Structures
Volume 12 • Issue 12
- ISSN: 2352-0124
- 5 Year impact factor: 3.9
- Impact factor: 3.9
Research Journal of The Institution of Structural Engineers .AimsStructures aims to publish internationally-leading research across the full breadth of structural engineering.… Read more
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Aims
Structures aims to publish internationally-leading research across the full breadth of structural engineering. Papers for Structures are particularly welcome in which high-quality research will benefit from wide readership of academics and practitioners such that not only high citation rates but also tangible industrial-related pathways to impact are achieved.
Scope
Structures seeks papers in the following areas relating to the built environment: structural engineering, structural materials, structural mechanics, behaviour and design of structures, new construction methods, structural innovation and optimisation, response of structures to extreme events, sustainability, performance-based design and other related areas.
The journal’s primary focus is structural engineering and related disciplines. Papers on subject matter regarded as civil engineering infrastructure, such as pipelines, roads and railways, tunnelling or dams will not be considered. Nor will papers applying structural analysis techniques to objects unrelated to the built environment (such as aircraft design, naval architecture or medical implants).
What we encourage and what to avoid?
The Editors of Structures would like to encourage the submission of papers that make a significant contribution to structural engineering knowledge, developing new techniques, presenting new applications of existing methods, or offering some other form of new insight.
The following types of paper will not be considered:
Papers where an analytical method is developed but not validated, or where no new insight is offered into the behaviour being studied. (NB Validation need not necessarily be by means of a laboratory experiment.)
Papers where an existing numerical method is applied to a slightly different type of the same problem, but no real new insight into the science is presented.
Papers where standard methods, such as finite element analysis or AI, are used to match some experimental data, but no real new insight into the science is presented.
Paper with a very narrow focus where research has been ‘salami sliced’ to allow multiple submissions. Instead, authors are encouraged to present a broader analysis of the subject being studied.
Papers purely presenting experimental data should ensure that the findings are new, well reported, and based on well-conducted experiments.
- ISSN: 2352-0124
- Volume 12
- Issue 12
- 5 Year impact factor: 3.9
- Impact factor: 3.9