Abstract: Multiyear network maintenance and rehabilitation optimization is a key, longstanding challenge for infrastructure asset management. Although genetic algorithms (GAs) have been widely used as the default optimization tool, ...

Abstract: Robustness assessment is an important component for performance-based progressive collapse design. However, existing methods either do not consider the cascading failure feature of progress collapse, or fail to recognize ...

Abstract: Conventionally designed reinforced concrete (RC) deep beams often fail in a nonductile shear failure mode. A deep beam may embrace significant ductility through a careful layout optimization of the reinforcements, but this ...