Civil Structural & Environ Eng: Recent submissions
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Sustainability potential of risk-informed decisions in structural design
(2023)Structural design codes feature safety concepts that are highly generalized to make them simple and applicable to a large variety of structures at the same time. This leads to structures that are sufficiently safe but where ... -
Probabilistic considerations and use of WIM data for assessing structural safety effects of permitting 74 ton heavy trucks on Norwegian bridges
(2023)The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has been asked to provide scientific background on the effect of increasing the maximum allowed traffic load to 74 ton on the structural safety of existing road bridges. This is a ... -
Comparison of strategies for the optimal sampling of random functions
(2023)In engineering problems and applications are usually characterized by uncertainty. The accurate quantification of possible effects of those uncertainties is of vital importance. The most common approach to do so is ... -
Impact of building code changes on future hurricane risk of residential buildings in changing climate
(2023)Hurricanes are one of the biggest natural hazards to residential buildings under the worsening climate change. As the effect of climate change on hurricane risks has been suggested by many studies, the urge to change ... -
Probabilistic optimisation of the maintenance of steel components in French nuclear power facilities
(2023)Certain structural steel components located in the secondary part of PWR (Pressurized Water Reactors) nuclear power plants are subject to an atmospheric corrosion phenomenon in a confined environment affecting their bottom ... -
Rapid Resilience assessment of a Transport Networks for Medical Needs
(2023)A healthy transportation network should be resilient in many ways and resilience for medical emegencies or needs are one of the important factors in this regard. This paper demonstrates for such resilieince can be rapidly ... -
Assessing the vulnerability of a Dutch river dyke to rising water levels
(2023)Dykes provide protection from the risk of flooding to approximately 60% of the Netherlands, by area. Unfortunately, most of the countryﾒs major cities lie within this zone, placing a large proportion of the population at ... -
Sequential design of Gaussian process surrogates using pre-posterior analysis and Bayesian model averaging
(2023)To build a surrogate model from experimental data ﾖ from tests or computer simulations ﾖ numerous options may exist when choosing a mathematical form. This is true for Gaussian Processes (GP) models, which may or may not ... -
Probabilistic resilience model for management of road infrastructure systems subject to flood events
(2023)Road infrastructure systems play a critical role in economic development by facilitating access to markets, jobs, and social services. However, they are vulnerable to various natural hazards and threats, which have caused ... -
Economic Efficacy Assessment of Deteriorating Protection Structures Subjected to Natural Phenomena in Mountains
(2023)Natural phenomena in mountains (e.g., torrential floods, debris flows) pose threat to people and material assets (e.g., houses, roads). Depending on their intensity, they can result in direct damages (e.g., destruction) ... -
Approximate Bayesian Computation considering Summary Statistics for Parameter Identification in Computational Mechanics
(2023)Computational mechanics offers the possibility to construct numerical models that simulate the behavior of real-world engineering systems. These numerical models usually depend on a series of parameters such as material ... -
Probabilistic safety-checking with un-scaled records for the equivalent SDOF system
(2023)The intensity-based Demand and Capacity Factor Design (DCFD) is a probabilistic closed-form analytical safety-checking format, derived based on a set of simplifying assumptions, that lends itself quite well to visual ... -
A machine learning-based approach to evaluate the fire resistance of timber columns
(2023)Timber construction offers substantial advantages in terms of sustainability, ease of modular construction, and aesthetics. In recent years, structural members made from timber have been increasingly used in residential ... -
New opportunities for bridge management using independent datasets
(2023)Bridge managers have increasingly utilised databases to aid in the efficient allocation of resources. For the most part, these databases have been compiled from existing bridge management tools such as bridge inspection ... -
Empirical analysis of the forecasting accuracy of ST-ED-RMGC with bike-sharing data under atypical weather-related scenarios
(2023)The transport sector is one of the most greenhouse gas emitting sectors, and users waste a lot of time in transport due to congestion, with relevant socio-economic consequences. Understanding the spatio-temporal traffic ... -
Development of a multi-risk index for Italy: a tool for supporting informed decision making on disaster risk reduction
(2023)Effective disaster-risk management decision making relies on holistic multi-risk quantification approaches. Such approaches capture the effects of multiple hazards, facilitating the development and implementation of ... -
Comparison of Cascading Effects in Critical Infrastructure Networks based on Simulation
(2023)Natural hazards such as floodings affect critical infrastructures (CIs) with increasing frequency and intensity. The effects are hard to predict due to the change of the hazards over time (e.g., due to climate change), but ... -
Reliability level of the second generation of the Eurocodes -- status and potential
(2023)The EN Eurocodes are a collection of 10 European Standards, EN 1990 - EN 1999 , providing a common basis for the design of load bearing structures. The next generation of the Eurocodes, the second generation, will be ... -
Damage Detection Based on Wavelet Transform and Convolution Neural Networks
(2023)The performance of conventional damage detection systems depends mainly on the physical and geometrical damage characteristics and the choice of damage classifier. Some works directly use Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) ... -
Recent developments and ongoing challenges in the implementation of UAS assisted bridge inspections
(2023)In the past decade, the use of drones, or unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), to supplement engineering activities such as structural inspections has increased considerably due to the advances in the associated technology in ...
