Abstract: Damage assessment algorithms based on the system identification (SI) method are examined through laboratory experiments. The SI method considered herein identifies structural parameters in a finite-element model by minimizing ...

Abstract: A consistent finite-element formulation is presented in order to analyze the spatial stability of shear deformable thin-walled space frames and circular arches. The displacement field of unsymmetric thin-walled cross ...

Abstract: To present the spatial postbuckling analysis procedures of shear deformable thin-walled space frames with nonsymmetric cross sections, theoretical considerations based on the semitangential rotation and the semitangential ...

Abstract: This paper presents a damage assessment algorithm for framed structures based on a system identification scheme with a regularization technique. The regularization technique is introduced to alleviate the ill-posedness of ...

Abstract: In a companion paper, transformation rules of Rodriguez' finite rotations and semitangential rotations are derived, respectively, and their rotational properties are discussed. The shear deformable displacement field of ...

Abstract: A geometrically nonlinear buffeting analysis of a cable-stayed bridge in the time domain is described. The bridge structure is modeled with three-dimensional thin-walled beam elements and three-dimensional elastic catenary ...

Abstract: The nonlinear behavior of cable-supported bridges is governed by the geometric nonlinearity of cables, which is attributable to sag and sliding effects at the saddle. In a cable-stayed bridge with a midspan saddle, and in ...