ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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Tracing the Factors Influencing Learning from Incidents Behavior in the Construction Industry: Based on a Complex Systems Perspective
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Learning from incidents (LFI) is an effective behavior to prevent risk and uncertainty in the construction industry, while being subject to multiple systems working together. Existing research on LFI behavior is still at ... -
Integrating Bluetooth-Enabled Sensors with Cloud Computing for Fire Hazard Communication Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Due to the complex modern construction processes and the diversity of building materials, a diversified construction environment has emerged, making it difficult to accurately predict and monitor the risk of fire hazards. ... -
Nondeterministic Kriging for Probabilistic Systems with Mixed Continuous and Discrete Input Variables
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This paper presents a nondeterministic kriging (NDK) method to approximate the response of probabilistic systems with mixed continuous and discrete input variables. The proposed method approximates both epistemic (extrinsic) ... -
Quantification of Polymorphic Uncertainties: A Quasi-Monte Carlo Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)A novel methodology for the quantification of mixed and nested polymorphic uncertainties has been developed. It is designed to be applied to moderately computationally expensive deterministic models, and it preserves the ... -
Design Optimization with Variable Screening by Interval-Based Sensitivity Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Design optimization problems are very common in engineering practice. Determining their solution may be challenging when many design variables are involved. A means to cope with such large number of design variables consists ... -
Track Geometry Estimation and Hanging Sleeper Detection Using Vehicle Dynamic Responses with Unknown System Parameters
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This study presents an efficient, but effective, approach to infer railroad track geometries and locate hanging sleepers from the car body responses. A half-car model is employed to represent the bounce and pitch motions ... -
Investigation of Intraclass Correlation of Seismic Capacity for RC Bridge Piers Based on Hierarchical Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The framework for performance-based seismic design and assessment of bridges grapples with the pressing challenge of precisely estimating the seismic capacities correlation amongst bridge piers. To address this issue, a ... -
Proposed Bayesian Network Framework to Model Multisite Seismic Hazard with Existing Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis Results
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Seismic events concurrently affect multiple facilities within an infrastructure system or portfolio distributed across a geographic region. When calculating the multisite seismic hazard to support system-level risk ... -
Research and Application of Risk-Based Safety Insurance Technology for Petrochemical Plants
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The current safety insurance assessment for chemical enterprises often refers to financial empirical models, lacking underlying safety failure data for premium determination and safety investment, and overlooking high-risk ... -
Operational Influence Line Identification of High-Speed Railway Bridge Considering Uncertainty of Train Load
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The bridge influence line (BIL) contains static information for each section of a bridge, which is an important tool for bridge design and condition evaluation. The current influence line identification procedure relies ... -
New Approach for Conditional Coring in RC Structures Using Bivariate Distributions of Nondestructive Test Results
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Nondestructive tests (NDT) and partially destructive tests (PDT) are routinely employed for the management of aging infrastructure assets. Owing to the uncertainties in such NDT/PDT data, codes and guidelines recommend the ... -
Ship Trajectory Prediction Model Based on Improved Bi-LSTM
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Ship trajectory prediction plays an important role in ensuring ship safety; through accurate ship positioning, the future trajectory of ships and their encounter time and location can be obtained, which facilitates the ... -
Comprehensive Risk System Analysis and Factor Coupling in Underground Railway Space
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The rapid expansion and intensification of urbanization have led to increased growth and utilization of underground spaces. This trend has raised safety concerns, necessitating additional preventive and mitigation measures. ... -
Risk Comparison of Hurricane Scenarios as Disruptions of Hydrologic Basin Order with Social Vulnerability Criteria
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Economic damages of hurricanes and tropical cyclones are increasing faster than the populations and wealth of many coastal areas. There is urgency to update priorities of agencies engaged with risk assessment, risk mitigation, ... -
An Optimized Site Selection Method for Human-Life Search and Rescue in Inland Waters
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This study proposes a method to select optimal sites for human-life search and rescue operations in inland waters. It was used to bridge the disparity between the distribution of current water search and rescue facilities ... -
Crack Detection via Hierarchical Multiscale Feature Learning and Densely Connected Conditional Random Field
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)Crack analysis based on computer vision has become a common approach for crack detection and localization in civil infrastructure. In practice, many cracks show poor continuity, uneven gray levels, low contrast, complex ... -
Modeling and Analysis of Petri Nets for Multimodal Transport “Single Contract” Systems Based on Blockchain
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)This paper aims to use blockchain technology to promote the development of the “single contract” system to solve the critical problems of multimodal transport process optimization. Firstly, we study the development process ... -
A Novel Air Curtain Mitigation System for a Toxic Gas Storage Tank
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)A mitigation system is significant in that it blocks the flow of toxic gas and prevents the growth of hazardous areas, thereby securing sufficient evacuation time. A new air curtain mitigation system was developed to prevent ... -
System Identification via Unscented Kalman Filtering and Model Class Selection
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)Identifying the mechanical properties of civil structures is required for life-cycle assessment. Kalman filters are exploited for this goal, enabling the online update of a numerical model, acting as the digital twin of ... -
Stochastic Analysis and Time-Dependent Reliability of Reinforced Concrete Beams Considering Spatially Distributed Corrosion Deterioration
(ASCE, 2024/06/01)Reinforcement corrosion is an important part of durability research of concrete structures. The process of reinforcement corrosion is highly random due to various factors, and the effect of spatial distribution of reinforcement ...