Infrastructures, Volume 10, Issue 12

The role of last-mile delivery professionals is becoming increasingly vital in modern urban logistics, driven by the rapid expansion of e-commerce and rising consumer expectations for fast and reliable services. This study aimed to analyse the decisi...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based photogrammetric reconstruction is a key step in geometric digital twinning of bridges, but ensuring the quality of the reconstruction data through the planning of measurement configurations is not straightforward....

Expansive soils undergo significant volume changes with moisture fluctuations, posing persistent challenges for infrastructure due to heave, settlement, and loss of bearing capacity. Stabilization is a common mitigation strategy, though traditional b...

In cold regions, flexible pavements are vulnerable to frost-induced damage, necessitating effective insulation strategies. Foam glass aggregate (FGA) insulation layers, made from recycled glass, offer promising thermal insulation properties but are m...

Timely and accurate inspection of concrete bridges is critical to ensuring structural integrity and public safety. Traditional visual inspections conducted by human inspectors are labour-intensive, inconsistent, and often limited in their ability to...

As climate change increases the frequency and unpredictability of natural hazards, adapting critical infrastructure is crucial for long-term resilience. Among these hazards, embankment fires pose a growing threat to railway systems, particularly unde...

Asphalt pavements incorporating recycled and sustainable materials have become a widely adopted strategy in road construction, particularly with the use of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) and crumb rubber (CR) derived from waste tires. However, the...

Embankment structures in civil engineering, such as earth dams and fluvial dikes, have a crucial role in society. These structures, often used for water storage and mining tailing containment, are cost-effective due to their reliance on locally sourc...

In thick continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP), thicknesses greater than 356 mm, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) places longitudinal steel in two mats, with equal amount of steel in both top and bottom mats. These longitudin...

Local scour around pile-group foundations is a predominant cause of hydraulic instability in bridge engineering. This study employs a fully coupled three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model to investigate local scour around a 2 × 2 i...