Design is a goal-oriented planning activity for creating products, processes, and systems with desired functions through specifications. It is a decision-making exploration: the design outcome may vary greatly depending on the designer’s knowledge and philosophy. Integrated design is one type of design philosophy that takes an interdisciplinary and holistic approach. In civil engineering, structural design is such an activity for creating buildings and infrastructures. Recently, structural design in many countries has emphasized a performance-based philosophy that simultaneously considers a structure’s safety, durability, serviceability, and sustainability. Consequently, integrated design in civil engineering has become more popular, useful, and important. Material-oriented integrated design and construction of structures (MIDCS) combine materials engineering and structural engineering in the design stage: it fully utilizes the strengths of materials by selecting the most suitable structural forms and construction methodologies. This paper will explore real-world examples of MIDCS, including the realization of MIDCS in timber seismic-resistant structures, masonry arch structures, long-span steel bridges, prefabricated/on-site extruded light-weight steel structures, fiber-reinforced cementitious composites structures, and fiber-reinforced polymer bridge decks. Additionally, advanced material design methods such as bioinspired design and structure construction technology of additive manufacturing are briefly reviewed and discussed to demonstrate how MIDCS can combine materials and structures. A unified strength-durability design theory is also introduced, which is a human-centric, interdisciplinary, and holistic approach to the description and development of any civil infrastructure and includes all processes directly involved in the life cycle of the infrastructure. Finally, this paper lays out future research directions for further development in the field.

设计是一种以目标为导向的计划活动，用于通过规范创建具有所需功能的产品、流程和系统。这是一种决策探索：设计结果可能会因设计师的知识和理念而有很大差异。集成设计是一种采用跨学科和整体方法的设计理念。在土木工程中，结构设计是一种用于创建建筑物和基础设施的活动。最近，许多国家的结构设计都强调基于性能的理念，同时考虑结构的安全性、耐用性、适用性和可持续性。因此，土木工程中的集成设计变得更加流行、有用和重要。面向材料的结构一体化设计与施工（MIDCS）在设计阶段将材料工程与结构工程相结合：通过选择最合适的结构形式和施工方法，充分发挥材料的优势。本文将探讨 MIDCS 的实际示例，包括 MIDCS 在木材抗震结构、砖石拱结构、大跨度钢桥、预制/现场挤压轻钢结构、纤维增强水泥基复合材料中的实现结构和纤维增强聚合物桥面。此外，还简要回顾和讨论了增材制造的仿生设计和结构构建技术等先进材料设计方法，以展示 MIDCS 如何将材料和结构结合起来。还引入了统一的强度-耐久性设计理论，它是一种以人为本、跨学科和整体的方法来描述和开发任何民用基础设施，并包括直接涉及基础设施生命周期的所有过程。最后，本文为该领域的进一步发展提出了未来的研究方向。