Civil Structural & Environ Eng: Recent submissions
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A Framework of Data-driven Seismic Performance Assessment of Structures using Earthquake Ground Motion Time Histories Generated by Machine Learning Techniques
(2023)Observed ground motion time history records have been utilized in various ways to develop earthquake engineering. Especially in performance-based seismic design, dynamic response analysis is effective when strong motion ... -
A probabilistic framework for the assessment of bridges for once-off superloads
(2023)The transportation of once-off superloads is often treated using the same reliability levels as for new bridges which experience frequent normal and abnormal traffic loads for a remaining life of 100 years. An example of ... -
Probabilistic Corrosion Growth Models of Buried Steel Pipelines Using Inspection and Soil Survey Data
(2023)Buried steel pipelines are subjected to many possible threats during their service lives, and one of the dynamic threats to the integrity of such pipelines is external corrosion is present. The time-dependent performance ... -
Efficient Subset Simulations using Hamiltonian Neural Network enhanced Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods
(2023)The Monte Carlo method delivers an unbiased estimate of the probability of failure. However, the variance of the estimate depends on the number of evaluated samples. This number must be very large for estimations of a low ... -
Understanding the impacts of government spending on retrofits and buyouts to mitigate regional and homeowner impacts from hurricanes
(2023)Hurricanes cost lives, damage and destroy property, and devastate communities. Pairing mitigation tools with insurance improves resilience by reducing structural losses and speeding recovery. This study applies a computational ... -
Monetary Consequence Prediction for Hazardous Liquid Pipelines in US
(2023)There are more than 230,000 miles of hazardous liquid pipelines in the US, and more than 4,000 significant incidents have been reported since 2010 with 3.1-billion-dollar damage. The cost consequence estimation of pipeline ... -
A novel end-user-oriented approach to dynamic post-disaster resilience quantification for individual facilities
(2023)Community recovery from a disaster is a complex process, in which the importance of different types of infrastructure functionality can change over time. For instance, sheltering facilities can be critical in the immediate ... -
Development of Flood Vulnerability Functions for General Buildings in Japan using a Component-Based Approach
(2023)It is well known that Japan has historically faced many significant catastrophic (CAT) events, including floods, earthquakes, windstorms, among others. Evaluating the impact of CAT events on buildings is important to ... -
Assessment of onshore wind turbine fatigue damage subjected to tropical cyclone
(2023)Tropical cyclones (TCs) affect structures and infrastructure systems. They can cause low-cycle high amplitude stress for onshore and offshore structures, such as wind turbines (WTs). This study aims to evaluate the impact ... -
Developing an innovative region-wide risk-informed earthquake early warning decision support system
(2023)Earthquake early warning (EEW) systems provide brief notice to targeted audiences (e.g., civil protection services) of potentially destructive seismic events. This short warning time can be used to take rapid but effective ... -
Towards improved code-based performance objectives for liquefaction hazard analysis
(2023)Ground failure due to liquefaction in loose sand deposits poses substantial risks to the built environment, and has caused significant damage in past earthquakes to a wide range of infrastructure. Advances in liquefaction ... -
Influence of different historical best track databases on the assessed typhoon wind hazard for the coastal region of mainland China
(2023)Historical best track databases (HBTDs) are used as the basis for developing the tropical cyclone (TC) track model. Different HBTDs may not be consistent and may report different TC parameters. The impact of such inconsistency ... -
Active-learning-based system reliability analysis with budget constraints
(2023)Ensuring the safety of structures is a crucial task in engineering design. Structural reliability analysis provides practitioners with tools to estimate the probability of failure of various engineering systems. Failure ... -
Assessment of tsunami damage to buildings in resilient Byblos City and uncertainty considerations
(2023)Byblos is a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its resilience quality, as it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It thrived for over 7000 years, mitigating shocks and stresses and still adapting ... -
Reliability assessment of RC Bridges under seismic loads
(2023)An approach to estimate the probability of failure, the reliability index ? and the mean annual failure rate by using closed mathematical expressions is presented. The approach is related to the probabilistic seismic demand ... -
Duration of strong ground motion affected by site conditions.
(2023)The duration of strong earthquakes plays an important role in seismic design. Many studies have dedicated to the strong earthquakes duration, but the existing researches considering the effect of site conditions is not ... -
Near-real-time online process control using grey-box models
(2023)Near-real time control of dynamical processes is very beneficial as it enables detection and timely intervention in case of diminishing quality or necessary parameter adjustment. This can improve quality and reliability, ... -
A data-driven surrogate model for forecasting functionality states of transportation networks during extreme rainfall events based on the ConvLSTM method
(2023)A quick foresight (or a short-term forecast) of highly probable functionality states of transportation networks under extreme rainfall events can provide excellent reference for proactive risk mitigation interventions, ... -
Seismic risk-based design of simply-supported bridges in Italy
(2023)Current design codes are mostly based on a force-based seismic design approach, which accounts for the inelastic capacity of structures by means of a reduction coefficient, i.e. behaviour factor. In recent years, there has ... -
Flexible modeling of the trend for geotechnical spatial variability by Gaussian process regression
(2023)The spatial variation of a soil parameter is usually modeled as the summation of spatial trend and spatial variability. Traditional, the trend is assumed deterministic and is fitted by spatial data. However, previous studies ...
