Abstract: This paper presents a data set obtained from a monitoring campaign of 15 months on a steel bowstring railway bridge in Leuven, Belgium. In this period, the connections of the diagonals to the bridge deck and the arches ...

Abstract: Vehicle-bridge interaction has been studied for a long time to investigate the structural behavior of bridges and vehicle ride comfort. An original frequency domain method is presented where the vehicle-bridge interaction ...

Abstract: Realistic truss design optimization problems are often governed by practical constraints. Because of the complexity of these constraints, usually only member constraints are taken into account during the optimization, and ...

Abstract: Realistic truss design optimization problems are often governed by practical constraints. Because of the complexity of these constraints, usually only member constraints are taken into account during the optimization, and ...

Abstract: This paper deals with the dynamic analysis of multispan simply supported railway viaducts subjected to moving trains. In the analysis, the Sesia viaduct is considered, which is a composite railway bridge consisting of seven ...

Abstract: In situ characterization of dynamic soil characteristics by means of surface wave tests frequently involves the determination and inversion of dispersion and attenuation curves. The inverse problem is formulated as a ...

Abstract: This work focuses on the coupling of a validated source model for free field traffic-induced vibrations to a receiver model that enables one to predict the response of buildings, accounting for dynamic soil–structure ...

Abstract: In this paper, Bayesian linear finite-element (FE) model updating is applied for uncertainty quantification (UQ) in the vibration-based damage assessment of a 7-story RC building slice. This structure was built and tested ...

Abstract: The spectral analysis of surface waves (SASW) method aims to determine the small strain dynamic soil characteristics of shallow soil layers. The method involves an in situ experiment, the determination of an experimental ...

Abstract: This paper presents a study on the identification of progressive damage, using an equivalent linear finite-element model updating strategy, in a masonry infilled RC frame that was tested on a shake table. A two-thirds-scale, ...