Journal Guide

This Journal is established with a view to cater to increased awareness for high quality research in the seamless integration of heterogeneous technologies to formulate bankable solutions to the emergent complex engineering problems.Assurance engineering could be thought of as relating to the provision of higher confidence in the reliable and secure implementation of a system’s critical characteristic features through the espousal of a holistic approach by using a wide variety of cross disciplinary tools and techniques. Successful realization of sustainable and dependable products, systems and services involves an extensive adoption of Reliability, Quality, Safety and Risk related procedures for achieving high assurancelevels of performance: also pivotal are the management issues related to risk and uncertainty that govern the practical constraints encountered in their deployment. It is our intention to provide a platform for the modeling and analysis of large engineering systems, among the other aforementioned allied goals of systems assurance engineering, leading to the enforcement of performance enhancement measures. Achieving a fine balance between theory and practice is the primary focus. The Journal only publishes high quality papers that have passed the rigorous peer review procedure of an archival scientific Journal. The aim is an increasing number of submissions, wide circulation and a high impact factor.

The Journal of Applied Security Research: Prevention and Response in Asset Protection, Terrorism and Violence (re-titled from the Journal of Security Education to reflect a more comprehensive focus) is a one-stop resource on security research, education, and training programs that will help scholars, educators, practitioners, and students meet the increasing need for security in the United States. The journal is the official journal of the Security & Crime Division of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and is affiliated with the Academy of Security Educators and Trainers and Protect New York -- a new academic organization representing faculty from a variety of disciplines and colleges and universities, including the State University of New York system. The journal presents the latest developments in theory, practice, research, and assessment with an emphasis on up-to-date methods, techniques, and technology. Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by two anonymous referees.Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

The journal will cover, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Acoustics
• Architectural design
• Building maintenance
• Building materials
• Building pathology
• Building performance
• Coatings and claddings
• Computer aided-design and simulation
• Construction engineering management
• Construction technology
• Energy efficiency
• Environmental design and assessment
• Façade and envelope engineering
• Facilities management
• Fire safety engineering
• Health and wellbeing
• HVAC systems
• Indoor environment
• Inspection and diagnosis
• Life cycle assessment
• Lighting
• Retrofit and refurbishment of existing buildings
• Service life prediction
• Strengthening and rehabilitation
• Structural analysis
• Structural assessment
• Structural design
• Structural monitoring and testing
• Sustainable buildings
• Thermo-hygrometric design
• Water systems and sanitation
• Whole life cost

Technical notes on projects, codes and standards are also welcomed.

The Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring (JCSHM) publishes articles to advance the understanding and the application of health monitoring methods for the condition assessment and management of the civil infrastructure systems.JCSHM serves as a focal point for international sharing of knowledge and experience in technologies impacting the discipline of Civionics and Civil Structural Health Monitoring, especially in terms of load capacity ratings and service life estimation.Original articles to further the state-of-the-art in diagnostics, and prognostics for civil infrastructure systems including highways, bridges, buildings, airports, seaports, railroads, water resources systems, oil and gas pipelines, and others are welcomed.There is an important role for papers that address the application (successful or from a lesson learned aspect) of principles. This is of course the key facet of engineering as opposed to basic science - engineers take ideas and develop them into applications and use in the field.It shall be noted that the quality of the journal is based on peer review. The Editors welcome to hear about the reader’s opinions and citations.

The Journal of Conflict & Security Law (JCSL) is a thrice yearly peer-reviewed journal aimed at academics, government officials, military lawyers, and lawyers working in the area, as well as individuals interested in the areas of arms control law, armed conflict law and collective security law, and the interfaces between them.

The Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention (JFAP) is written for and read by individuals involved in failure analysis, materials scientists, and mechanical, manufacturing, aeronautical, civil, chemical, corrosion, and design engineers. The publication is unique in that it contains current news and technical articles, as well as archival peer-reviewed papers and reviews. JFAP provides information gathering techniques, technical analysis, and emerging tools that will assist failure analysis professionals in determining the cause of failures and eliminating failures in the future. Articles demonstrate the importance of failure analysis to product/performance improvements and industrial problem solving. JFAP is intended to be of interest to both the experienced and less experienced failure analysis practitioner with a focus on shared interest across the industries. Bi-monthly periodical for the failure analyst. Provides practical information for determining the cause of failures and eliminating future failures. Highlights information-gathering techniques, technical analysis and emerging tools to assist the future analyst. Peer-reviewed articles demonstrate the important of failure analysis, product/performance improvement and industrial problem solving. Written for the experienced and less experienced failure analysis practitioner.

The Journal of Fire Protection Engineering is a rigorously peer-reviewed international journal that is unique in fire engineering by virtue of articles being of immediate use to its readership.To accomplish this, the Journal provides fire protection engineers, fire safety engineers and other engineering professionals with clear descriptions both of state-of-the-art engineering methods and new data obtained from modern measurement or survey techniques.Examples and detailed case studies demonstrate how these advanced methods and valuable data can be applied to the fire safety design and evaluation of buildings and other structures (e.g., bridges, tunnels, etc.) and transportation vehicles (e.g. rail, ship and aircraft).Each issue contains in-depth articles by both researchers and practitioners on advances in the following key engineering areas:·Fire behavior modeling (calculating the behavior of flames and smoke in enclosed spaces and in the open)·Fire impact modeling (calculating the impact of flames and smoke both on occupants and on the built environment, including structural effects)·Fire detection modeling (calculating the response and reliability of detection devices)·Fire protection modeling (evaluating the effectiveness of flame/smoke control with various engineering strategies, including techniques to predict how area flooding, sprinkler activation, smoke venting and compartmentation control a fire)·Reliability of fixed fire protection, including corrosion control and maintenance strategies·Approximate or simplified engineering calculations of fire behavior, fire impact, fire detection and fire protection.·Occupant behavior modeling (predicting the behavior of occupants during a fire, including evacuation response time and occupant response to visual and audio alarms and signage).·Characterization of fire and occupant scenarios for engineering analysis·Engineering risk analysis and risk evaluation of fire scenarios in terms of life safety, property cost, business interruption and environmental damage·Case studies of performance-based fire safety design and assessment·Procedures for obtaining engineering data from test methods (e.g., fire behavior data from tests on combustible materials; fire impact data from tests on structural elements; fire protection data from tests of fire interactions with control measures, occupant behavior data from occupant surveys or evacuation drills)·Interpretation of data from realistic or full-scale fire tests or post-fire surveys·Literature surveys and book reviews covering the preceding topicsInformation provided in articles generally is based on documented research or design activity, and when appropriate, well illustrated by photographs, diagrams and charts. New developments from around the world are published in a form that allows for immediate application to engineering problem solving.

The Journal of Fire Sciences is a leading, peer-reviewed international journal for the reporting of new and significant applied research within the fire safety science community. Its overall content is generally aimed toward the prevention and mitigation of the adverse effects of fires involving combustible materials. Contributors and subscribers alike represent countries from around the world.Published bimonthly, the Journal of Fire Sciences addresses essentially all scientific aspects and disciplines involved with fires whose consequences are considered detrimental to life and property.Topics, generally involving experimental or theoretical studies of fire initiation and growth, fire containment, fire threat to people and the environment and fire safety engineering, frequently include the following:· Measurement of fire properties of materials and products, including ignitability, heat release, smoke and combustion product generation.

Aims and Scope Journal of Flood Risk Managementprovides an international platform for knowledge sharing in all areas related to flood risk. Its explicit aim is to disseminate ideas across the range of disciplines where flood related research is carried out and it provides content ranging from leading edge academic papers to applied content with the practitioner in mind. Readers and authors come from a wide background and include hydrologists. meteorologists. geographers. geomorphologists. conservationists. civil engineers. social scientists. policy makers. insurers and practitioners. They share an interest in managing the complex interactions between the many skills and disciplines that underpin the management of flood risk across the world.

Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to new measurement results and novel methods, techniques, and procedures for evaluating and characterizing food products and materials important to process innovation, product development, quality control, and safety assurance.The journal encompasses all topics related to food property measurement and characterization. Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Measured food properties (physical, thermal, mechanical, rheological, chemical, transport, biological, textural, sensory etc.) and characteristic patterns resulting from processing and other treatmentsPhysical, chemical, biochemical, biological, microbiological, and engineering principles, methods and mechanisms for food property measurement and characterizationEffective use, evaluation or development of sensing, imaging, and detection modalities for food applicationsNon-destructive and non-invasive evaluations of food propertiesIntroduction of emerging measurement, sensing and characterization techniques to the fieldState-of-the-art reviews on measurement techniques and methodsNovel use or development of statistical, mathematical and computer methods for food characterizationInstrumentation development and evaluationDevelopment and implementation of systems and procedures for food quality, safety and security assurance

This is the only fully peer-reviewed scientific journal explicitly devoted to issues of food quality. With food quality being of paramount concern to consumers, quality control personnel within food-producing companies need up-to-date and high-quality information to keep abreast of key issues in the area. This important, international journal provides such cutting-edge information, much of it of potential commercial importance.