期刊名称：MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Materials and Structures, the flagship publication of the International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM), provides a unique international and interdisciplinary forum for new research findings on the performance of construction materials. A leader in cutting-edge research, the journal is dedicated to the publication of high quality papers examining the fundamental properties of building materials, their characterization and processing techniques, modeling, standardization of test methods, and the application of research results in building and civil engineering. Materials and Structures also publishes comprehensive reports prepared by the RILEM's technical committees.
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Instructions to Authors
Manuscript Submission
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Permissions
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Online Submission
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Author tools to prepare your article
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Word template
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LaTeX macro package
The LaTex2e macro package supports various journal layouts. For information about which layout option to use, please refer to the section "Text" on the right.
Title page
Title Page
The title page should include:
- The name(s) of the author(s)
- A concise and informative title
- The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)
- The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author
Abstract
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- Purpose (stating the main purposes and research question)
- Methods
- Results
- Conclusions
Keywords
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Scientific style
Please always use internationally accepted signs and symbols for units, SI units.
Text
Text Formatting
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The submission should include the original source (including all style files and figures) and a PDF version of the compiled output.
Word files are also accepted. In this case, please use Springer’s Word template for preparing your manuscript.
Headings
Please use the decimal system of headings with no more than three levels.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.
Footnotes
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Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols.
Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.
Acknowledgments
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Scientific style
Generic names of drugs and pesticides are preferred; if trade names are used, the generic name should be given at first mention.
Scientific style
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- Italic for single letters that denote mathematical constants, variables, and unknown quantities
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- Bold for vectors, tensors, and matrices.
References
Citation
Cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses. Some examples:
- Negotiation research spans many disciplines (Thompson 1990).
- This result was later contradicted by Becker and Seligman (1996).
- This effect has been widely studied (Abbott 1991; Barakat et al. 1995; Kelso and Smith 1998; Medvec et al. 1993).
Reference list
The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list.
Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each work.
- Journal article
Gamelin FX, Baquet G, Berthoin S, Thevenet D, Nourry C, Nottin S, Bosquet L (2009) Effect of high intensity intermittent training on heart rate variability in prepubescent children. Eur J Appl Physiol 105:731-738. doi: 10.1007/s00421-008-0955-8
Ideally, the names of all authors should be provided, but the usage of “et al” in long author lists will also be accepted:
Smith J, Jones M Jr, Houghton L et al (1999) Future of health insurance. N Engl J Med 965:325–329
- Article by DOI
Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J Mol Med. doi:10.1007/s001090000086
- Book
South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London
- Book chapter
Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York, pp 230-257
- Online document
Cartwright J (2007) Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb. http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1. Accessed 26 June 2007
- Dissertation
Trent JW (1975) Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of California
Always use the standard abbreviation of a journal’s name according to the ISSN List of Title Word Abbreviations, see
.
For authors using EndNote, Springer provides an output style that supports the formatting of in-text citations and reference list.
Tables
- All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
- Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
- For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
- Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.
- Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.
Artwork
For the best quality final product, it is highly recommended that you submit all of your artwork – photographs, line drawings, etc. – in an electronic format. Your art will then be produced to the highest standards with the greatest accuracy to detail. The published work will directly reflect the quality of the artwork provided.
Electronic Figure Submission
- Supply all figures electronically.
- Indicate what graphics program was used to create the artwork.
- For vector graphics, the preferred format is EPS; for halftones, please use TIFF format. MS Office files are also acceptable.
- Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.
- Name your figure files with "Fig" and the figure number, e.g., Fig1.eps.
Line Art
- Definition: Black and white graphic with no shading.
- Do not use faint lines and/or lettering and check that all lines and lettering within the figures are legible at final size.
- All lines should be at least 0.1 mm (0.3 pt) wide.
- Scanned line drawings and line drawings in bitmap format should have a minimum resolution of 1200 dpi.
- Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.
Halftone Art
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- If any magnification is used in the photographs, indicate this by using scale bars within the figures themselves.
- Halftones should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
Combination Art
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- Combination artwork should have a minimum resolution of 600 dpi.
Color Art
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- If black and white will be shown in the print version, make sure that the main information will still be visible. Many colors are not distinguishable from one another when converted to black and white. A simple way to check this is to make a xerographic copy to see if the necessary distinctions between the different colors are still apparent.
- If the figures will be printed in black and white, do not refer to color in the captions.
- Color illustrations should be submitted as RGB (8 bits per channel).
Figure Lettering
- To add lettering, it is best to use Helvetica or Arial (sans serif fonts).
- Keep lettering consistently sized throughout your final-sized artwork, usually about 2–3 mm (8–12 pt).
- Variance of type size within an illustration should be minimal, e.g., do not use 8-pt type on an axis and 20-pt type for the axis label.
- Avoid effects such as shading, outline letters, etc.
- Do not include titles or captions within your illustrations.
Figure Numbering
- All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
- Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
- Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.).
- If an appendix appears in your article and it contains one or more figures, continue the consecutive numbering of the main text. Do not number the appendix figures, "A1, A2, A3, etc." Figures in online appendices (Electronic Supplementary Material) should, however, be numbered separately.
Figure Captions
- Each figure should have a concise caption describing accurately what the figure depicts. Include the captions in the text file of the manuscript, not in the figure file.
- Figure captions begin with the term Fig. in bold type, followed by the figure number, also in bold type.
- No punctuation is to be included after the number, nor is any punctuation to be placed at the end of the caption.
- Identify all elements found in the figure in the figure caption; and use boxes, circles, etc., as coordinate points in graphs.
- Identify previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference citation at the end of the figure caption.
Figure Placement and Size
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Permissions
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Accessibility
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- All figures have descriptive captions (blind users could then use a text-to-speech software or a text-to-Braille hardware)
- Patterns are used instead of or in addition to colors for conveying information (color-blind users would then be able to distinguish the visual elements)
- Any figure lettering has a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1
Electronic Supplementary Material
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Submission
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- Please include in each file the following information: article title, journal name, author names; affiliation and e-mail address of the corresponding author.
- To accommodate user downloads, please keep in mind that larger-sized files may require very long download times and that some users may experience other problems during downloading.
Audio, Video, and Animations
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Text and Presentations
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- A collection of figures may also be combined in a PDF file.
Spreadsheets
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Specialized Formats
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Collecting Multiple Files
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Numbering
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- Refer to the supplementary files as “Online Resource”, e.g., "... as shown in the animation (Online Resource 3)", “... additional data are given in Online Resource 4”.
- Name the files consecutively, e.g. “ESM_3.mpg”, “ESM_4.pdf”.
Captions
- For each supplementary material, please supply a concise caption describing the content of the file.
Processing of supplementary files
- Electronic supplementary material will be published as received from the author without any conversion, editing, or reformatting.
Accessibility
In order to give people of all abilities and disabilities access to the content of your supplementary files, please make sure that
- The manuscript contains a descriptive caption for each supplementary material
- Video files do not contain anything that flashes more than three times per second (so that users prone to seizures caused by such effects are not put at risk)
After acceptance
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Once the Author Query Application has been completed, your article will be processed and you will receive the proofs.
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Offprints
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Color illustrations
Online publication of color illustrations is free of charge. For color in the print version, authors will be expected to make a contribution towards the extra costs.
Proof reading
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After online publication, further changes can only be made in the form of an Erratum, which will be hyperlinked to the article.
Online First
The article will be published online after receipt of the corrected proofs. This is the official first publication citable with the DOI. After release of the printed version, the paper can also be cited by issue and page numbers.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Jacques MARCHAND
Université Laval
Département de Genie Civil
Université Laval
G1K 7P4 Sainte Foy Québec
CANADA
Tel: +14186563797 Fax: +14186563355
E-mail: jmarchan@gci.ulaval.ca
Associate Editors:
Dr. Véronique Baroghel-Bouny
LCPC
58 Bd Lefebvre
75732 Paris
FRANCE
tel: + 33 1 40 43 51 32 fax: + 33 1 40 43 54 98
e-mail: baroghel@lcpc.fr
Prof. Ole Mejlhede JENSEN
Technical University of Denmark
Dep. of Civil Engineering
Brovej - Building 118
DK-2800 Lyngby
DENMARK
Tel: +4545251863 Fax: +4545883282
E-mail: omj@byg.dtu.dk
Prof. Konstantin Kovler
NBRI
Technion
32000 Haifa
ISRAEL
Tel: + 97248292971 Fax: 972-4-8324534
E-mail: cvrkost@techunix.technion.ac.il
Prof. Christopher LEUNG
HKUST
Dept. of Civil & Structural Engineering
Clear Water Bay
Hong Kong
HONG KONG, CFIINA
Tel: +852 2358 8183 Fax: +852 2358 1534
E-mail: ckleung@ust.hk
Sidney MINDESS
University of British Columbia
Department of Civil Engineering
2324 Main Mall
V6T 1Z4 Vancouver BC
CANADA
Tel: +1 604 822 4471 Fax: +1 604 822 6901
E-mail: smindess@civil.ubc.ca
Manfred N. PARTL
EMPA
Ueberlandstrasse 129
CH-8600 Dübendorf
SWITZERLAND
Tel: +41 1 8234113 Fax: +41 1 821 6244
E-mail: manfred.partl@empa.ch
Dr Maria Rosa VALLUZZI
University of Padova
Dip. di Costruzioni E Trasporti ( DCT)
Via Marzolo 9
35131 Padova
ITALY
e-mail: valluzzi@dic.unipd.it
Prof. Jason WEISS
Purdue University
School of Civil Engineering
550 Stadium Mall Drive
47907-1284 West Lafayette IN
UNITED STATES
Tel: +1 7654942215 Fax: +1 765 496 1364
E-mail: wjweiss@ecn.purdue.edu
Editorial Advisory Committee:
MARK G. ALEXANDER, South Africa: Performance of cement-based materials in aggressive aqueous environments (211-PAE)
CARMEN ANDRADE, Spain: Model assisted integral service life prediction of steel reinforced concrete structures with respect to corrosion induced damage (213-MAI)
HANS D. BEUSHAUSEN, South Africa: Performance-based specifications and control of concrete durability (PSC)
PETER H. BILLBERG, Sweden: Form pressure generated by fresh concrete (FPC)
LUIGIA BINDA, Italy: Strategies for the assessment of historic masonry structures with NDT (216-SAM)
BJÖRN BIRGISSON, Sweden: Nanotechnology-based bituminous materials (NBM)
WOLFGANG BRAMESHUBER, Germany: Test methods and design of textile reinforced concrete (TDT)
DENYS BREYSSE, France: Interpretation of NDT results and assessment of RC structures (207-INR)
CASPAR J.W.P. GROOT, Netherlands: Repair mortars for historic masonry (203-RHM)
OLE MEJLHEDE JENSEN, Denmark: Educational Activities Committee (EAC)
BJÖRN F. JOHANNESSON, Denmark: Multi-component transport and chemical equilibrium in cement based materials (MCT)
BOHUMIL KASAL, United States: In-situ assessment of structural timber (215-AST)
KAMAL KHAYAT, Canada: Mechanical properties of self compacting concrete (MPS)
CHRISTOPHER LEUNG, Hong Kong: Optical fiber sensors for civil engineering applications (OFS)
VALÉRIE L'HOSTIS, France: Reinforced concrete in the context of nuclear waste management (226-CNM)
VICTOR C. LI, United States: High performance fibre reinforced cementitious composites (208-HFC)
VIKTOR MECHTCHERINE, Germany: Application of super absorbent polymers in concrete construction (225-SAP)
ANDRÉ A. A. MOLENAAR, Netherlands: Cracking in asphalt pavements (210-CAP)
PHILIP NIXON, United Kingdom: Alkali aggregate reactions in concrete structures: performance testing and appraisal (219-ACS)
MASAYASU OHTSU, Japan: Acoustic emission and related NDE techniques for crack detection and damage evaluation in concrete (212-ACD)
LISBETH OTTOSEN, Denmark: Electrokinetic processes in civil and environmental engineering (EPE)
MANFRED N. PARTL, Switzerland: Advanced testing and characterization of bituminous materials (206-ATB)
CARLO PELLEGRINO, Italy: Design procedures for the use of composites in strengthening of reinforced concrete structures (DUC)
HANS W. REINHARDT, Germany: Sonic methods for quality control of fresh cementitious materials (218-SFC)
NICOLAS ROUSSEL, France: Simulation of fresh concrete flow (222-SCF)
ERIK SCHLANGEN, The Netherlands: Self-healing phenomena in cement-based materials (221-SHC)
ULRICH SCHNEIDER, Austria: Physical properties and behaviour of High-Performance Concrete at high temperature (227-HPB)
LUPING TANG, Sweden: Corrosion initiating chloride threshold concentrations in Concrete (CTC)
MARIA ROSA VALLUZZI, Italy: Masonry strengthening with composite materials (223-MSC)
JAN S. J. VAN DEVENTER, Australia: Alkali Activated Materials (224-AAM)
ENRIC VÁZQUEZ, Spain: Progress of recycling in the built environment (217-PRE)
ÓLAFUR WALLEVIK, Iceland: Rheology of cement based materials such as fresh concrete (209-RFC)
JASON WEISS, United States: Concrete cracking and its relation to durability: integrating material properties with structural performance (214-CCD)
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