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Oumaima Abra and Mahdi Ben Ftima
This work presents a new developed assessment methodology based on strength reduction and finite element methods which is suitable for existing large reinforced concrete structures commonly used in hydraulic constructions. The methodology is based on a r...
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Matthew G. Montgomery, Miles B. Yaw and John S. Schwartz
Probabilistic risk methods are becoming increasingly accepted as a means of carrying out risk-informed decision making regarding the design and operation policy of structures such as dams. Probabilistic risk calculations require the quantification of epi...
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Mei-Yung Leung, Khursheed Ahmed and Isabella Y. S. Chan
Engineers often play vital roles in technical planning, designing, and operating projects, as well as implementing standard requirements in the physical sites. Although architectural designs may be similar in a construction project, the technical problem...
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Jishuai Wang, Yazhou Xie, Tong Guo and Zhenyu Du
Most regional seismic damage assessment (RSDA) methods are based on the rigid-base assumption to ensure evaluating efficiency, while these practices introduce factual errors due to neglecting the soil?structure interaction (SSI). Predicting the influence...
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Meng Yu, Yaqiong Lv, Yuhang Wang and Xiaojing Ji
Berth allocation is a critical concern in container terminal port logistics, involving the precise determination of where and when arriving vessels should dock along a quay. With berth space limitations and a continuous surge in container handling demand...
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Arjun Srinivas, Bryson Robertson, Jonah Benjamin Gadasi, Barbara Gwynne Simpson, Pedro Lomónaco and Jesús María Blanco Ilzarbe
The worldwide effort to design and commission floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT) is motivating the need for reliable numerical models that adequately represent their physical behavior under realistic sea states. However, properly representing the hyd...
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Erkan Türker, Emre Bulut, Arda Kahraman, Mehmet Çakici and Ferruh Öztürk
In this paper, an energy-management strategy based on fuel economy is presented to achieve a further range increase for range-extended light commercial vehicles. Estimation of the energy-management strategy was carried out using a neural-network-based su...
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Wensen Zhang, Zilong Ping, Yongling Fu, Shicheng Zheng and Peng Zhang
A dynamic load simulator, which can reproduce on-ground aerodynamic hinge moment of control surface, is an essential rig for the performance and stability test of an aircraft actuation system. In this paper, an observer-based backstepping adaptive contro...
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Said Chaabani and Naoufel Azouz
The paper presents the modelling and stabilisation of an unconventional airship. The complexity of such a new design requires both proper dynamic modelling and control. A complete dynamic model is built here. Based on the developed dynamic model, a nonli...
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Pengfei Liu, Daimeng Shang, Qiang Liu, Zhihong Yi and Kai Wei
Offshore steel trestles (OSTs) are exposed to severe marine environments with stochastic wave and current loads, making structural safety assessment challenging and difficult. Reliability analysis is a suitable way to consider both wave and current loadi...
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