Newsletter May 2025 📩

ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems - Call for Papers

Part A: Civil Engineering, and Part B. Mechanical Engineering

The Editorial Board of the ASCE-ASME Journal invites contributions presenting state-of-the-art research and best practices for addressing risk, disaster and failure-related challenges arising from uncertainty. We particularly welcome emerging research relating to availability and processing of big data, including data driven decision support, machine learning and further computational intelligence tools relating to risk and uncertainty.

How to submit:

Part A:  https://ascelibrary.org/journal/ajrua6

Part B:  http://risk.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/journal.aspx

Editorial Message

The Bilal M. Ayyub Research Award for Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems for the Best Paper in Part A of the Journal goes to Bilal M. Ayyub, Ramsay Sawaya, David T. Butry, Yumi Oum and Vincent Loh for their paper “Risk Tolerance, Aversion, and Economics of Energy Utilities in Community Resilience to Wildfires” (DOI: 10.1061/AJRUA6.RUENG-1254), published in the June Issue of Part A in 2024. The Bilal M. Ayyub Research Prize for Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems for the Best Paper in Part B of the Journal goes to Luca Caracoglia for his paper “Improving Output Power of a Torsional-Flutter Harvester in Stochastic Thunderstorms by Duffing—Van Der Pol Restoring Torque” (DOI: 10.1115/1.4065532), published in the December Issue of Part B in 2024. The award will be given during the International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition ( IMECE ), held at the Renasant Convention Center, Memphis, TN, November 16–20, 2025. We congratulate the winners with highest appreciation and thanks for their outstanding contributions to the journal. A particular feature of our journal is its multi-disciplinary character, which facilitates the publication of synergetic developments between different communities. In this regard, I would like to draw your attention to some upcoming conferences, which involve our journal as an outlet for publishing contributions across disciplines. I would like to encourage you to utilize this opportunity to network, to establish new collaborative links, to expand collaboration and to develop innovative contributions to the journal out of synergetic connections.

The next opportunities are ASME’s International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, IMECE 2025 (Memphis, TN, USA, November 16–20, 2025), the European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2026 (Braga, Portugal, June 14-19, 2026), the 10th International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management, ISRERM 2026 (Sapporo, Japan, June 28-July 1, 2026), the 11th International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing, REC 2026 (Dortmund, Germany, September 2-4, 2026), and the 13th International Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2026 , September 27 – October 1, 2026, Hannover, Germany). I would also like to announce that the first ESRA World Conference that will be held at Chongqing University, China in April 2027, which offers a broad spectrum of multi-disciplinary opportunities to develop contributions to our journal. I hope to see you at some of these occasions.

Please contact the Editor or the Managing Editors by email if you have an interest to guest edit a special collection (Part A) or a special issue (Part B).

Both Part A and Part B are listed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index by Clarivate Analytics , formerly Thomson Reuters, with Part A being indexed since 2019. From 2016 onward, all articles are included in Web of Science and Scopus .

Statement on Open Access

The editorial team motivates authors to share their pre-prints and/or accepted versions of their paper via institutional or other repositories, scientific social networks or personal websites in the spirit of Open Science. Please make sure to abide by embargos and other Journal Policies, which can be found here for part A  and  here for part B .

Based on the latest Journal Citation Report by Clarivate Analytics , Part A has an impact factor for 2023 of 2.3.

Part A Civil Engineering - News

Update your library with the latest reading from the ASCE-ASME JRUES journals:

LATEST ISSUES

❖ V11-3: September 2025 (in progress)

❖ V11-2: June 2025

❖ V11-1: March 2025

❖ V10-4: December 2024

❖ V10-3: September 2024

❖ V10-2: June 2024

❖ V10-1: March 2024

LATEST REVIEWS

• Geotechnical “Facial Recognition” Challenge
  Kok-Kwang Phoon, Yongmin Cai, Chong Tang

• Variability in Geostructural Performance Predictions
  Chong Tang, Kok-Kwang Phoon, Jun Yuan, Yuanqin Tao, Honglei Sun

• Advantages and Limitations of Bayesian Approaches to Decision-Making in Construction Management: A Critical Review (1988–2023)
  Guillermo Mejía, Jaime A. Gutiérrez-Prada, Oscar H. Portilla-Carreño, Jonathan Soto-Paz

• Comparison between Distance Functions for Approximate Bayesian Computation to Perform Stochastic Model Updating and Model Validation under Limited Data
  Adolphus Lye, Scott Ferson, Sicong Xiao

• What Geotechnical Engineers Want to Know about Reliability
  Kok-Kwang Phoon

• Resilience-Based Design of Infrastructure: Review of Models, Methodologies, and Computational Tools
  Mahdi Shadabfar, Mojtaba Mahsuli, Yi Zhang, Yadong Xue, Bilal M. Ayyub, Hongwei Huang, Ricardo A. Medina

• Time-Dependent Reliability of Aging Structures: Overview of Assessment Methods
  Cao Wang, Michael Beer, Bilal M. Ayyub

• Structural System Reliability: Overview of Theories and Applications to Optimization
  Junho Song, Won-Hee Kang, Young-Joo Lee, Junho Chun

• Emerging Technologies for Resilient Infrastructure: Conspectus and Roadmap
  Mahmoud Reda Taha, Bilal M. Ayyub, Kenichi Soga, Sherif Daghash, Daniel Heras Murcia, Fernando Moreu, Eslam Soliman

• Probabilistic Inference for Structural Health Monitoring: New Modes of Learning from Data
  Lawrence A. Bull, Paul Gardner, Timothy J. Rogers, Elizabeth J. Cross

LATEST SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

• Vulnerability Analysis, Risk Management, and Uncertainty Modelling Analysis , Jie Li, Michael Beer, Yong-Bo Peng, Jian-Bing Chen

• Uncertainty Quantification for Machine Learning in Engineering , Wang-JI Yan, Costas Papadimitriou, Michael Beer, Feng Ke

• Risk and Reliability Analysis of Resilient Civil Engineering Structures with Vibration Control Devices , Said Elias Rahimi, Mario D’Aniello, Hussam Mahmoud

• Resilience of Power Infrastructure , Wei Zhang, Ge Ou, Youngjib Ham, Zongjie Wang

• Non-Deterministic Model Updating and Structural Health Monitoring for Existing Structures , Sifeng Bi, Matteo Broggi, Takayuki Shuku

• New Technologies in Risk Assessment of Maritime Transport , Qing Yu, Jakub Montewka, Floris Goerlandt, Chengpeng Wan, Zhisen Yang, Zaili Yang

• Extreme Damage Mechanics for Lifecycle Fatigue Resilience of Infrastructure Systems , Xuhong Zhou, Yongtao Bai, Frederic Ragueneau, Julio Florez-Lopez

• Advances in Efficient Methods in Random Fields Modeling and Analysis , Zhenhao Zhang, De-Cheng Feng, You Dong, Emilio Bastidas-Arteaga

• Benchmarking Data-Driven Site Characterization , Kok-Kwang Phoon, Takayuki Shuku, Jianye Ching, Ikumasa Yoshida

• Structural Time-Dependent Reliability Assessment: Advanced Approaches for Engineered Structures , Cao Wang, Hao Zhang, Michael Beer

Full list of Special Collections

Please contact the Editor or Managing Editors by email if you are interested in guest editing a Special Collection (Part A)

CALL FOR PAPERS - Part A

• Special Collection on Advances in Bayesian Inference for Structural Health Monitoring . Paper submission deadline: October 31, 2025.

• Special Issue on Advances in Numerical and Experimental Methods for Uncertainty Quantification in Engineering . Paper submission deadline: September 30, 2025.

• Special Collection on Advanced Numerical Techniques and Engineering Applications for Uncertainty Propagation in High-Dimensional Stochastic Systems . Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2025.

• Special Collection on Forward Uncertainty Quantification for Aleatory & Epistemic Uncertainties: Methodologies, Tools, and Applications . Paper submission deadline: July 31, 2025.

Part A - Awards & Recognitions

Editor’s Choice Paper

Variability in Geostructural Performance Predictions by Chong Tang, Kok-Kwang Phoon, Jun Yuan, Yuanqin Tao, Honglei Sun

Most Read Paper

Benchmarking Data-Driven Site Characterization , by Kok-Kwang Phoon, Takayuki Shuku, Jianye Ching, and Ikumasa Yoshida

Most Cited Paper

What Geotechnical Engineers Want to Know about Reliability by Kok-Kwang Phoon

Editor’s Choice Collection

For each issue of the journal, the Chief Editor may select a paper to be featured on the journal homepage in the ASCE Library. The paper is available for free to registered users for 1 to 4 months, depending on how frequently the journal is published. A list of Editor’s Choice selections is available  here .

2024 Outstanding Reviewers

Xinjian Wang ■ Babatunde Oluwaseun Ajayi ■ Marco Behrendt ■ Marcos Valdebenito ■ Ali Amini ■ Caroline Pinheiro Maurieli Morais ■ Maxim A. Dulebenets ■ Peiyuan Lin ■ Sifeng Bi ■ Jiayao Chen

Bilal M. Ayyub Research Award for Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering

Established in 2019, the Editor’s Award is given annually to one paper in Part A appearing in the preceding volume year. Starting from 2022, the Editor’s Award for Part A was named “Bilal M. Ayyub Research Award” in recognition of the outstanding professional leadership of the founding Editor-in-Chief, Professor Bilal M. Ayyub, Dist. M. ASCE and Hon. M. ASME.

The awarded papers are made freely available from the ASCE Library for one year to anyone interested once registered and logged in to download.

*Recipients of the 2024 Bilal M. Ayyub Research Award:

Authors: Bilal M. Ayyub, Ramsay Sawaya, David T. Butry, Jennifer Helgeson, Yumi Oum, Vincent Loh Title: Risk Tolerance, Aversion, and Economics of Energy Utilities in Community Resilience to Wildfires

The award will be presented to the authors in attendance at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition ([IMECE]https://event.asme.org/IMECE) which will be held during the period November 16-20, 2025, Memphis, TN, USA

Based on the latest Journal Citation Report by Clarivate Analytics , Part A has an impact factor for 2023 of 1.8.

Part B Mechanical Engineering - News

Update your library with the latest reading from the ASCE-ASME JRUES journals:

LATEST ISSUES

❖ V11-4: December 2025 (in progress)

❖ V11-3: September 2025 (in progress)

❖ V11-2: June 2025

❖ V11-1: March 2025

❖ V10-4: December 2024

❖ V10-3: September 2024

❖ V10-2: June 2024

❖ V10-1: March 2024

LATEST REVIEWS

• A Recent Review of Risk-Based Inspection Development to Support Service Excellence in the Oil and Gas Industry: An Artificial Intelligence Perspective , by Taufik Aditiyawarman, Agus Paul Setiawan Kaban, Johny Wahyuadi Soedarsono

• Prognostics and Health Management of Wind Energy Infrastructure Systems , by Celalettin Yüce, Ozhan Gecgel, Oğuz Doğan, Shweta Dabetwar, Yasar Yanik, Onur Can Kalay, Esin Karpat, Fatih Karpat, Stephen Ekwaro-Osire

• Uncertainty Quantification for Additive Manufacturing Process Improvement: Recent Advances , by Sankaran Mahadevan, Paromita Nath, Zhen Hu

• Optimizing Predictive Maintenance With Machine Learning for Reliability Improvement , by Yali Ren

• Path Integral Methods for the Probabilistic Analysis of Nonlinear Systems Under a White-Noise Process , by Mario Di Paola and Gioacchino Alotta

LATEST SPECIAL ISSUES

• Reliability Modeling and Assessment of Complex Engineering Systems with Mixed Uncertainty Lechang Yang, Matthias Faes, Yi Zhang, Xiaoge Zhang, Min Xie

• Uncertainty-Aware Diagnostics and Prognostics for Health Monitoring and Risk Management of Engineered Systems
  Chen Jiang, Zhen Hu, Alba Sofi, Liang Gao, Haobo Qiu, Byeng D. Youn

• Probabilistic Digital Twins in Additive Manufacturing
  Zequn Wang, Zhen Hu, Moon Seung Ki, Qi Zhou, Hong-Zhong Huang

• Modeling and Analysis of Inspection Uncertainties in Structural Health Monitoring
  Yi Zhang, Chul-Woo Kim, Yan-Gang Zhao, Pei-Pei Li

• Digital Twins: A New Frontier in Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience
  Nii Attoh-Okine

• Decommissioning and Life Extension of Complex Industrial Assets
  Raphael Moura, Michael Beer, Gilberto Francisco Martha de Souza, and Edoardo Patelli

• Risk, Resilience, and Reliability for Autonomous Vehicle Technologies: Trend, Techniques, and Challenges
  Mohammad Pourgol-Mohammad, Arun Veeramany, Bilal Ayyub

• Probabilistic Approaches for Robust Structural Health Monitoring of Wind Energy Infrastructure
  Imad Abdallah and Eleni Chatzi

• Uncertainty Quantification and Management in Additive Manufacturing
  Zhen Hu, Saideep Nannapaneni, Sankaran Mahadevan

• Risk and Uncertainties in Offshore Wind and Wave Energy Systems
  Vikram Pakrashi, Jimmy Murphy, Budhaditya Hazra

• Nonprobabilistic and Hybrid Approaches for Uncertainty Quantification and Reliability Analysis
  Matthias G.R. Faes, David Moens, Michael Beer, Hao Zhang, Kok-Kwang Phoon

Please contact the Editor or Managing Editors by email if you are interested in guest editing a Special Section/Issue (Part B).

Call for Papers - Part B

• Special Issue on Cognitive Digital Twins for Predictive Maintenance: Uncertainty and Risk Analysis . Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2026.

• Special Issue on Design of Large-scale Complex Systems under Uncertainty: Translating Theory to Practice . Paper submission deadline: August 31, 2025.

• Special Issue on Reliability Assessment and Quality Assurance of Industrial Equipment . Paper submission deadline: September 15, 2025.

Part B - Awards & Recognitions

Most Read Paper

On the Consistent Classification and Treatment of Uncertainties in Structural Health Monitoring Applications by Antonios Kamariotis, Konstantinos Vlachas, Vasileios Ntertimanis, Ioannis Koune, Alice Cicirello, Eleni Chatzi

Most Cited Paper

Digital Twins: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions for Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Dynamics Applications , by D. J. Wagg, K. Worden, R. J. Barthorpe, P. Gardner

Featured Article

A Transfer Learning-Based Multi-Fidelity Point-Cloud Neural Network Approach for Melt Pool Modeling in Additive Manufacturing by Xufeng Huang, Tingli Xie, Zhuo Wang, Lei Chen, Qi Zhou, Zhen Hu

Reviewers of the Year 2024

Zan Yang (Nanchang University, China) ■ André T. Beck (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Associate Editors of the Year 2024

Zhen Hu (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA) ■ Sifeng Bi (University of Southampton, UK)

Bilal M. Ayyub Research Prize for Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering

Established in 2019, the Editor’s Award is given annually to one paper in Part B. Starting from 2022, the Editor’s Award for Part B was named “Bilal M. Ayyub Research Prize” in recognition of the outstanding professional leadership of the founding Editor-in-Chief, Professor Bilal M. Ayyub, Dist. M. ASCE and Hon. M. ASME.

The awarded papers are made freely available from the ASME Digital Collection (Part B) for one year to anyone interested once registered and logged in to download. Moreover, ASME offers the authors a one-year free subscription to Part B.

Recipients of the 2024 Bilal M. Ayyub Research Prize

Authors: Luca Caracoglia Title: Improving Output Power of a Torsional-Flutter Harvester in Stochastic Thunderstorms by Duffing—Van Der Pol Restoring Torque

The award will be presented to the authors in attendance at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition ( IMECE ) which will be held during the period November 16-20, 2025, Memphis, TN, USA,

EARLY CAREER EDITORIAL BOARD

Starting in 2020, the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems in its two parts has implemented the  Early Career Editorial Board (ECEB)  program to bring young members onboard its editorial board under the mentorship of the journal leadership.

ECEB members typically have a net academic age of 1-3 years. The term of an ECEB member is 2 years with the possibility for renewal into a second term.

New Cycle of the ASCE Journals’ Early Career Editorial Board The goal of the journal is to further welcome two to four ECEB members on the editorial board. Potential candidates are required to have at least six publications within the last 5 years, which may include their Ph.D. study dissertation. The submission deadline is May 31, 2025. Applications will be reviewed by an ad hoc committee from the journal leadership. Applicants will be informed about the decision by end of June 2025.

Editor:

• Michael Beer, Leibniz University Hanover,  beer@irz.uni-hannover.de  

Managing Editors:

• Eleni Chatzi, ETH Zurich,  chatzi@ibk.baug.ethz.ch
• Alba Sofi, University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria, alba.sofi@unirc.it alba.sofi@unirc.it

Associate Managing Editors:

• Matthias Faes, KU Leuven,  matthias.faes@tu-dortmund.de
• Zhen Hu, University of Michigan-Dearborn, zhennhu@umich.edu
• Ketson Dos Santos, University of Minnesota, dossantk@umn.edu
• Yi Zhang, Tsinghua University, zhang-yi@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
• Cao Wang, University of Wollongong,  wangc@uow.edu.au

Early Career Editorial Board Members:

• Shivang Shekhar, Indian Institute of Technology,  shivang@iitmandi.ac.in
• Mandi Yating Zhang, University of Maryland,  zhangyatingemail@gmail.com
• Masaru Kitahara, University of Tokyo,  kitahara@bridge.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
• Rudraprasad Bhattacharyya, Thornton Tomasetti Somayajulu,  RBhattacharyya@ThorntonTomasetti.com   
• L. N. Dhulipala, Idaho National Laboratory,  Som.Dhulipala@inl.gov  
• Vasileios C. Fragkoulis, Leibniz University Hannover,  fragkoulis@irz.uni-hannover.de
• Shweta U. Dabetwar, University of Massachusetts,  dabetwarshweta@gmail.com
• Lowell Chen Jiang, Seoul National University,   chenjiang@hust.edu.cn

Founding Editor (2014-2021):

• Bilal M. Ayyub, University of Maryland College Park

Editorial Board members:  Part A  &  Part B

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