Abstract: In this paper, a damage assessment method for remotely inspecting the near-surface condition of multilayer composite systems is proposed. The method utilizes far-field steady-state electromagnetic waves reflected from the ...

Abstract: In this paper, a disturbance-based methodology was proposed to represent the safety level of a car-following scenario. According to the probabilistic causal model, the following vehicles always take evasive actions to avoid ...

Abstract: Due to the aging of transportation infrastructures and the ever-increasing traffic, the condition assessment of bridges has become increasingly important because it provides useful information for bridge management. A ...

Abstract: This paper is intended to review the main causes and mechanisms of bridge collapse. The common factors resulting in bridge collapse are first reviewed. These factors are classified into two broad categories, namely, natural ...

Abstract: The bearing performance of both vertically and horizontally reinforced composite foundation formed by horizontal reinforcement settled on top of granular piles, which can restrict the failure of granular piles, was studied. ...

Abstract: The hyperbolic p−y curve method is commonly used to design laterally loaded piles. The initial stiffness (K) and the ultimate resistance per pile length (pu) are the two key parameters that are required to determine the ...

Abstract: Rock bursts are disastrous when occurring during the construction of tunnels in a deep underground rock mass, and they occur under two key conditions: energy release from surrounding rocks; and fracture propagation. Based ...

Abstract: Recently, a variety of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) approaches have been developed for health assessment and residual capacity estimation of timber structures. Among these methods, guided wave (GW)–based techniques are ...

Abstract: Multiple stakeholders in transboundary river basins would benefit from cooperation, but how and why stakeholders can achieve this cooperation remains difficult to determine. This paper proposes an approach for analyzing ...