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Massimiliano Pepe, Domenica Costantino and Vincenzo Saverio Alfio
The aim of the paper is to identify a suitable method for assessing the deformation of structures (buildings, bridges, walls, etc.) by means of topographic measurements of significant targets positioned on the infrastructure under consideration. In parti...
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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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Chenhao Zhao, Bingchuan Bai, Lianyue Liang, Ziyu Cheng, Xixian Chen, Weijie Li and Xuefeng Zhao
Strain measurements have a significant role in evaluating the condition of various structural types and have become an essential component in the area of structural health monitoring. However, there are some limitations in the current means of strain mea...
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Dario De Domenico, Emanuele Gandelli and Alberto Gioitta
The inelastic response of reinforced concrete (RC) frames under seismic loading is influenced by mechanical and geometrical properties and by the reinforcement arrangement of the beam?column members. In this paper, the seismic response and recentering be...
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Qikai Zhuang, Xiaoquan Cheng, Peijie Yue, Xin Guo and Kai Li
Coal-based carbon foam (CCF) has broad application prospects in aerospace, composite material tooling and other fields. However, the lack of failure criteria limits its promotion. In previous studies, the failure criteria of similar materials were propos...
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Fredrik Marincowitz, Michael Owen, Jacques Muiyser and Peter Holkers
Ambient wind has a negative effect on mechanical forced-draft direct air-cooled steam condenser (ACC) fan volumetric performance, and increases dynamic fan blade loading. Investigating these effects directly using on-site measurement or numerical analysi...
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Kasumi Morita, Masashi Mouri, Riccardo Fincato and Seiichiro Tsutsumi
This paper investigates the fatigue cyclic deformation behavior of mid-carbon steel. Uniaxial tensile loading tests and fatigue tests under constant and multi-step amplitude loading steps are performed to characterize the influence of loading history. Th...
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Kun Meng, Chunyi Cui, Haijiang Li and Hailong Liu
The traditional way of designing energy pile system is mostly single domain/objective oriented, which lacks of means to coherently consider different while relevant factors across domains. The cost for life cycle design, construction and maintenance, ret...
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Stavros K. Kourkoulis, Ermioni D. Pasiou, Andronikos Loukidis, Ilias Stavrakas and Dimos Triantis
The quantitative determination of the current load carrying capability of already loaded structural elements and the possibility to detect proper indices that could be considered as signals for timely warning that the load carrying capacity is exhausted ...
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Mattia Mairone, Rebecca Asso, Davide Masera, Stefano Invernizzi, Francesco Montagnoli and Alberto Carpinteri
Orthotropic steel deck (OSD) bridges are lightweight constructions which are convenient, especially for the achievement of long spans. Conversely, due to the stress concentration in correspondence to the numerous and unavoidable welded construction detai...
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