International Journal of Lifecycle Performance Engineering  (IJLCPE)
ISSN (Online): 2043-8656  -  ISSN (Print): 2043-8648

Published in 4 issues per year  (View Subscription Price)

IJLCPE is founded on the basis that everyone operating in the design, construction and management of civil structures should consider with increasingly deep understanding that each decision they make and each action they take is constrained by a condition of limited resources. Therefore, it is of paramount importance that they take into account that structures have a finite lifetime and are involved in an aging process in which slow degradation and sudden environmental threats play a role and risk evolves to higher values, all of which implies additional costs.

   Objectives

The objectives of IJLCPE are to establish an effective channel of communication between scientific researchers, professional engineers, construction companies, managers and administrations, aiming to promote the philosophy of lifecycle performance oriented design and construction and to contribute to tracing a pathway towards more suitable maintenance and exploitation procedures and to establish rational and consistent bases to support management and related decision making.

   Readership

IJLCPE provides a vehicle to help professionals, academics, researchers and policy makers, working in the field of civil construction management and exploitation, engineering and technical education, to disseminate information and to learn from each other's work

   Contents

IJLCPE publishes original papers, review papers and technical reports. Special Issues devoted to important topics in scientific and technological advances, very important case studies and conference reports will occasionally be published.

   Subject Coverage

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

• Damage evolution and risk analysis
• Time dependent structural performance and lifecycle behaviour
• Environmental threats (earthquakes, floods, strong winds) and residual safety analysis
• Fatigue
• Corrosion
• Degradation and aging of structural materials
• Robustness and vulnerability to local explosions and fires
• Infrastructural and urban system resilience
• Lifecycle oriented design criteria
• Maintenance planning
• Lifecycle and retrofit
• Safety assessment by structural health monitoring
• Case studies

     Specific Notes for Authors
  

  Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and the author has cleared any necessary permissions with the copyright owner if it has been previously copyrighted). All authors must declare they have read and agreed to the content of the submitted manuscript. A full statement of our Ethical Guidelines for Authors is available.

  All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines web-page.

  To submit a paper, please go to Submissions of Papers

  All papers must be submitted online. If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contact submissions@inderscience.com, describing the exact problem you experience. Please include in your email the title of the Journal.

  
  

     Editors and Members of the Editorial Board
  

  Editor in Chief

  Prof. Alessandro De Stefano
  Politecnico di Torino
  Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale e Geotecnica
  Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24
  10129, Turin
  ITALY
  IJLCPEpolito.it
  
  

  Associate Editors

  Prof. Franco Bontempi
  Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
  ITALY

  Prof. Jaime C. Galvez
  Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  SPAIN

  Regional Editor Africa

  Prof. Alphose Zingoni
  University of Cape Town
  SOUTH AFRICA

  Regional Editor Far East and Oceania

  Prof. Hong Hao
  University of Western Australia
  AUSTRALIA

  Regional Editor Russia

  Oleg B. Vitrik
  Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Division
  RUSSIAN FEDERATION

  Regional Editor South America

  Prof. Daniel Ambrosini
  Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
  ARGENTINA

  Regional Editor USA

  Dr. Dionisio Bernal
  Northeastern University
  USA

  Assistant Editor

  Dr. Gian Paolo Cimellaro
  Politecnico di Torino
  ITALY

  Editorial Board Members

  Prof. A. Emin AktanA.
  Drexel University
  USA

  Prof. Demos AngelidesDe
  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  GREECE

  Dr. Pierre ArgoulPi
  ENPC PARIS - École des Ponts ParisTech
  FRANCE

  Prof. Raimondo BettiRa
  Columbia University
  USA

  Prof. James M.W. BrownjohnJa
  University of Sheffield
  UK

  Prof. Ceslaw CempelCe
  Poznań University of Technology
  POLAND

  Dr. Paolo ClementePa
  ENEA Research Center Casaccia
  ITALY

  Prof. Guido De RoekGu
  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  BELGIUM

  Prof. Yozo FujinoYo
  University of Tokyo
  JAPAN

  Dr. Daniele InaudiDa
  Roctest Ltd - SMARTEC SA
  SWITZERLAND

  Prof. Pier Giorgio MalerbaPi
  Politecnico di Milano
  ITALY

  Prof. Luis Esteva MarabotoLu
  UNAM
  MEXICO

  Prof. Robert E MelchersRo
  University of Newcastle
  AUSTRALIA

  Prof. Masoud MotavalliMa
  University of Tehran, ETH Zürich and EMPA - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research
  SWITZERLAND

  Prof. Dr. Yuri PetrynaYu
  Technische Universität Berlin
  GERMANY

  Dr. Ing. Werner RückerWe
  BAM Berlin
  GERMANY

  Prof. Wei-Xin RenWe
  Central South University
  CHINA

  Helmut WenzelHe
  VCE - Vienna Consulting Engineers
  AUSTRIA

  Prof. Zhishen WuZh
  Ibaraki University
  JAPAN