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|
Recent Submissions
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Nature-Based Design Standards: Past, Present, and Future
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)Abstract Nature-based solutions (NbS) are increasingly recognized as effective tools for climate adaptation, yet their implementation remains limited by the perception that engineering guidance is lacking. This paper ... -
Development of a Cyber–Physical Testbed for Smart and Resilient Space Habitats
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Abstract The Resilient Extra-Terrestrial Habitats Institute (RETHi) has developed and commissioned the Human-centered Autonomous Resilient Space Habitat (HARSH), a shared-use cyber–physical testing facility, to enable ... -
Economic Analysis of 3D-Printed Hempcrete Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Abstract This paper studies the economic viability of single-story three-dimensional printed hempcrete (3DPH) housing by developing initial construction cost estimates for 16 US cities representing the respective climate ... -
Exploring Why the February 6, 2023, Kahramanmaras Earthquakes Were So Destructive: Further Analysis of the SGM Data and Bidirectional Effects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Abstract The sequential earthquakes that occurred on February 6, 2023, particularly the Pazarcik (MW 7.8) and Elbistan/Ekinozu (MW 7.6) events, caused significant structural damage and loss of human lives in the city of ... -
Assessment of Infrastructure Failures in the 2023 Kahramanmaras Earthquakes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)Abstract The February 2023 Kahramanmaras earthquakes—among the most destructive seismic events of the last century—caused catastrophic loss of life and widespread damage to critical infrastructure across 11 provinces in ... -
Optimizing Task Scheduling for Efficient and Ergonomic Human–Robot Collaboration in Construction Tasks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)Abstract Human–robot collaboration (HRC) offers transformative potential in construction to mitigate labor shortages and enhance productivity. Effective task scheduling between human workers and robots is essential for ... -
Automated Concrete Bridge Deck Inspection Using Unmanned Aerial System–Collected Data: A Deep Learning Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)Abstract Inspecting concrete bridge decks is essential for ensuring infrastructure safety and durability, yet traditional manual inspection methods are labor-intensive, time-consuming, and prone to human error, creating ... -
SAFNet: Artificial Intelligence–Based Multisource Heterogeneous Data Fusion for Comprehensive Building Attribute Prediction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Abstract Accurate assessment of structural attributes is vital for flood risk evaluation and mitigation planning. Manual surveys for such data are expensive and time-consuming, while automated methods often rely solely on ... -
Module-Enhanced Slope-Adaptive and Hazard-Aware Hexapod Robotic System for Safe Roof Inspection
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Abstract Roof inspection is essential yet perilous in construction, with falls causing 24% of fatal work injuries. While drones allow rapid surveying, they often lack close-range precision, and ground-based robots struggle ... -
RoboAuditor-LLM: A Robotic System for Energy Auditing via a Large Language Model and an Actionable Semantic Feature Map
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Abstract Buildings significantly contribute to electricity consumption, increasing the risk of costly blackouts and safety issues due to growing demand. However, plug loads remain underexplored in energy audits due to their ... -
Generalizable Skill Learning for Construction Robots with Crowdsourced Natural Language Instructions, Composable Skills Standardization, and a Large Language Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Abstract The quasi-repetitive nature of construction work and the resulting lack of generalizability in programming construction robots present persistent challenges to the broad adoption of robots in the construction ... -
Motion-Based Communication as a Language: Formal Grammar Representation and Model-Free Decoding with Dense Optical Flow
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Abstract Transmitting information through movement or gestures has a long history and is especially valuable when other communication modalities are impaired or unavailable. This research explores motion-based communication ... -
Camastra Dam Failure: Earthquake Collapse versus Total Reservoir Loss Risk Aversion
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Abstract Communities worldwide are increasingly vulnerable to various natural and anthropogenic hazards, with critical infrastructure projects like dams playing a pivotal role in risk mitigation. The Camastra Dam in Southern ... -
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 ...