International Journal of Sustainable Materials and Structural Systems  (IJSMSS)
ISSN (Online): 2043-863X  -  ISSN (Print): 2043-8621

Published in 4 issues per year  (View Subscription Price)

IJSMSS promotes and fosters discussion involving sustainable materials, components, structures, and infrastructural systems, with emphasis on technical advances in sustainable materials and structural systems. The journal covers both basic and applied research in physics, engineering and materials science over different time and space scales and also industrial applications.

   Objectives

The primary goal of IJSMSS is to provide a permanent record of achievement in the science, technology and engineering application of sustainable materials, structures, and infrastructure systems.

   Readership

IJSMSS is intended for an audience of researchers, educators, practitioners, infrastructure management stakeholders and policy makers world-wide working in developing sustainable materials, structures and infrastructure systems with a background in material, chemical, civil, environmental, aerospace, mechanical, petrochemical, marine and automotive engineering.

   Contents

The central aim of the IJSMSS is to publish a broad blend of scientific, technical and practical papers, current literature reviews, technical and interpretive notes, brief communications, and book reviews. Special Issues devoted to important topics in scientific and technological advances, very important case studies and conference reports will occasionally be published.

   Subject Coverage

Coverage includes methodologies, theories, models, techniques, hardware and software development as well as case studies and practical applications, with emphasis on, but not limited to:

• Development of sustainable materials with high performances, long life cycles, low life cycle costs, high resource productivity, high recyclability, high energy efficiency and multi-functionality such as long life cycle materials, smart materials, environmentally adaptable materials, eco-friendly materials, biodiversity-natural materials, healthy materials, green composites and recyclable materials, etc.
• Molecular, nano-, micro- and macro- structures/processability/characterization and evaluation of sustainable materials for specific applications
• Eco- and life cycle approaches to materials and structural systems design and management including policy, standards and regulations
• Alternative material, microstructure control and nanocomposite technologies
• Material and structural reliability, durability and life assessment under composite/severe environmental loading
• Intelligent, nature mimicking, biological, bio/life-inspired materials/elements/structures/infrastructures design concepts and technologies
• Carbon reduction, environment adaption, environmental and disaster impact monitoring and control technologies for sustainable structural systems
• Risk and vulnerability modelling, quantification, analysis, criteria and decision support systems development for assessing robustness and sustainability of materials and structural systems
• Applications of particular interest include sustainable materials and structures development for potential use in sectors such as aerospace, space and ocean development, civil infrastructure, energy, transportation, communication, environmental protection, safety and security etc.
• Structural acoustic control, distributed control, analogue and digital feedback control, real-time implementation, adaptive structural stability, damage implications for structural control
• Sustainable repair, strengthening, rehabilitation, maintenance, management techniques and systems

   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 Submission of Papers web-page.

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details of file formats in Author Guidelines) to: Professor Zhishen Wu, below

Please include in your submission the title of the Journal

   Editors and Members of the Editorial Board

Editor in Chief

Zhishen Wu
Ibaraki University
College of Engineering
Department of Urban and Civil Engineering
Hitachi Campus, 4-12-1 Nakanarusawa-cho
Hitachi, Ibaraki 316-8511
JAPAN
zswumx.ibaraki.ac.jp

Managing Editor

Fuh-Gwo Yuan
North Carolina State University
USA

Technical and Operations Editor

Mohammad Noori
California Polytechnic State University
USA

Associate Editors

Victor Giurgiutiu
University of South Carolina
USA

Thomas Keller
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL
SWITZERLAND

Jinping Ou
Dalian University of Technology
CHINA

Editorial Co-ordinator

Xin Wang
Southeast University
CHINA

Editorial Board Members

Daniel L. BalageasDa
French Aerospace Lab (ONERA)
FRANCE

Nemkumar BanthiaNe
University of British Columbia
CANADA

Zdenek P. BazantZd
Northwestern University
USA

James M.W. BrownjohnJa
University of Sheffield
UK

Oral BuyukozturkOr
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
USA

Alessandro De StefanoAl
Politecnico di Torino
ITALY

Yozo FujinoYo
University of Tokyo
JAPAN

Hanbin GeHa
Meijo University
JAPAN

Yaojun GeYa
Tongji University
CHINA

Hamid GhasemiHa
Federal Highway Administration
USA

Muneo HoriMu
University of Tokyo
JAPAN

Seyoung ImSe
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, KAIST
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF

Kazuro KageyamaKa
University of Tokyo
JAPAN

Minoru KanehiraMi
Chinese Academy of Sciences
CHINA

Vistasp M. KarbhariVi
University of Alabama in Huntsville
USA

Kazuhiko KasaiKa
Tokyo Institute of Technology
JAPAN

Jeong-Tae KimJe
Pukyong National University
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF

Hui LiHu
Harbin Institute of Technology
CHINA

Yung C. LiangYu
National University of Singapore
SINGAPORE

Zhitao LuZh
Southeast University
CHINA

Jerome LynchJe
University of Michigan
USA

Ali MaherAl
Rutgers University
USA

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

Jian-Guo NieJi
Tsinghua University
CHINA

Hans W. ReinhardtHa
University of Stuttgart
GERMANY

Sami H. RizkallaSa
North Carolina State University
USA

Bill F. Spencer, Jr.Bi
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
USA

Wei SunWe
Southeast University
CHINA

Luc R. TaerweLu
Ghent University
BELGIUM

Jin-Guang TengJi
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
HONG KONG

Thanasis C. TriantafillouTh
University of Patras
GREECE

Felix WuFe
National Institute of Standards and Technology
USA

Peter WuPe
Spirit Aerospace Systems
USA

Zhou XuhongZh
Lanzhou University
CHINA

Zhong YouZh
Oxford University
UK