Abstract: Failures of coastal low-lying bridges in the United States along the Gulf Coast have attracted substantial research interest. Many of the failures were associated with twin-deck bridges. This study presents a series of ...

Abstract: Most practical automotive problems require the design of experiments (DoEs) over a number of different operating conditions to deliver optimal calibration parameters. DoE is especially crucial for automotive engine calibration ...

Abstract: The slamming phenomenon often occurs when the bottom of a ship hits the seawater with a relatively high velocity in irregular waves. In extreme sea conditions, the slam-induced dynamic loads can be quite large resulting ...

Abstract: A surrogate-assisted optimization approach is an attractive way to reduce the total computational budget for obtaining optimal solutions. This makes it special for its application to practical optimization problems requiring ...