Abstract: Stay cables are vulnerable to excessive vibration because of their inherently low damping properties. Described in this paper is an experimental investigation of the vibration control performance due to passive negative ...

Abstract: Shear keys are widely used in small-to-medium–span highway bridges to restrain the superstructure laterally. Owing to deficiencies in the existing design codes in China, shear keys were damaged extensively in bridges that ...

Abstract: This paper provides a new approach to incorporating the stochastic nature of damage constitutive relations in the finite-element analysis of concrete structures. Within the framework of stochastic damage mechanics, the ...

Abstract: Miter gates are structures that act as both the damming surface and doorway of lock chambers and are commonly found on American rivers. Miter gates are assumed to have very little torsional stiffness, and their geometry ...

Abstract: Interstory drift response is one of most important quantities to quickly assess performance and damages in buildings. Nevertheless, direct measurement of interstory drift is difficult and expensive, because a stationary ...

Abstract: Due to the nonlinear nature of coordinate transformations, evaluation and calibration of multiaxial loading systems in global Cartesian coordinates are challenging problems. This study proposes a systematic calibration ...

Abstract: A full-scale experimental study was carried out on a two-story steel frame to investigate the progressive collapse behavior of beam–column joints with cast steel stiffeners (CSS). The frame was divided into four vertical ...

Abstract: Computer vision techniques for extracting dynamic structural displacements from videos are gaining increasing acceptance for the purposes of system identification and structural health monitoring. However, the application ...

Abstract: This paper examines the ASCE first generation benchmark problem for a seismically excited cable-stayed bridge, and proposes a new semiactive control strategy focusing on inclusion of effects of control-structure interaction. ...