Editorial Policies

Aims and Scope

The journal publishes new research articles, as well as scientific reviews on the following topics:

• Substantiation, research and development of new types of bearing and enclosing reinforced concrete structures.
• Substantiation, development and optimization of structural decisions for buildings and structures, considering their functionality, natural and climatic conditions, economic and structural safety using numerical simulation.
• Creation and development of effective methods of analysis and experimental studies of newly erected, restored and strengthened building structures considering the specifics of impacts on them, the properties of materials, the specifics of design solutions and other features.
• Development and improvement of methods and systems for quality control of building structures during service life.
• Methods for structural health monitoring, strengthening and restoration of buildings and structures.
• Optimal design of reinforced concrete structures.
• Study of structural safety and robustness of building frames under design and abnormal impacts.
• Development of methods for analysis of reinforced concrete structures under various force and environmental effects, forecast of RC structure's service life.
• Reduction of risks and ensuring the reliability and structural safety of buildings and structures in emergency situations of natural and man-made nature (fire, various dynamic impacts, and emergency shock) and abnormal impacts.
• Development of the theory of analysis of reinforced concrete structures.
• Seismic resistance of buildings and structures.
• Computer modeling in construction.

Sections

GENERAL ISSUES

STRUCTURES

CONCRETES

STRUCTURAL DESIGN

SAVING RESOURCES

THEORY OF CONCRETE AND REINFORCED CONCRETE

COMPUTER MODELLING IN CONSTRUCTION

OPTIMAL DESIGN

Peer Review Process

An bilateral anonymous ("blind") peer review method is mandatory for processing of all scientific manuscripts submitted to the editorial stuff of “Reinforced concrete structures” (“Zhelezobetonnyye konstruktsii”). This implies that neither the reviewer is aware of the authorship of the manuscript, nor the author maintains any contact with the reviewer.

1. Members of the editorial board and leading Russian and international experts in corresponding areas of life sciences, invited as independent readers, perform peer reviews. Editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief or science editor choose readers for peer review. We aim to limit the review process to 2-4 weeks, though in some cases the schedule may be adjusted at the reviewer’s request.
2. Reviewer has an option to abnegate the assessment should any conflict of interests arise that may affect perception or interpretation of the manuscript. Upon the scrutiny, the reviewer is expected to present the editorial board with one of the following recommendations:
   
   • - to accept the paper in its present state;
   • - to invited the author to revise their manuscript to address specific concerns before final decision is reached;
   • - that final decision be reached following further reviewing by another specialist;
   • - to reject the manuscript outright.
3. If the reviewer has recommended any refinements, the editorial staff would suggest the author either to implement the corrections, or to dispute them reasonably. Authors are kindly required to limit their revision to 2 months and resubmit the adapted manuscript within this period for final evaluation.
4. We politely request that the editor to be notified verbally or in writing should the author decide to refuse from publishing the manuscript. In case the author fails to do so within 3 months since receiving a copy of the initial review, the editorial board takes the manuscript off the register and notifies the author accordingly.
5. If author and reviewers meet insoluble contradictions regarding revision of the manuscript, the editor-in-chief resolves the conflict by his own authority.
6. The editorial board reaches final decision to reject a manuscript on the hearing according to reviewers’ recommendations, and duly notifies the authors of their decision via e-mail. The board does not accept previously rejected manuscripts for re-evaluation.
7. Upon the decision to accept the manuscript for publishing, the editorial staff notifies the authors of the scheduled date of publication.
8. Kindly note that positive review does not guarantee the acceptance, as final decision in all cases lies with the editorial board. By his authority, editor-in-chief rules final solution of every conflict.
9. Original reviews of submitted manuscripts remain deposited for 5 years.

Open Access Policy

This is an open access journal. All articles are made freely available to readers immediatly upon publication.
Our open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition - it means that articles have free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.
For more information please read BOAI statement.