CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS
An international journal dedicated to the investigation and innovative use of materials
in construction and repair
AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS
•      Description
•      Audience
•      Impact Factor
•      Abstracting and Indexing •      Editorial Board
•      Guide for Authors p.1
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ISSN: 0950-0618
DESCRIPTION
Construction and Building Materials provides an international forum for the dissemination of research and development in the field of construction and building materials and their application in new works and repair practice. The journal publishes a wide range of research and application papers which describe laboratory and numerical investigations or report on full scale projects.
Construction and Building Materials also publishes detailed case studies and review articles, as well as short communications and discussions.
The materials and technology covered include: cement, concrete reinforcement, bricks and mortars, additives, corrosion technology, ceramics, timber, steel, polymers, glass fibres, recycled materials and by-products, sealants, adhesives.
The scope of Construction and Building Materials includes, but is not restricted to, new works and repair and maintenance of the following: bridges, high-rise buildings, dams, civil engineering structures, silos, highway pavements, tunnels, water containment structures, sewers, roofing, housing, coastal defences.
At a time when the pressure is on all engineers, architects and contractors to optimise use of new materials and up-to-date technologies, Construction and Building Materials provides essential inform
ation that will help improve efficiency, productivity and competitiveness in world markets. It is therefore vital reading for all professionals and academics involved with research into, or specification of, building materials.
Author duties: Acceptance of a manuscript for publication in the journal carries with it an understanding that the author, when requested, will fulfil an obligation to contribute their expertise to the review of others' manuscripts. Authors who are unwilling to assist with the review of a colleague's paper may in extreme cases find that their manuscripts are no longer welcomed for publication in Construction and Building Materials.
AUDIENCE
Consulting engineers, architects, civil engineers, technical managers, project managers, structural engineers and researchers.
IMPACT FACTOR
2010: 1.366 © Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports 2011
ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING
Compendex
Engineering Index
Materials Science Citation Index
Research Alert
Science Citation Index
Scopus
EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor-in-Chief:
Michael C. Forde, University of Edinburgh, Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, School of Engineering, Edinburgh, UK, Email: m.forde@ed.ac.uk
Senior Editor:
Masayusa Ohtsu, Kumamoto University, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto, Japan, Email: ohtsu@gpo.kumamoto-u.ac.jp
Editors:
P. A. Muhammed Basheer, Queen's University of Belfast, School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Belfast, UK, Email: m.basheer@qub.ac.uk
Kent Harries, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Email: kharries@pitt.edu
Editorial Advisory Board:
J. M. Adam, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
G. Airey, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
I. Al-Qadi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
N.O. Attoh-Okine, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
submitting
L. C. Bank, City College of New York, New York City, NY, USA
L. Binda, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
A.J. Boyd, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
J.H. Bungey, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
O. Buyukozturk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA
K. Crews, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
A. Duran-Herrera, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
D.M. Frangopol, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA
O. Gunes, Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey
M. Hall, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
P.C. Hewlett, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK
K.C. Hover, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
C.K.Y. Leung, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, China
P.B. Lourenco, Universidade do Minho, Azurém, Guimarães, Portugal
A. Mirmiran, Florida International University, Miami FL, USA
J. Mirza, Research Institute of Hydro-Quebec, Varennes, Canada
A. S. Nowak, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
S. Rizkalla, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
N.G. Shrive, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
K. Sobolev, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
M. N. Soutsos, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
V. W. Y. Tam, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
J-G. Teng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
I. B. Topçu, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey
D. Van Gemert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
H.G. Wheat, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
F. Xiao, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
M.H. Zhang, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
GUIDE FOR AUTHORS
INTRODUCTION
Construction and Building Materials provides an international forum for the dissemination of research and development in the field of construction and building materials and their application in new works and repair practice.
Authors must supply the names, addresses and emails of 3 independent referees from outside their
own country.
All Authors are expected to help in the peer review process by reviewing at least 3 papers. We reserve the right to decline to consider papers from potential Authors who are too busy or unwilling to take part in the peer review process.
Types of paper
Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication: Original research papers, occasional reviews, short communications, calendar inserts and book reviews. Discussions: Any comment on or discussion of a published paper should be emailed directly to the Editor, NOT submitted via the electronic submission system. It must be received by the Editor within three months of the online publication of the paper under discussion.
Contact details for submission
The entire submission and review process for Construction and Building Materials is handled electronically, which shortens publication times. All papers should be submitted electronically through ees.elsevier/conbuildmat Prior to submitting your paper, please follow the instructions give
n below. Please note that you must have an e-mail address to use the online submission system. Authors submit their article online simply by registering, logging-in and submitting. Editors will then invite potential reviewers by e-mail.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Ethics in publishing
For information on Ethics in publishing and Ethical guidelines for journal publication see www.elsevier/publishingethics and www.elsevier/ethicalguidelines.
Conflict of interest
All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work. See also www.elsevier/conflictsofinterest.
Submission declaration
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere including electronically in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the copyright-holder.
Changes to authorship
This policy concerns the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts:
Before the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the Journal Manager from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should be added or removed, or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed. R
equests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded by the Journal Manager to the corresponding author, who
must follow the procedure as described above. Note that: (1) Journal Managers will inform the Journal Editors of any such requests and (2) publication of the accepted manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship has been agreed.
After the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published in an online issue will follow the same policies as noted above and result in a corrigendum.
Copyright
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (for more information on this and copyright see www.elsevier/copyright). Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this agreement.
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Retained author rights
As an author you (or your employer or institution) retain certain rights; for details you are referred to: www.elsevier/authorsrights.
Role of the funding source
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e stated. Please see www.elsevier/funding.
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Open access
This journal offers you the option of making your article freely available to all via the ScienceDirect platform. To prevent any conflict of interest, you can only make this choice after receiving notification that your article has been accepted for publication. The fee of $3,000 excludes taxes and other potential author fees such as color charges. In some cases, institutions and funding bodies have entered into agreement with Elsevier to meet these fees on behalf of their authors. Details of these agreements are available at www.elsevier/fundingbodies. Authors of accepted articles, who wish to take advantage of this option, should complete and submit the order form (available at www.elsevier/locate/openaccessform.pdf). Whatever access option you choose, you retain
many rights as an author, including the right to post a revised personal version of your article on your own website. More information can be found here: www.elsevier/authorsrights . Language and language services
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). Authors who require information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission please visit webshop.elsevier/languageservices or our customer support site at support.elsevier for more information.
Submission
Submission to this journal proceeds totally online and you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of your files. The system automatically converts source files to a single PDF file of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF files at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail removing the need for a paper trail.
Additional information
Manuscript length preferably no more than 20 double line spaced manuscript pages, including tables and illustrations. Acceptance of a manuscript for publication in the journal carries with it an understanding that the author, when requested, will fulfil an obligation to contribute their expertise to the review of others' manuscripts. Authors who are unwilling to assist with the review of a colleague's paper may in extreme cases find that their manuscripts are no longer welcomed for publication in Construction and Building Materials.
PREPARATION
Use of wordprocessing software
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also the Guide to Publishing with Elsevier: www.elsevier/guidepublication). Note that source files of figures, tables and text graphics will be required whether or not you embed your figures in the text. See also the section on Electronic artwork.
To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the 'spell-check' and 'grammar-check' functions of your wordprocessor.
LaTeX
If the LaTeX file is suitable, proofs will be produced without rekeying the text. The article should preferably be written using Elsevier's document class 'elsarticle', or alternatively any of the other recognized classes and formats supported in Elsevier's electronic submissions system, for further information see www.elsevier/wps/find/authorsview.authors/latex-ees-supported.
The Elsevier 'elsarticle' LaTeX style file package (including detailed instructions for LaTeX preparation) can be obtained from the Quickguide: www.elsevier/latex. It consists of the file: elsarticle.cls, complete user documentation for the class file, bibliographic style files in various styles, and template files for a quick start.
Article structure
Subdivision - numbered sections
Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to 'the text'. Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own separate line.
Introduction
State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.
Material and methods
Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described.
Theory/calculation
A Theory section should extend, not repeat, the background to the article already dealt with in the Int
roduction and lay the foundation for further work. In contrast, a Calculation section represents a practical development from a theoretical basis.
Results
Results should be clear and concise.
Discussion
This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.

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