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Yanqiong Ding, Yazhou Xu and Huiquan Miao
A seismic checking method of engineering structures based on the stochastic semi-physical model of seismic ground motions is developed. Four groups of stochastic ground motions are generated using the stochastic semi-physical model of seismic ground moti...
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Heungbae Gil, Kyoungbong Han, Junho Gong and Dooyong Cho
In areas of civil engineering, the resilient friction base isolator (R-FBI) system has been used due to its enhanced isolation performance under seismic excitations. However, because nonlinear behavior of the R-FBI should be reflected in seismic design, ...
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Van-Quang Nguyen, Muhammad Aaqib, Duy-Duan Nguyen, Nguyen-Vu Luat and Duhee Park
A series of one-dimensional (1-D) site response analyses were performed using the nonlinear (NL) and equivalent linear (EQL) approaches to assess the applicability of the Vietnamese earthquake-resistance design code TCVN 9386: 2012. Six soil profiles wer...
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Chi-Thien Nguyen, Thanh-Truong Nguyen, Trung-Hau Nguyen, Ba-Tung Le, Tran-De-Nhat Truong, Duc-Duy Ho and Thanh-Canh Huynh
This study examined the feasibility of the admittance-based method for detecting simulated damage in the bearing plate of a prestressed anchorage. The proposed method utilized the PZT (lead zirconate titanate) interface technique to acquire a strong admi...
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Oscar Álvarez, Enrique Muñoz, Nelson Maureira-Carsalade and Ángel Roco-Videla
The most used global sensitivity analysis (GSA) method is based on variance. This is performed using Monte Carlo Sampling (MCS) or Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS). It requires a large sample to obtain accurate estimates. Density-based methods, such as the...
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Wenbo Pan, Cheng Cui and Meng He
A freak wave is a spike in a random wave series and hence the local characteristics in the time-domain are of key importance. When freak waves act on moored floating structures, the dynamic responses of the structures in the time and frequency domains ch...
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Jianxing Yu, Fucheng Wang, Yang Yu, Haoda Li, Xin Liu and Ruoke Sun
Multilayer composite flexible risers have been widely used in engineering. However, this type of structure is complex, as there are influences between layers. Moreover, a range of uncertain factors need to be considered in fatigue analysis. Therefore, it...
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Mao Ye, Ran Li, Weimin Tu, Jialing Liao and Xunchi Pu
Landscape water is an important part of natural landscape, and a reasonable assessment of water landscape color is the basis for scientifically evaluating the quality of water landscape. To evaluate water landscape color with different concentrations of ...
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Junlin Li and Wei Wang
This research is focused on improving the conventional response spectrum analysis (CRSA) method for the elastic shear demands estimation of shear-dominated steel building frames. An alternative approach named the improved response spectrum analysis (IRSA...
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Claudio Amadio, Luca Bomben and Salvatore Noè
In this work, a general method for the design of concentric braced steel frames (CBF) with active tension diagonal bracings, applicable to single- and multi-storey structures, is presented. The method is based on the use of an elastic modal analysis with...
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Andrii Sulym, Pavlo Khozia, Eduard Tretiak, Václav Pí?tek, Oleksij Fomin and Pavel Kucera
This article deals with the method of computer-aided studies of the results of tank container impact tests to confirm the ability of portable tanks and multi-element gas containers to withstand the impact in the longitudinal direction on a specially equi...
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Yingzhou Liu, Xin Li and Youwei Zhang
With the development of large-scale offshore projects, sea ice is a potential threat to the safety of offshore structures. The main forms of damage to bottom-fixed offshore structures under sea ice are crushing failure and bending failure. Referred to as...
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Lizhong Jiang, Yuntai Zhang, Yulin Feng, Wangbao Zhou and Zhihua Tan
The dynamic response of a simply supported double-beam system under moving loads was studied. First, in order to reduce the difficulty of solving the equation, a finite sin-Fourier transform was used to transform the infinite-degree-of-freedom double-bea...
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Xiong Wang, Wei Liu, Jifeng Ding, Yi Sun and Yongbing Dang
The initiating explosive shock environment of an aerospace mission has the characteristics of instantaneity, high amplitude and a wide frequency domain. An improved method based on the acceleration frequency response function (FRF) and virtual mode synth...
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Carlotta Pia Contiguglia, Angelo Pelle, Bruno Briseghella and Camillo Nuti
Well-known methods for seismic performance assessment, such as incremental dynamic analysis (IDA), multi-stripes analysis (MSA) and the cloud method, involve nonlinear response time-history analyses to characterize the relationship between the chosen dam...
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Chun-Xu Qu, Chang-Chong Liu, Xiao-Mei Yang, Hui-Juan Liu, Hong-Nan Li and Yu-Feng Zhang
Tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with severe excitation such as high wind. This severe excitation may change the performance of structures, such as bridges, wharves and wind turbine structures. It is very necessary to monitor this impo...
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Timur Agliullin, Vladimir Anfinogentov, Oleg Morozov, Airat Sakhabutdinov, Bulat Valeev, Ayna Niyazgulyeva and Yagmyrguly Garovov
The work is dedicated to a comparative analysis of the following methods for fiber Bragg grating (FBG) spectral response modeling. The Layer Sweep (LS) method, which is similar to the common layer peeling algorithm, is based on the reflectance and transm...
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Yunlai Zhou, Longlong He, Fei Yang and Jingmang Xu
Metal sheets have good performance and have been widely used. Different kinds of defects can be generated during the preparation and service of metal plates, which will cause the structural performance of the metal plates to decline, thus requiring struc...
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Fanxizi Liu, Qiang Gao, Hui Guo, Chenhong Lang, Jinhua Jiang and Yiping Qiu
To test the acoustic performance of fiber-reinforced composites for replacing wood, an acoustic vibration test method is developed. For evaluation of the test method, composites are manufactured using hemp and ramie embedded in epoxy, through vacuum-assi...
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Yajian Li, Danfeng Zhou and Jie Li
Due to the limited deviation range of the controllable levitation gap, the vehicle/track coupling dynamic problem of the maglev transportation system is very prominent. The stability of the electromagnetic levitation system is deeply affected by the trac...
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