Design for durability

Design for sustainability

Design for resilience

Innovations in sustainable materials

Life-cycle reliability and risk assessments

Life-cycle optimization

Long-term performance analysis

Performance based life-cycle engineering

Uncertainty modeling and analysis

Modelling of time-dependent behavior

BIM techniques enabling life-cycle engineering

Damage identification

Field testing

Standardization of testing methods

Inspection strategies

Inspection of system behavior

Structural health monitoring techniques

Selection of monitoring techniques

Life-cycle performance indicators

Aging of structures

Corrosion, fatigue and cumulative damage

Deterioration models

Earthquake and accidental loadings

Fire and high temperatures

Severe environmental effects

Structure-environment interaction

Overall performance and performance testing

Failure mechanism and failure probability

Maintenance and updating techniques

Construction and underground space development

Disaster prevention and mitigation

Modeling and analysis of large complex infrastructure

Optimization of system

Maintenance strategies

Rehabilitation techniques

Repair and strengthening methods

Inspection and evaluation

Serviceability based criteria for interventions

Sustainable repair measures

Performance based selection of repair strategies

Threshold levels for performance indicators

Target safety levels for upgrading

Life-cycle cost models

Life-cycle optimization methods

Whole life costing

Project management

Optimization in decision making

Human factors in life-cycle engineering

Economic risk and decision basis

Artificial intelligence methods

Evolutionary procedures

Heuristic techniques

Mathematical optimization

Soft-computing methods

Survival models and simulation