Engineering Asset Management 2010 represents state-of-the art trends and developments in the emerging field of engineering asset management as presented at the Fifth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM). The proceedings of the WCEAM 2010 is an excellent reference for practitioners, researchers and students in the multidisciplinary field of asset management, covering topics such as: Asset condition monitoring and intelligent maintenanceAsset data warehousing, data mining and fusionAsset performance and level-of-service modelsDesign and life-cycle integrity of physical assetsEducation and training in asset managementEngineering standards in asset managementFault diagnosis and prognosticsFinancial analysis methods for physical assetsHuman dimensions in integrated asset managementInformation quality managementInformation systems and knowledge managementIntelligent sensors and devicesMaintenance strategies in asset managementOptimisation decisions in asset managementRisk management in asset managementStrategic asset managementSustainability in asset management

Joseph Mathew is the WCEAM 2010's Congress Chair and also WCEAM's General Chair. He is Chief Executive Officer of the CRC for Infrastructure and Engineering Asset Management, Australia. Lin Ma is Programme Leader of the Capability Optimisation Programme in the CRC for Infrastructure and Engineering Asset Management. Andy Tan is Professor in the School of Engineering Systems, Queensland University of Technology. Margot Weijnen is Professor for Process and Energy Networks at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology. She is the Founding and Scientific Director of the international research centre for Next Generation Infrastructures. Jay Lee is Ohio Eminent Scholar and L.W. Scott Alter Chair Professor in Advanced Manufacturing at the University of Cincinnati and Co-Director Intelligent Maintenance Systems Center, USA.