Construction EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Professor Michael C Forde

The University of Edinburgh
Institute for Infrastructure & Environment

and Building School of Engineering

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
SENIOR EDITOR
Professor Kent A Harries

MATERIALS
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Professor Masayusa Ohtsu
Kumamoto University
Graduate School of Science and Technology
Kumamoto, Japan

Professor Jose M. Adam
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia,
Spain
Professor Alejandro Durán Herrera
Head of Concrete Technology, Coordinator of
Internationalization, Faculty of Civil Engineering
Autonomous University of Nuevo León
Av. Universidad S/N, Cd. Universitaria
San Nicolas de Los Garza, N.L. 66451, Mexico
EDITORS
Professor Dimitrios Aggelis Professor Keith Crews
Department of Mechanics of Materials and Centre for Built Infrastructure Research
Constructions, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), University of Technology Sydney
Brussels, Belgium Sydney, Australia
Professor Carlton L. Ho Professor Erik Schlangen
Department of Civil and Environmental TU Delft/Civil Engineering & Geosciences
Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Materials & Environment - Microlab
Amherst, MA 01003-9293, USA Building 23, room 6.21, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft
The Netherlands

Professor Rafat Siddique Professor Scott Smith Professor Feipeng Xiao

Senior Professor of Civil Engineering Southern Cross University, School of Transportation Engineering
Former Dean of Faculty Affairs Australia Tongji University, Shanghai, P.R. China
Thapar University, Patiala (Punjab) 147004, India

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

G Airey, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK M Hall, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK M N Soutsos, University of Liverpool,
Liverpool, UK
I Al-Qadi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, P C Hewlett, University of Dundee, UK
Urbana, IL, USA V W Y Tam, University of Western Sydney,
K C Hover, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Sydney, NSW, Australia
N O Attoh-Okine, University of Delaware,
C K Y Leung, Hong Kong University of Science &
College of Engineering, 301 Du Pont Hall, J-G Teng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
Technology, Hong Kong, China
Newark, DE 19716, USA University, Hong Kong, China
P B Lourenco, Universidade do Minho, Azurém,
L C Bank, The City College of New York, I B Topçu, Eskisehir Osmangazi University,
Guimarães, Portugal
New York, NY, USA Eskisehir, Turkey
A Mirmiran, Florida International University,
P A M Basheer, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK D Van Gemert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Miami FL, USA
Heverlee, Belgium
L Binda, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
J Mirza, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
H G Wheat, The University of Texas at Austin,
A J Boyd, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
A S Nowak, Auburn University, AL, USA Austin, TX, USA
J H Bungey, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
S Rizkalla, North Carolina State University, F Xiao, Clemson University, Clemson, SC,
O Buyukozturk, Massachusetts Institute of Raleigh, USA USA
Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA
N G Shrive, University of Calgary, Calgary, M H Zhang, National University of Singapore
D M Frangopol, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA Canada (NUS), Singapore
O Gunes, Istanbul Technical University, K Sobolev, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
Istanbul, Turkey Milwaukee, WI, USA

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