
(ASCE, 2024/12/31)Across the United States, rural households are more vulnerable to higher energy burdens (percentage of household income spent on energy bills). Energy-efficient and renewable energy technologies provide the means for ... -
Time-Dependent Resilience in the Presence of Interacting Multiple Hazards in a Changing Climate
(ASCE, 2023/12/31)The safety and serviceability of in-service structures and infrastructure systems are often threatened by natural hazards. Asset owners/decision makers are thus concerned about the resilience of an object of interest ... -
Using Climate Model Decadal Predictions and Statistical Extrapolations of Location-Specific Near-Term Temperature and Precipitation for Infrastructure Engineering
(ASCE, 2023/12/31)Location-specific, near-term (≤10 years) temperature and precipitation conditions are informative and important in many infrastructure engineering activities. Two alternative approaches for obtaining near-term future climate ...