Abstract: The most popular type of bridge in service today is the concrete deck on steel-girder composite bridge. A finite-element model is built to analyze the superstructure of this type of bridge under working load conditions. ...

Abstract: With the arrival of cyber physical world and an extensive support of advanced information technology (IT) infrastructure, nowadays it is possible to obtain the footprints of design activities through emails, design journals, ...

Abstract: Digital prototypes (DPs) allow designers to communicate design concepts to users by rendering physical characteristics of the concepts. To enhance user understanding of the concepts, it is important that the users be able ...

Abstract: Design documents and design project footprints accumulated by corporate information technology systems have increasingly become valuable sources of evidence for design information and knowledge management. Identification ...

Abstract: A combined structure for autoupdating rotating component characteristic maps is proposed for an individual aeroengine model. The designed combined structure, known as the Newton–Raphson (NR)-particle swarm optimization ...

Abstract: The main purpose of the Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) project is connecting the major cities of Taiwan, Taipei in the north and Kaohsiung in the south. With the total construction investment amounting to approximately US$15 ...

Abstract: In this paper, a novel state-propagation extreme learning machine using a Kalman filter (KF-ELM) is proposed. In comparison with the plain extreme learning machine, the proposed algorithm takes the topological parameters ...

Abstract: The attitude tracking form quaternion measurements for a three-axis stabilized liquid-filled spacecraft are studied under uncertain parametric and external disturbances. The sloshing liquid inside the partially filled ...