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Carlo Boursier Niutta, Pierpaolo Padula, Andrea Tridello, Marco Boccaccio, Francesco Acerra and Davide S. Paolino
This paper deals with an innovative nondestructive technique for composites (local-IET), which is based on the Impulse Excitation Technique (IET) and, in the presence of damage, assesses the degradation of the elastic properties of a local region of the ...
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Artur Kulaszka, Józef Blachnio and Henryk Borowczyk
The reliability and operational safety of an aircraft engine gas turbine are extremely important in terms of its operation. In the course of operation, these turbines undergo complex thermal, mechanical, aerodynamic, and chemical exhaust gas loads. Due t...
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Yves Reuland, Panagiotis Martakis and Eleni Chatzi
Rapid post-earthquake damage assessment forms a critical element of resilience, ensuring a prompt and functional recovery of the built environment. Monitoring-based approaches have the potential to significantly improve upon current visual inspection-bas...
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Ali Jahami, Jana Halawi, Yehya Temsah and Lina Jaber
Blast loadings have become the subject of research in recent decades due to the threats they pose to the surrounding medium. On 4 August 2020, a huge explosion occurred in the Port of Beirut that led to massive damages in the medium surrounding it. Resea...
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Jun-Fang Wang, Jian-Fu Lin and Yan-Long Xie
Subjected to complex loadings from the wheel?rail interaction, turnout rail is prone to crack damage. This paper aims to develop a condition evaluation method for crack-alike damage detection of in-service turnout rail. A covariance-based structural cond...
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Yuewei Hou, Yongping Wei, Shuanglei Wu and Jinghan Li
Flooding has become one of the most dangerous and expensive disasters due to urbanization and climate change. Tools for assessing flood impact are required to support the shift of flood mitigation management from post-disaster recovery and reconstruction...
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Manuel Nhangumbe, Andrea Nascetti and Yifang Ban
Floods are one of the most frequent natural disasters worldwide. Although the vulnerability varies from region to region, all countries are susceptible to flooding. Mozambique was hit by several cyclones in the last few decades, and in 2019, after cyclon...
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Jishuai Wang, Yazhou Xie, Tong Guo and Zhenyu Du
Most regional seismic damage assessment (RSDA) methods are based on the rigid-base assumption to ensure evaluating efficiency, while these practices introduce factual errors due to neglecting the soil?structure interaction (SSI). Predicting the influence...
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Yuanzhi Guo, Shuqing Wang, Haiyan Guo and Xiancang Song
Due to inherent nonlinearities within floating systems and the second-order wave forces affecting them, the dynamic responses of floating systems manifest as bimodal Gaussian processes. Consequently, the classical spectral fatigue assessment method groun...
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Maryam Nasim and Sujeeva Setunge
The structural safety and serviceability during extreme weather, such as floods and storms, is critical. Due to global warming in the last decades, the increase in the intensity of natural disasters, i.e., flood loading and the durability of the road str...
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Alon Urlainis and Igal M. Shohet
Fragility curves are a common tool to appraise the expected damage to critical infrastructure (CI) after an earthquake event. Previous studies offer fragility curve parameters for CI that are suitable for a vast range of systems, without an in-depth exam...
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Zafeiria Theodosopoulou, Ioannis M. Kourtis, Vasilis Bellos, Konstantinos Apostolopoulos, Chryssy Potsiou and Vassilios A. Tsihrintzis
Post-disaster flood risk assessment is extremely difficult owing to the great uncertainties involved in all parts of the assessment exercise, e.g., the uncertainty of hydrologic?hydraulic models and depth?damage curves. In the present study, a robust and...
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Andrea Miano, Fabio Di Carlo, Annalisa Mele, Ilaria Giannetti, Nicoletta Nappo, Matteo Rompato, Pasquale Striano, Manuela Bonano, Francesca Bozzano, Riccardo Lanari, Paolo Mazzanti, Alberto Meda, Andrea Prota and Gabriele Scarascia Mugnozza
Structural health monitoring is a crucial issue in areas with different hazard sources, such as Italy. Among non-invasive monitoring techniques, remote sensing provides useful information in supporting the management process and safety evaluations, reduc...
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Neel Renne, Patricia Kara De Maeijer, Bart Craeye, Matthias Buyle and Amaryllis Audenaert
Nowadays, a vast number of concrete structures are approaching the end of their expected service life. The need for maintenance and repair is high due to the continued deterioration of the existing building inventory and infrastructure, resulting in a la...
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Zhaoyu Xue, Linsheng Huo, Peiyu Ying and Hongnan Li
Shear wall structures are widely used in civil engineering, and their seismic design has been the focus of much attention. Explosions can result from the rupture and ignition of gas pipelines under seismic action, and there are currently no methods to ap...
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?eljana Nikolic, Elena Benvenuti and Luka Runjic
The seismic risk assessment of existing urban areas provides important information for the process of seismic risk reduction in different phases of planning and emergency management. Between different large-scale assessment approaches, a vulnerability in...
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Yun Sun , Qiuwei Yang and Xi Peng
Vibration-based damage assessment technology is a hot topic in aerospace engineering, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering. In this paper, a damage assessment approach using multiple-stage dynamic flexibility analysis is proposed for structural ...
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Sifat Muin and Khalid M. Mosalam
Machine learning (ML)-aided structural health monitoring (SHM) can rapidly evaluate the safety and integrity of the aging infrastructure following an earthquake. The conventional damage features used in ML-based SHM methodologies face the curse of dimens...
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Dimitrios G. Dimogianopoulos and Dionysios E. Mouzakis
A framework for condition monitoring of joints between composite components of a structure by means of sensing elements incorporated into one of the components, contactless recording of the structure?s response to vibratory input and use of a dedicated a...
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Sangki Park and Kichul Jung
Seismic activities are serious disasters that induce natural hazards resulting in an incalculable amount of damage to properties and millions of deaths. Typically, seismic risk assessment can be performed by means of structural damage information compute...
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