Civil Structural & Environ Eng: Recent submissions
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Design of Bamboo Reinforced Concrete Beams Considering Variability in Tensile Strength of Bamboo
(2023)In recent years, the price of steel has soared, making steel reinforcement in concrete structures unaffordable for households in low-income countries. Seismic activities in low-income households, particularly those in ... -
Designing Equitable and Dynamic Rapid Earthquake Loss Assessment Systems
(2023)After the occurrence of destructive seismic events, there is an urgent need for reliable and rapid information regarding the expected impact in terms of damage, economic losses, fatalities, and injuries. Systems for the ... -
A Proposed Fuzzy-based Optimisation Model for Evaluating Construction Projects' Risk Response Strategies
(2023)The aim of this paper is to develop a fuzzy-based optimisation model for selecting the most appropriate construction risk response strategies by surveying construction experts in Iraq. A two-step research methodology was ... -
Probability Based Pavement Asset Management
(2023)Deterministic Pavement Deterioration models are commonly used due to their relative simplicity, ease of use, and familiarity. The modelling techniques include straight-line extrapolation, S-shaped curves, polynomial ... -
Bayesian Inference and Maximum Likelihood Estimation for fitting Distribution Functions of Road Traffic Load Effects
(2023)More and more bridges reach the end of their design life. Traffic loads have changed substantially over the last few decades since the design of these bridges. To prevent unnecessary costs and material use in redesign or ... -
Lifetime seismic risk assessment of coastal highway bridges under corrosion, scour and liquefaction effects
(2023)Coastal highway bridges, particularly those with reinforced concrete members, are susceptible to chloride-induced corrosion in their lifetime due to the aggressive coastal environment. Such an adverse environment has also ... -
A Bayesian Estimation Approach to the Post-Earthquake Recovery Trajectories of Electric Power Systems in Japan
(2023)Post-disaster recovery modelling of engineering systems has become an important facet of disaster risk management. The post-disaster recovery trajectory of a civil infrastructure system can be quantified using (a) their ... -
A simplified framework for reliability assessment of prestressed concrete bridge girders under travelling loads in dynamic regime
(2023)Assessing the reliability of prestressed bridge girders is paramount to keeping transportation infrastructure functional. Classical structural reliability assessment requires computing the demand and capacity of the ... -
A geo-statistical framework to reduce uncertainty in predictions of VS30 and other geotechnical variables
(2023)Geo-statistical modelling challenges arise when regional models in data-scarce regions are required. This is relevant when evaluating and dealing with geotechnical uncertainty in earthquake engineering applications. From ... -
Advancements and challenges in direct loss-based seismic design
(2023)Provisions in seismic design codes generally focus on collapse prevention or life safety for major, rare earthquakes while damage prevention for minor, frequent ones. The evolution of theoretical knowledge, modelling ... -
Next Generation Community-Level Resilience Modeling: The Interdependent Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment (IN-CORE)
(2023)In 2015, the U.S National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funded the Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning (CoE), a 14 university-based consortium of almost 100 people, including ... -
Implications of masonry infillﾖrelated uncertainty on the optimal seismic retrofitting of existing buildings
(2023)Many research efforts have focused on developing multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) processes for selecting the optimal seismic retrofit alternative when several important decision variables (DVs) need to be considered. ... -
The effect of geotechnical uncertainty on the preliminary design of large diameter monopiles
(2023)The offshore wind industry has evolved over the past decade with significant technological advances. These have been driven by the need for offshore wind energy to provide cost-competitive renewable energy. The economics ... -
Time-Varying Statistics of Oscillators Endowed with Fractional Derivative Elements
(2023)An approximate technique is presented for determining the statistics of the response envelope of lightly-damped nonlinear oscillators endowed with fractional derivative elements. Specifically, via the stochastic averaging ... -
Alternative Risk Metrics to Evaluate Tradeoffs between Efficiency and Equity of Risk Reduction
(2023)A common criticism of traditional benefit-cost analysis (BCA) is that benefit-cost ratios (BCRs) are reductive, in the sense that they aggregate all benefits and costs into a scalar value; decision rules that aim to maximize ... -
Effect of Bridge Data Heterogeneity on Neural Network Survival Predictive Performance
(2023)Accurate deterioration models are required for data-based bridge management. These models allow converting raw data into actionable insights to guide maintenance decisions. Survival modeling is a technique of modeling ... -
Structural Health Monitoring and Uncertainty Quantification in Large Steel Frame Structures
(2023)Large structural systems, under extreme natural hazard loadings, exhibit strongly nonlinear behavior that challenges commonly used diagnosis and modeling techniques. In such situations, the initial model may be quite ... -
Hierarchical Bayesian site clustering for a geotechnical database
(2023)This paper presents a new clustering method for sites in a geotechnical database. This clustering method is based on the hierarchical Bayesian site similarity measure (HBSSM) recently proposed by the authors. Utilizing the ... -
Case Study in the Application of Probabilistic Framework for Pipeline Failure Estimation due to Landslides
(2023)Landslides pose a significant threat to the loss of containment and failure of buried oil and gas pipelines. As the transmission pipelines traverse diverse terrain, identification of the susceptible regions for landslides ... -
Probabilistic modeling of integrated school-road systems for multi-hazard resilience
(2023)Performance assessment of education and associated infrastructure is an integral part of disaster risk reduction of communities from natural hazards such as earthquakes and floods. Depending on the extent of structural or ...
