Abstract: Large wood debris can cause critical damage to bridges and other riverine structures, and increase flood risk. Although their effects on hydrodynamic actions and flood levels have been investigated in recent research, ...

Abstract: System identification involves identification of a behavioral model that best explains the measured behavior of a structure. This research uses a strategy of generation and iterative filtering of multiple candidate models ...

Abstract: System identification using multiple-model strategies may involve thousands of models with several parameters. However, only a few models are close to the correct model. A key task involves finding which parameters are ...

Abstract: Measurements from load tests may lead to numerical models that better reflect structural behavior. This kind of system identification is not straightforward due to important uncertainties in measurement and models. Moreover, ...

Abstract: This paper describes computational approaches used in a prototype decision support system (DSS) for seismic design and performance evaluation of piping supports. The DSS is primarily based on a genetic algorithm (GA) that ...