Aims and Scope

Aim

The Asian Review of Civil Engineering (TARCE) aims to advance scholarly knowledge, technological innovation, and professional practice across the major disciplines of civil engineering and infrastructure development. The journal provides an international platform for rigorous theoretical, experimental, computational, methodological, and practice-oriented research. It publishes studies contributing to the planning, analysis, design, construction, operation, maintenance, resilience, and sustainability of civil engineering systems and the built environment. TARCE encourages research addressing contemporary challenges in infrastructure development, climate adaptation, sustainable construction, resource efficiency, and resilient development. The journal also welcomes emerging technologies, digital engineering, artificial intelligence, smart infrastructure, and data-driven methods with clear civil engineering applications. Interdisciplinary research is encouraged where it makes a substantive contribution to civil engineering, construction, infrastructure, or the built environment. TARCE seeks to disseminate methodologically sound, scientifically significant, and practically relevant research to an international academic and professional readership.

Scope of the Journal

TARCE publishes original research articles, review articles, and case studies in areas including:

  • Structural engineering, structural analysis, and structural design
  • Earthquake engineering, seismic analysis, and structural dynamics
  • Geotechnical engineering, soil mechanics, foundation engineering, rock mechanics, and tunnelling
  • Construction engineering, construction technology, and construction management
  • Building materials, concrete technology, construction composites, and sustainable construction materials
  • Transportation engineering, highways, pavements, traffic systems, railways, airports, ports, and multimodal infrastructure
  • Water resources engineering, hydrology, hydraulics, irrigation, drainage, and flood management
  • Environmental engineering, pollution control, water and wastewater treatment, sanitation, and urban water systems
  • Municipal engineering, urban infrastructure, surveying, geomatics, geodesy, remote sensing, and GIS
  • Coastal, harbour, offshore, marine, bridge, and transportation structures
  • Infrastructure planning, asset management, maintenance, rehabilitation, and life-cycle management
  • Construction planning, scheduling, cost engineering, project controls, safety, quality, risk, and productivity
  • Building information modelling, digital construction, and digital twins
  • Artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational modelling, simulation, and optimisation applied to civil engineering
  • Smart infrastructure, structural health monitoring, sensors, and condition assessment
  • Disaster-resistant infrastructure, climate adaptation, resilience, sustainable infrastructure, green buildings, life-cycle assessment, and circular construction
  • Urban engineering, smart cities, infrastructure systems engineering, and performance assessment
  • Emerging technologies with demonstrable applications in civil engineering and infrastructure

Interdisciplinary Research

TARCE welcomes interdisciplinary research where the work demonstrates a clear and substantive contribution to civil engineering, infrastructure, construction, or the built environment. Studies primarily focused on other disciplines without a meaningful civil engineering application are outside the principal scope of the journal.

Readership

The journal serves an international readership of researchers, academics, civil and structural engineers, construction professionals, consultants, planners, infrastructure specialists, educators, research scholars, industry professionals, and policy-oriented professionals.

Types of Articles

  • Original Research Articles
  • Review Articles
  • Case Studies

Originality and Relevance

Submitted manuscripts must present original scholarly work relevant to the stated aims and scope of TARCE and demonstrate scientific, engineering, methodological, or technological significance. Manuscripts should make a clear contribution to civil engineering knowledge or professional practice. Purely descriptive studies or interdisciplinary studies without a substantive civil engineering contribution may be considered outside the journal’s editorial scope.