Abstract: The double-inclusion model consists of an ellipsoidal inclusion of arbitrary elasticity, containing another ellipsoidal heterogeneity of arbitrary elasticity, size, and orientation, which are embedded ...

Abstract: For a sample of a general heterogeneous nonlinearly elastic material, it is shown that, among all consistent boundary data which yield the same overall average strain (stress), the strain ...

Abstract: A novel methodology of image analysis was designed to assess more quantitative seismic damage estimation at the building level for a city area in which 10–30% of the entire building stock was damaged. The methodology is ...

Abstract: The parallel scalability of the seismic response analysis (SRA) module of the Integrated Earthquake Simulator (IES) is enhanced to achieve near-ideal scalability. In previous studies, the SRA module was enhanced with ...

Abstract: Localization (determination of the position of each sensor node) of a large scale sensor network is an important issue for applying network sensing technique to infrastructure monitoring. This paper presents a concept and ...

Abstract: Damage to buried pipelines caused by local amplification of seismic ground motion in highly nonuniform grounds is not yet fully understood. The development of methods to evaluate the amplification of ground motion in complex ...

Abstract: We demonstrate a comprehensive earthquake response analysis method for improving the seismic input force estimation of buried pipelines by combining ground motion and soil amplification analyses. Using this method, the ...