Journal of Infrastructure Systems: Recent submissions
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Integrated Performance Assessment Model for Water Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Most water distribution systems worldwide are deteriorating rapidly, while their rehabilitation costs are on the rise. Maintaining water networks in a proper condition under a tight budget puts extra pressure on municipalities ... -
Fragility and Resilience Indicators for Portfolio of Oil Storage Tanks Subjected to Hurricanes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This paper develops fragility functions and estimates of resilience indicators for aboveground storage tanks (ASTs) subjected to hurricanes, which can be efficiently applied to all the tanks in a regional portfolio of ASTs ... -
Reliability-Based Service Life Prediction of Corrosion-Affected Cast Iron Pipes Considering Multifailure Modes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Cast iron pipes were widely used in water distribution networks before the 196s and the majority of them have become aged and deteriorated with corrosion, which has been identified as one of the most common mechanisms of ... -
Rutting and Roughness of Flood-Affected Pavements: Literature Review and Deterioration Models
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)In recent years, flooding has caused disruptions to road management by significantly increasing rehabilitation costs. To date, there is very limited literature addressing the rapid deterioration of pavements immediately ... -
Providing Flexibility to Infrastructure Design to Improve Cost Efficiency
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)In large infrastructure systems, the technical and operational requirements that are necessary to face future unexpected events cannot be defined up front; on the contrary, they evolve as a result of internal or external ... -
Multiobjective Formulation for Protection Allocation in Interdependent Infrastructure Networks Using an Attack-Diffusion Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Interdependent networks are a collection of individual networks that contain nodes that have interdependent relationships with nodes of other networks. Recognizing that many real-life networks are interdependent, approaches ... -
Optimal Welfare Price for a Highway Competing with an Untolled Alternative: Influence of Income Distribution
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)In some countries, it is common for two roads with the same origin and destination to compete in the same corridor. Usually one of the roads is a toll highway of better quality, whereas the parallel single road is toll-free. ... -
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Comparison of Three Retaining Wall Condition Assessment Rating Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)In general, the nature of permanent earth retaining structures (ERSs) in highway engineering is well suited to the concept of asset management as a valuable tool for operational efficiency and cost control. Earth retaining ... -
Refueling and Infrastructure Costs of Expanding Access to E85 in Pennsylvania
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)United States federal regulations require increasing renewable fuel blending in the transportation sector, a majority of which is corn ethanol. Nationally, ethanol is blended with gasoline up to 10% (E10) for use in ... -
Preserving Key Topological and Structural Features in the Synthesis of Multilevel Electricity Networks for Modeling of Resilience and Risk
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Given the often-limited availability of real electricity network data, this paper presents methodology for the synthesis of multilevel electricity networks for use in applied network failure and risk analysis. The proposed ... -
Determination of Risk-Reducing Intervention Programs for Railway Lines and the Significance of Simplifications
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Because failures on railway lines have nonzero probabilities of occurrence and can result in significant costs if they occur, railway infrastructure managers are interested in determining intervention programs that best ... -
Emergence of Antifragility by Optimum Postdisruption Restoration Planning of Infrastructure Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)A system is antifragile if its performance improves as the result of exposure to stressors, shocks, or disruptions. This behavior is typical of complex systems and is not usually exhibited by engineered technical systems. ... -
Probabilistic Modeling of Performance-Related Pay Adjustment for In-Place Air-Void Contents of Asphalt Pavements
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)There is a growing interest in development of performance-related specification for pavement construction. This paper presents the development of performance-related pay adjustments with probabilistic models of pavement ... -
Reliability Assessment of Critical Infrastructure Using Bayesian Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The authors present a Bayesian network (BN)-based approach for modeling and reliability assessment of infrastructure systems. The BN is a powerful framework that is able to account for uncertainties in component and system ... -
Developing a Project Success Index for Public–Private Partnership Projects in Developing Countries
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)In recent years, public–private partnership (PPP) projects’ success has become an important issue for both practice and research because of the growing number of developing countries adopting the PPP policy. However, success ... -
Updating Secondary Climate Attributes for Transportation Infrastructure Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)With research studies continuing to provide strong evidence that climatic conditions significantly impair the physical condition and longevity of civil engineering infrastructure, the importance of reliable climate data ... -
Energy and Carbon-Emission Analysis of Integrated Green-Roof Photovoltaic Systems: Probabilistic Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Roofs are important components of buildings and can be designed and/or retrofitted with photovoltaic (PV) and green-roof (GR) systems to produce energy and to improve stormwater management. Traditionally, GRs and PVs have ... -
Locating Leaks in Water Mains Using Noise Loggers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Because of their potential danger to public health, economic loss, environmental damage, and energy waste, underground water pipelines leaks have received more attention globally. Researchers have proposed active leakage ... -
Reliability-Based Assessment of Lifecycle Cost of Urban Water Distribution Infrastructures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Water distribution systems, as an urban infrastructure, have an indisputable role in the productivity of a society and the quality of life of its residents. It is necessary to develop policies for evaluation of the urban ...