Abstract: The thermal stress responses of various structural asphalt pavement under different cooling conditions were analyzed considering thermal-viscoelasticiy of asphalt pavement mixture by using finite element software. The ...

Abstract: With the extensive studies on energy harvesting via electromagnetic devices in civil or mechanical structures, a novel dual-function device, termed electromagnetic damping and energy harvesting (EMDEH) device, has been ...

Abstract: Vibration-based methods are promising for damage identification; however, their capabilities for damage identification under temperature variations are usually limited. In the paper, a vibration-based nondestructive global ...

Abstract: The Laplace transform-based spectral element method (LTSEM) can avoid some limitations of the conventional Fourier transform-based spectral element method (FTSEM) in handling finite-length structures, such as the wrap ...

Abstract: Aerospace and civil structures are sometimes measured under free constraints. In many substructuring methods, the substructures are independently analyzed with free constraints as well. When a structure is free because of ...

Abstract: The fire resistance behavior of completely overlapped tubular joints was experimentally and numerically investigated. Three completely overlapped tubular joint specimens with different geometric properties were tested to ...

Abstract: This study investigates the structural characteristics of midtowers in three-tower suspension bridges and proposes a direct approach to determining feasible midtower stiffness for preliminary designs. The lateral stiffness ...

Abstract: Tuned inerter dampers (TID) have been demonstrated as efficient energy dissipation devices for seismic response control. However, its potential capability for energy harvesting remains largely unexplored. Here, we present ...