Abstract: This work investigated soil samples collected from the Kuan-Tu wetlands, Taiwan. Factor analysis was performed to explain the impact of various environmental factors on this coastal wetland located in suburban Taipei. The ...

Abstract: This study employs molecular simulation to construct styrene-ethylene-butadiene-styrene (SEBS)–modified asphalt at various temperatures and analyzes the structural changes during the blending process to investigate the ...

Abstract: In NEHRP 2003, a new mechanism-based reliability/redundancy factor,

Abstract: For performance evaluation of structural systems under seismic loads, accurate modeling of structural component and system response behavior in the nonlinear range is required. In this study, the differential-equation-based ...

Abstract: Safety assessments of river bridges have attracted a great deal of attention from researchers. Regardless of whether a bridge is being constructed or retrofitted, an integrated analysis of many factors, such as hydraulic ...