Announcement of call for papers for CLSF-Issue, in 2019
Subject: Announcement and invitation of call for abstracts and papers contributed to the Special Issue of SEAGS_AGSSEA Journal (2019)
◆Theme: Cyclic Loading of Soils and Foundations
◆Aim and Scope:
Infra-structures and private residences are in many occasions situated under cyclic/transient/dynamic loading and are sometimes endangered to disasters and damage caused by Cyclic/transient/dynamic loading actions. Although the geotechnical issues on cyclic loading of soils and foundations have frequently been focused on the earthquakes and their relative topics as the most important subject, foundations and structures are placed on the cyclic situations which are different from the earthquake. Traffic loading on highway, railway and airport is counted as one of the important issues in civil engineering practices to maintain sustainable human lives. Besides this, coastal structures are also required to provide high durability undergoing severe ocean wave assailing, particularly under climate change associated by global warming. Apart from these situations, machine foundations and foundations followed by pile driving and dynamic compaction are also situated under cyclic loading.
This issue aims to begin with the state-of-the-art review on cyclic loading of soils and foundations and thereafter to include the papers on the recent topics from the case histories at fields and the academic experiences from various kinds of cyclic loading situations as sated above. Contribution from the specifically new aspects related to cyclic loading except the above stated situations are also welcome.
◆Examples of the Topic: The special issues includes cyclic loading events in geotechnical engineering (CLSF in abbreviation), such as:
(1) Case histories associated with geotechnical issues of earth structures and foundations under cyclic, transient and dynamic loading situations
(2) Clarification of behavioral mechanism of various kinds of soils under cyclic loading using numerical analysis, laboratory experiments and field investigation
(3) Risk management of climate change-related geo-disasters and environmental impacts
(4) Solution of difficult and important geotechnical practices such as in pile driving, dynamic compaction or blasting at foundations
(5) Cyclic loading issues arisen from the situations in using CPT, STP or recently advance techniques used for field investigations
(6) Countermeasures and adaptive measures against geo-disasters and environmental impacts triggered from cyclic loading events
◆Time line:
For this CLSF Issue about 15 through 20 papers are envisaged with consideration of balances among topics, expertise and countries. The following is the provisional schedule for this issue:
(1) Call for paper abstracts starting from as soon as possible. Deadline of abstract is due to 30th April, 2018.
(2) Full paper submission (on or before 24 December 2018)
(3) Revision to and finalization of papers (before 24 June 2019)
(4) Manuscripts ready for publication (30 September 2019)
(5) CLSF Issue appears in December 2019
◆Journal for SEAGS: (Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society) & AGSSEA. (Association of Geotechnical Societies in South East Asia)
Journal is an open access, specialized, peer-reviewed, Journal for SEAGS: (Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society) & AGSSEA. (Association of Geotechnical Societies in South East Asia) that focuses on research, development and application within the fields of geotechnical engineering and technology. Published four times per year, it tries to give its contribution for enhancement of research studies.
Contributions must be original, not previously or simultaneously published elsewhere. Accepted papers are available freely with full-text content upon receiving the final versions, and will be indexed at major academic databases.
• Papers should be written in English.
• The acceptance number of papers is less than 15.
• All articles are sent for blind peer review, with a fast and without delay review procedure (within approximately one month of submission).
• Submitted papers should follow the format of the sample article attached.
• Submissions are accepted via e-mail of each of them shown below as co-chairs and co-secretaries:
●Co-chairs
Dr. Kazuya YASUHARA, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Global Change Adaptation Science (ICAS), Ibaraki University, 2-1-1 Bunkyo, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan e-mail address: kazuya.yasuhara.0927@vc.ibaraki.ac.jp
Dr. Buddhima INDRARATNA, Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia-2522 e-mail address: indra@uow.edu.au
●Co-secretaries:
Dr. Tadao ENOMOTO, Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Civil Engineering, 4-12-1, Nakanarusawa, Hitachi 312-8511, Ibaraki University, Japan e-mail address: tadao.enomoto.geote@vc.ibaraki.ac.jp
etDr. Jayan S. VINOD, Associate Professor, School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia-2522 e-mail address: vinod@uow.edu.au
