Abstract: Specified wind speeds or their corresponding wind velocity pressures tabulated in structural design codes are spatially interpolated from the extreme value analysis results of wind records at meteorological stations. ...

Abstract: A fatigue reliability model which integrates the probability distribution of hot spot stress range with a continuous probabilistic formulation of Miner’s damage cumulative rule is developed for fatigue life and reliability ...

Abstract: This study focuses on how to exploit long-term monitoring data of structural strain for analytical modeling of multimodal rainflow-counted stress spectra by use of the method of finite mixture distributions in conjunction ...

Abstract: It is crucial for the design and operation of a high-speed railway to estimate and control the accumulative settlement of the subgrade induced by cyclic train loading. In this study, an analytical model, considering the ...

Abstract: It is crucial for the design and operation of a high-speed railway to estimate and control the accumulative settlement of the subgrade induced by cyclic train loading. In this study, an analytical model, considering the ...

Abstract: Crack inspection is a crucial but labor-intensive work of maintenance for in-service bridges. Recently, the development of fully convolutional network (FCN) provides pixel-wise semantic segmentation, which is promising as ...

Abstract: Sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, a workshop on the boundary element method (BEM) was held on the campus of the University of Akron during September 1–3, 2010 (NSF, 2010, ...