Abstract: Posthazard reconnaissance is essential following natural hazards, such as earthquakes, strike a community. Conducting reconnaissance efforts with efficiency and accuracy is necessary to expedite recovery and support ...

Abstract: For understanding characteristics of polymethylmetacrylate (PMMA) under impact, the damage behavior of PMMA plates with various thicknesses (1.5 to 6.0 mm) subjected to ballistic impacts with various velocities (63 ...

Abstract: In bridge health monitoring (BHM), a prominent goal is to rapidly deliver assessment metrics for these essential and aging urban lifelines when subjected to natural hazard. A vibration-based machine learning (ML) BHM ...

Abstract: In structural dynamics, direct integration algorithms are commonly used to solve the temporally discretized differential equations of motion. Integration algorithms are categorized into either implicit or explicit. Implicit ...

Abstract: A large number of stairways experienced minor to extreme damage during Wenchuan Earthquake (

Abstract: The paper presents the experimental investigation of full-scale RC corner beam-column joints without transverse reinforcement in the joint region leading to nonductile behavior in many exiting RC buildings. The experimental ...

Abstract: Effective, economical, and timely repair of RC bridges after a seismic event is crucial. Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite laminates are one of few options and have several advantages. The paper presents shaking ...

Abstract: With the rapid development of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) in computer vision, adopting these learning tools in vision-based structural health monitoring (SHM) and rapid damage assessment is attracting ...

Abstract: A solution algorithm is proposed for nonlinear structural analysis problems involving static and/or dynamic loads based on the Lyapunov stability theory. The main idea is to reformulate the equations of motion into a ...