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Unveiling the Dynamics of Human Mobility in Response to Wildfire-Induced Air Quality Degradation: An Examination of the 2019 Kincade Fire
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Rising wildfire frequency and intensity are exacerbating air pollution, significantly impacting human mobility, particularly among vulnerable populations like low-income, elderly, and minority groups. This study, set in ... -
Toward Community-Centered Planning of Infrastructure Restorations by Integrating Community Demographics and Public Facilities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Critical lifeline infrastructures are increasingly facing disruptions from natural and human-made disasters. To reduce disaster impacts on communities, there is a paradigm shift toward community-centered planning of ... -
Understanding Governments, ESCOs, and Clients’ Behavioral Strategies in Public Building Energy-Efficiency Renovation Based on Evolutionary Game Theory
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Energy performance contracting (EPC) overcomes the financial and risk barriers hindering energy conservation. The public building sector possessing the energy-intensive nature embraced this mode but is far from its market ... -
Coming Clean: The Impact of Firm Internationalization on Environmental Information Disclosure in the Construction Industry
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Environmental information disclosure (EID) as an essential component of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a business imperative worldwide. Despite the growing interest in CSR activities of construction ... -
Project Requirements Assignment Using BERT-Based Multilabel Classification and Interactive Mapping System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A well-developed construction project plan is essential for achieving desired outcomes by ensuring timely completion within budget. When planning construction projects using the design-bid-build (DBB) delivery method, ... -
Resilience-Oriented Analysis and Enhancement of Smart Infrastructure Using a Cyber-Physical-Social Dynamic Metanetwork Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Smart infrastructure (SI) leverages advanced smart technologies to enhance its situational awareness, monitoring, early warning, and forecasting capabilities. However, the deep integration and interdependence among cyber, ... -
Assessing and Predicting Damage to the Service Performance of Asphalt Mixtures under Snow-Melting Thermal Fatigue
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In winter, when electric heating pavements are melting snow and ice, the asphalt concrete often experiences freeze-thaw cycles that can easily lead to thermal fatigue damage to the pavement. Therefore, in this study, the ... -
Fatigue Performance of the Interface between Cement Asphalt Mortar and Concrete Slab for CRTS II Slab Track
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The interface between cement asphalt mortar (CAM) and concrete slab (CS) in the China railway track system (CRTS) II slab track is prone to fatigue failure in its service life. However, experimental research on its fatigue ... -
PFC-FLAC3D Coupled Modeling on Rammed Stone Columns
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A three-dimensional Particle Flow Code (PFC)-3D and Fast Lagrangian Analysis in the Continua (FLAC3D) coupled numerical model is presented in this study to investigate the bearing capacities of rammed stone columns (RSCs) ... -
Experimental Studies and Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Compatibility between SEBS and Asphalt
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study employs molecular simulation to construct styrene-ethylene-butadiene-styrene (SEBS)–modified asphalt at various temperatures and analyzes the structural changes during the blending process to investigate the ... -
Effect of Ageing on the Rheological and Chemical Characteristics of Bioasphalt
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The supply of crude oil-derived asphalt binder is in constant decline, whereas its demand is increasing steeply. The finite nature of asphalt binder coupled with escalating prices of crude oil demands exploration of renewable ... -
Freeze–Thaw Resistance and Microstructure of Reused Waterborne Unsaturated Polyester Concrete from PET Recycled Material for Pothole Repair of Asphalt Pavement
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Recycling and application of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles in road engineering is a promising utilization strategy for sustainable development. However, few studies have investigated the internal microstructure ... -
Dielectric Model Considering Interface Effects for Asphalt Mixtures Based on Spherical Polarization Theory
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Accurate measurement and calculation of the dielectric constant of asphalt mixture serve as fundamental steps for enhancing the precision of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) in asphalt pavement quality inspection. To establish ... -
Sustainable Pavement Solutions: A Study of the Performance of Permeable Asphalt Mixtures Incorporating Steel Slag and Recycled Concrete Aggregate
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study addresses the limitations of current research on the clogging mechanism of asphalt mixtures, which are constrained by costly and complex testing equipment. We introduce a novel method to assess the permeability ... -
Effect of Superabsorbent Polymer on the Rheological Behavior and Structural Evolution of Alkali-Activated Slag
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Utilizing superabsorbent polymers (SAP) in alkali activated slag (AAS) can promote internal curing and remarkably alleviate the shrinkage of AAS. This promising additive has attracted considerable attention for its potential ... -
Simulation of Real Pavement Texture Profiles Using the Discrete Element Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The simulation of pavement texture in the wearing layer helps to evaluate the texture characteristics, which is crucial for enhancing skid resistance and ensuring road safety. To investigate the simulation methodology for ... -
Effect of Bitumen Content on the Mechanical Properties of Composite Geotextile Produced with Hemp and Bitumen
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In order to maintain sustainability in construction, using natural materials instead of synthetic materials obtained from limited raw materials in nature is becoming increasingly widespread. In this study, the usability ... -
Comprehensive Study of the Properties and Microstructural Characteristics of Rubberized Concrete Using Destructive and Nondestructive Techniques
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In recent times, rubberized concrete (RubCrete) has been considered a sustainable solution to address various issues associated with the environmental impacts of the waste rubber (WasRub) sourced from end-of-life tires. ... -
Investigation of the Rutting Evolution of Double-Layered Heterogeneous Asphalt Pavement on a Steel Bridge Deck under the Coupling of Heavy Load and Variable Temperature
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper studies the rutting evolution of a gussasphalt (GA) and epoxy asphalt (EA) composite structure under the coupling of heavy load and variable temperature for a double-layered heterogeneous pavement structure of ... -
Improved Deformation Calculation Method for Immersed Tunnels Considering Siltation Effects: A Case Study of the Yongjiang Immersed Tunnel in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper introduces an advanced method for calculating the deformation of immersed tunnels when accounting for the impact of repeated siltation loads during maintenance. Based on the insights into the force and deformation ...