ICASP14: Recent submissions
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Determination of Dynamic Progressive Collapse Resistances for Deteriorating Multi-story RC Frames Subjected to Column Removal Scenarios via the Energy-based Method
(2023)The alternate path method is widely employed to perform progressive collapse analyses of reinforced concrete (RC) structures subjected to sudden column removal scenarios. To avoid cumbersome direct dynamic analyses, the ... -
Development and assessment of pro-poor financial soft policies for expanding earthquake-prone urban communities
(2023)Recent major earthquake disasters have highlighted the effectiveness of regional financial soft policies (e.g., earthquake insurance) in transferring seismic risk away from those directly impacted and complementing 'hard' ... -
Physical modeling of turbulence wind field for wind turbines
(2023)Wind load is one of the most important dynamic excitations of wind turbine systems, reasonable description and simulation of turbulence wind field lays a significant foundation for the elaborative dynamic response analysis ... -
Physically-driven GE-GDEE and its application to stochastic seismic response and dynamic reliability analyses of practical engineering structures
(2023)Stochastic seismic response and dynamic reliability analyses of large-scale high-rise building structures under earthquake actions is one of the most challenging problems in engineering field. Both the randomness from ... -
Evaluation of test loads by means of Bayes' theorem.
(2023)For existing structures, load tests are often carried out to demonstrate the load-bearing capacity. Reasons for this can be found in a number of unknowns regarding the design loads, the materials used and their current ... -
Polynomial Chaos Surrogate Construction for Stochastic Models with Parametric Uncertainty
(2023)Mesoscopic modeling of surface chemistry bridges atomistic and continuum modeling of surface kinetics. Studying these models, typically simulated via kinetic Monte-Carlo (KMC) methods, is crucial for understanding events ... -
Stochastic approximation of fatigue damage for in-service monitoring of structures
(2023)Fatigue is a phenomenon of local degradation resulting from the repetition of low amplitude loads such as wind or waves. It plays a predominant role in the lifetime of aircraft, ships, and o?shore platforms. However, due ... -
Multi-Disciplinary Resilience Modeling for Developing Mitigation Policies in Seismic-prone Communities: Application to Salt Lake City, Utah
(2023)This paper presents a multi-disciplinary resilience modeling methodology to assess the vulnerability of the built environment and economic systems. This methodology can assist decision-makers with developing effective ... -
Climate Change Impact on Urban Resilience under Typhoon Disasters Considering Interdependent Infrastructure Systems
(2023)The functionality of a resilient infrastructure system would be less impacted and quicker recovery under disasters. This study aims to investigate the resilience of a city in Taiwan under typhoon disasters and the potential ... -
Practical Method for Estimating Seismic Risks of a Wooden House at an Arbitrary Point
(2023)The aim of this paper is to report the results of assessment of seismic risks of a wooden house using natural period-dependent spectrum intensity (SIIg) and probabilistic damage index function. SIIg is defined as the ... -
Short-term monitoring of an in-service bridge to determine boundary conditions
(2023)In Structure Health Monitoring (SHM), it is commonplace to model a structure to predict how it will behave. However, creating realistic models can be a changing endeavour due to the information required about the structure. ... -
Bridge abnormality detection utilizing acceleration of a moving vehicle
(2023)Drive-by bridge health monitoring (BHM) method inspecting bridge health condition utilizing measured data on the test vehicle has been investigated. While its great advantage is economy, the challenge of the drive-by BHM ... -
Applicability of Point Load Approximation to Traffic Load Estimation
(2023)There is a growing demand to efficiently and accurately determine the axle weights of vehicles passing over bridges for the purpose of evaluating bridge health and for use in traffic control. The existing method for ... -
Risk-Based Optimization of Design Load on Membrane Structures with Predetermined Service Life
(2023)In recent years, the social needs of buildings with limited service-lives have been increasing for the purpose of efficient use of land leasehold, experimental verification of new construction methods, etc. However, in the ... -
Multi-objective evaluation of target reliabilities for structural fire design
(2023)Target reliabilities for structural design are mostly informed by risk-based optimization. Such optimization is often computationally challenging, and especially in structural fire engineering involves numerous design ... -
Distribution-free stochastic model updating with copulas and staircase density functions
(2023)In stochastic model updating, a probabilistic model is assumed for the model parameters and its hyperparameters (e.g., means and variances) are calibrated to minimize the stochastic discrepancy between model outputs and ... -
A Real Time Stochastic Scour Detection For Railway BridgesRIDGES
(2023)This study aims to propose a real-time stochastic scour detection (SSA) of railway bridges by means of ambient vibration monitoring. A remote ambient vibration monitoring system is deployed in a railway bridge to measure ... -
The method for structural reliability analysis considering the first three moments as interval variables
(2023)In the traditional structural reliability method, the first three statistical moments of random variable are used to describe its uncertainty. But in practical engineering, due to the lack of statistical data, it is difficult ... -
Improving the Simulation Accuracy of the Substructure Approach for Soil-Structure-Interaction Analysis Using a Refined Impedance Function
(2023)The objective of this study is exploring the limitations of the substructure approach for time-domain soil-structure-interaction (SSI) analysis. The key assumption in the substructure approach is that the soil-structure ... -
Static seismic reliability analysis of SSTF structures
(2023)In order to evaluate the seismic performance of the steel staggered truss framing (SSTF) structural system, the seismic reliability analysis of the structure is carried out in this paper. The limit state function of SSTF ...
