Abstract: More than 4% of the bridges in mountainous areas of Southwest China are constructed with piers having a height of over 4 m. Such piers are characterized by large structural flexibility and distributed mass. To investigate ...

Abstract: The paper presents a new formulation of a beam finite element for the time-dependent analysis of self-anchored suspension bridges, considering the shear lag in a multicell concrete box girder. The beam kinematics are deduced ...

Abstract: AbstractUnmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) hold promise for automating civil infrastructure inspections, but reliable pose estimation is crucial for autonomous navigation in GPS-denied environments. While simultaneous ...