ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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Advanced Energy Harvesting Vibration Absorbers Using Inertial Amplifiers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Conventional dynamic vibration absorbers (DVAs) face challenges in achieving optimal vibration suppression and efficient energy harvesting due to design limitations and the absence of exact closed-form analytical solutions. ... -
Seafarer Fatigue Identification Based on PSO-ACLSTM
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The rapid development of the shipping industry and the increasingly complex maritime traffic pose potential risks, potentially leading to serious accidents and substantial economic losses. Identifying seafarer fatigue is ... -
Automatic Ship Collision Avoidance Algorithm Based on AIS Data Processing and Improved DWA Algorithm
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study proposes a path planning algorithm for maritime navigation that combines global trajectory extraction from a ship’s automatic identification system (AIS) data with local dynamic collision avoidance using the ... -
Physics-Informed Explainable AI and SMOTE-GPC for the Classification of Surrounding Rock Mass in Tunneling
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The classification of surrounding rock mass is essential for characterizing rock properties and geological conditions in tunneling engineering. While numerous empirical rock mass classification systems have been proposed ... -
Dynamic Maneuvering Decision-Making Approach for Ships Navigating Using Ship Routing Systems in a Complex Estuary: A Case Study on the Liuhe River
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Autonomous ships in different water areas have garnered significant attention. Researchers have gradually expanded their focus from simple open waters to more complex waters. This paper presents a dynamic maneuvering ... -
Uncertainty-Aware Structural Anomaly Detection under Varying Environmental Conditions Based on Bayesian Nonparametric Density Estimation–Guided Probabilistic Damage Index
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper presents a novel structural anomaly detection method that combines a truncation-free variational inference (VI)-based Dirichlet process Gaussian mixture model (DPGMM) with a Mahalanobis squared distance (MSD)-based ... -
Optimization of Tuned Mass Dampers by Considering Soil–Structure Interaction and Uncertainty in Soil Parameters
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The tuned mass damper (TMD) is one of the oldest and most widely used passive control devices, designed to absorb lateral energy from structures and mitigate vibrations. Various methods have been proposed for the optimal ... -
Numerical Simulation of Damage to Submarine Pipe-in-Pipe Systems Impacted by Falling Objects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Subsea pipe-in-pipe systems frequently encounter challenges from impact loads caused by falling objects, resulting in dents and damages that lead to oil and gas leakage. This study conducted a comprehensive analysis using ... -
Parallel Multifidelity Design of Experiment Strategy Considering Low-Fidelity Simulation Feasibility
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)For computationally demanding engineering applications with variable-fidelity numerical simulators, multifidelity surrogate modeling has emerged as a promising approach to mitigate the computational cost. This paper proposes ... -
Experimental Study on Soil Temperature and Deformation during an Artificial Ground-Freezing Process Considering Interface Differences
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Artificial ground freezing (AGF) is prevalently employed in the construction of tunnel connecting passages. The soil heat transfer process plays a pivotal role in temperature alterations during freezing, subsequently ... -
Evaluating Contributions of Emerging Technologies to Civil Infrastructure System Resilience. II: Case Studies
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Many emerging technologies are gaining attention in the civil engineering industry that claim to be able to aid in how civil infrastructure is constructed, monitored, or operated. At the same time, building and managing ... -
Evaluating Contributions of Emerging Technologies to Civil Infrastructure System Resilience. I: A Decision-Making Workflow
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Adopting emerging technologies (ETs) and enhancing civil infrastructure (CI) system resilience is a coupled process spanning technological, organizational, social, and economic dimensions, which concern both CI stakeholders ... -
Uncertainty-Aware Multifidelity Surrogate Modeling with Noisy Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Emulating high-accuracy computationally expensive models is crucial for tasks requiring numerous model evaluations, such as uncertainty quantification and optimization. When lower-fidelity models are available, they can ... -
Performance Assessment of Lead Rubber–Isolated Liquid Storage Tanks with Clutching Inertial Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Liquid storage tanks (LSTs)—lifeline structures—must remain functional after earthquake events. Concerns regarding high sloshing and isolator displacement have led to the use of base isolation technology to mitigate seismic ... -
Analysis of the Influence of Rolling Motion on the ROPAX Vessel with Firewater Accumulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)After firewater accumulates on the vehicle deck of a roll-on/roll-off cargo and passenger (ROPAX) vessel, the rolling of the vessel in a seaway can lead to the unexpected and rapid worsening of the situation. This paper ... -
Near-Fault Earthquake-Induced Vibration Control of a Supertall Benchmark Building Using an Inerter-Assisted Compliant Liquid Damper
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)To exploit the potential of liquid dampers for vibration control of supertall buildings, it is essential to install sizable liquid tanks at the top of the building to provide a substantial value of damper mass ratio to ... -
Multiway Analytics Applied to Railway Track Geometry and Ballast Conditions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Railroad systems generate large amounts of data, which, when effectively analyzed, can significantly enhance maintenance decisions to improve safety and system performance. Tensor decomposition, as an advanced multidimensional ... -
Multilevel Damage Indicator–Enabled Seismic Damage Evolution Analysis and Fragility Assessment of Structures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The current performance-based seismic evaluation methodologies can be broadly classified into three categories based on the adopted indicators: displacement-based seismic evaluation, energy-based seismic evaluation, and ... -
Analysis of Deformation Characteristics of Layered Rock Tunnel Excavation Based on Statistical Mechanics of Rock Masses
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Layered rock mass is prevalent in tunnel engineering, where deformation and failure of surrounding rock are primarily governed by discontinuity structural planes, leading to significant anisotropy in deformation and strength ... -
Limit-State Function Sensitivity under Epistemic Uncertainty: A Convex Model Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This work proposes a limit-state sensitivity index to identify the input variables of a structure or system which possess a significant impact on its state for the case where the input variables are subject to epistemic ...