Civil Structural & Environ Eng: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
A Stable Method for Time-dependent Reliability Analysis
(2023)The problem of time-dependent reliability arises in engineering practice due to the degradation of structural material properties over time and the involvement of time-dependent loads. For time-dependent reliability analysis ... -
A closed-form non-stationary solution of fractional systems with order 1/2 subjected to stochastic excitation
(2023)Abstract: This paper develops a novel method for determining a closed-form non-stationary stochastic response of linear systems with fractional derivative order 1/2 and subjected to stationary stochastic excitation. This ... -
Stacked Sparse Autoencoders and Classical Artificial Neural Networks for the Inverse Uncertainty Quantification of Dynamic Engineering Systems Models
(2023)In the analysis of complex, safety-critical dynamic engineering systems, it is necessary to provide the uncertainty quantification of the outputs of the mathematical models (and the corresponding computer codes) used to ... -
Response of latticed shell subjected to uniform and spatially varying spectrum-matched seismic ground motion excitations
(2023)Seismic design of latticed shell structures requires the use of structural analysis results obtained by using the design spectrum-matched ground motion records. As finding such records from the database of the actual ... -
A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON SAMPLING BASED ALGORITHMS FOR NETWORK RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT
(2023)Infrastructure networks, such as electrical power grids, transportation and water supply systems, support critical societal functions of society. Failures of such networks can have severe consequences, and quantification ... -
Statistical-based model development with surrogate rainfall fields and its use to assess typhoon rain hazard for coastal region of mainland China
(2023)Tropical cyclones (TCs) could cause intense rainfall along the coastal region of mainland China. The modeling of rainfall intensity could be carried out using snapshots of the rainfall intensity field obtained from satellite ... -
On the similarity between discrete harmonic wavelet and discrete orthonormal S transform
(2023)Two efficient transforms: discrete harmonic wavelet transform (DHWT) and discrete orthonormal S transform (DOST) were developed in the literature. They can be used to analyze, model, and simulate nonstationary signals. ... -
Nonlinear Model-Data Fusion with Minimal Sensing for Performance-Based Seismic Monitoring of Instrumented Buildings
(2023)This paper presents a new concept for performance-based monitoring (PBM) of instrumented buildings subject to earthquakes. This concept is achieved by simultaneously combining and advancing existing knowledge from structural ...
