2026 June - 29 articles
Road tunnel ventilation systems have traditionally been designed to dilute vehicle-generated pollutants and control smoke during fires. However, the thermal environment, including temperature and humidity, is not the variable taken into consideration...
Well-point dewatering can rapidly lower the level of groundwater, making the capillary zone fall below the depth at which the subgrade is frozen. This can have the effect of inhibiting frost heave in the subgrade. This paper draws upon a project focu...
This study presents an AI-enabled framework for automated pavement condition assessment in urban environments by integrating YOLOv8-based distress detection, computational Pavement Condition Index (PCI) estimation, and comparative validation against...
The increasing generation of waste toner from printers and photocopiers presents significant environmental and disposal challenges. This study investigates the feasibility of utilizing waste toner as a modifier in asphalt binder to enhance performanc...
Understanding and accurately predicting the outflow hydrograph from embankment dam breaches is essential for managing the associated flood hazard and improving emergency preparedness. This work simulates the breaching process using a high-resolution...
This study investigates the feasibility, accuracy, and data-sufficiency requirements of smartphone- and smartwatch-based crowdsensing for pedestrian bridge modal identification under real-world conditions. Full-scale experiments were conducted on a b...
This study aims to develop a decision-making framework for equalizing urban electric vehicle (EV) charging services, which is applied to improve Wuhan’s charging infrastructure. Using grid units as the basic analytical units, the study construc...
Crack opening and reinforcement stress are two complementary indicators of the service state of reinforced concrete hydraulic structures, yet they are often predicted separately. This study develops a data-driven multi-task temporal fusion framework...
Pavement damages along the Qinghai–Xizang Highway (QXH) in permafrost regions are jointly controlled by geographical and engineering factors, leading to higher damage rates than in non-permafrost regions. However, the overall development trend...
Connected vehicle platforms enable large-scale collection of vehicle dynamics data from production fleets, creating opportunities for passive roadway monitoring using onboard sensing systems. While existing vibration-based approaches primarily focus...
The incorporation of crumb rubber derived from waste tires in asphalt pavements has gained increasing attention as a strategy to enhance performance while reducing environmental impacts, particularly in cold regions such as the Midwestern United Stat...
The need for potentially more sustainable road rehabilitation solutions has driven the use of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) in bituminous mixtures. However, high-RAP content remains a technical challenge due to binder ageing, which increases mixtu...
Vibration-based Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) exploits automated Operational Modal Analysis (OMA) to track changes in modal parameters over time for subsequent statistical pattern recognition and anomaly detection. However, weak excitation, meas...
Large civil infrastructures, including high-rise buildings, bridges, offshore platforms, transmission towers, tall chimneys, basements below the water table, etc., are often supported on pile foundations. Apart from the usual dead loads and live load...
This study presents a replicable diagnostic framework for analysing latent safety vulnerability at complex junctions by integrating UAV-based observation, trajectory extraction, movement-level operational performance modelling, and regulatory benchma...
This study investigates asphalt mixture workability using a high-capacity torque-based device under semi-industrial laboratory conditions. Unlike conventional laboratory-scale mixers, the proposed system accommodates batch sizes up to 15 kg, enabling...
To investigate the rheological properties and compositional changes in SBS-modified bitumen under different aging conditions in the unique environmental conditions of the Xinjiang region, this study selected a local 70# base bitumen from Xinjiang and...
Regulations in Poland require acceptance load tests to verify bridge response under moving loads before structures are approved for operation. These tests are mandatory for new bridges, after major renovations, and for reconstructed structures, and m...
This article presents the results of tests evaluating the physical and mechanical properties of a modified hydraulic concrete formulation based on Portland cement, intended for use in general construction. The additive consists of post-alcohol distil...
Agricultural biomass ashes are increasingly used as sustainable supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) to reduce cement-related carbon emissions and improve concrete performance. However, their effects on compressive strength depend on the SCM t...
Analog, paper-based workflows remain the norm in the condition assessment of reinforced concrete infrastructure, limiting the efficiency with which diagnostic data can be used in maintenance planning. In this research, a pre-processing procedure and...
Ground-penetrating radar is widely used in non-destructive pavement evaluation, but the occurrence of multiple hyperbolic signatures in radargrams of cracked pavements remains insufficiently characterized, particularly for top-down and bottom-up crac...
To investigate the influence of isolation-layer eccentricity on the torsional response of step-terrace mountain (STM) structures, a 1:10 scaled reinforced concrete model was designed and tested using shaking table experiments. Both isolated and non-i...
The pavement surface temperatures in Iraq are remarkably high, causing the asphalt to deteriorate quickly, shortening its service life. While a large amount of corn husk, an agricultural waste, is available for use as an asphalt modifier, researchers...
To balance ultra-early strength development and workable time in cement-based grouting materials for rapid repair applications, an ultra-early high-strength grout system was developed by regulating the dosage of an accelerating agent (CF), retarder c...
The large-scale accumulation of coal gangue has created increasing environmental pressure, while its use as aggregate in cementitious materials remains limited by its high water absorption, porous structure and unstable mechanical performance. This s...
This study aims to explore a leakage-aware and explainable machine learning framework for predicting tunnel water inrush quantity (WIQ) under small-sample and high-heterogeneity geological conditions. A project-level dataset was compiled at a fixed s...
This study investigates upper-reservoir dam-axis siting in pumped-storage hydropower projects, where cut–fill balance and construction cost are critical under complex terrain conditions. Existing approaches still rely heavily on manual interpre...
This perspective paper develops a system-level characterization of the transportation metaverse as a persistent, policy-aware digital environment integrating digital twins, real-time data, advanced analytics, and human–machine interaction into...
