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Valentina Gallina, Silvia Torresan, Alex Zabeo, Jonathan Rizzi, Sandro Carniel, Mauro Sclavo, Lisa Pizzol, Antonio Marcomini and Andrea Critto
Coastal erosion is an issue of major concern for coastal managers and is expected to increase in magnitude and severity due to global climate change. This paper analyzes the potential consequences of climate change on coastal erosion (e.g., impacts on be...
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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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Artem Marchenko, Rolands Kromanis and André G. Dorée
Temperature is the main driver of bridge response. It is continuously applied and may have complex distributions across the bridge. Daily temperature loads force bridges to undergo deformations that are larger than or equal to peak-to-peak traffic loads....
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Fang Dong, Zhongqi Shi, Rumian Zhong and Nan Jin
In this paper, A high-order response surface method is proposed for finite element model updating of continuous beam bridges. Firstly, based on visual inspection and environmental vibration testing, the peak picking (PP) method and random subspace identi...
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Xin Wang, Deyou Liu, Ling Zhou and Chao Li
The performance of wind turbines directly determines the profitability of wind farms. However, the complex environmental conditions and influences of various uncertain factors make it difficult to accurately assess and monitor the actual power generation...
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Oumaima Abra and Mahdi Ben Ftima
This work presents a new developed assessment methodology based on strength reduction and finite element methods which is suitable for existing large reinforced concrete structures commonly used in hydraulic constructions. The methodology is based on a r...
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Rosendo Lerma Villa, José Luis Reyes Araiza, José de Jesús Pérez Bueno, Alejandro Manzano-Ramírez and Maria Luisa Mendoza López
Pervious concrete has great potential for use in many practical applications as a part of urban facilities that can add value through water harvesting and mitigating severe damage from floods. The construction and agricultural industries can take direct ...
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Ruishan Xing, Gang Li, Fan Wang and Yang Yang
To ensure the overall continuity of displacement and out-of-plane stress in composite laminate structures and to quantitatively analyze the mechanical properties of composite materials after damage or repair, a finite element solution method is applied b...
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Junrong Wang, Chunlei He, Dianfu Fu, Kuang He and Junfeng Du
Fatigue failure caused by frequent tension and bending loads is a crucial safety concern for mooring chains used on floating structures in the oil and gas industry. The bending effect for a chain?s fatigue is usually not considered by existing fatigue an...
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Ali Aldrees, Abdulrasheed Mohammed, Salisu Dan?azumi and Sani Isah Abba
Flooding is a major environmental problem facing urban cities, causing varying degrees of damage to properties and disruption to socio-economic activities. Nigeria is the most populous African country and Kano metropolis is the second largest urban cente...
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