Abstract: Data-enabled approaches using statistical machine learning are emerging to help engineers identify damage among sensory data, which could be extremely helpful for decision making and data management in structural health ...

Abstract: The tidal bore at the estuary of the Qiantang River in China is one of the most spectacular bores in the world. Although it is a famous scenic spot, it may cause disasters due to its destructive power. In this paper, a new ...

Abstract: Backward erosion piping (BEP) is a leading cause of levee and dam failures and generally occurs when seepage flow breaks through a defect in the downstream low-permeability blanket layer, causing a shallow erosion channel ...

Abstract: Welded joints and surrounded material discontinuity zones in metallic infrastructures are highly vulnerable to severe corrosion-induced damage, which significantly shortens the service life and leads to enormous economic ...