Aug 8, 2014
A series of nonlinear seismic time history analyses was conducted in LS-DYNA to evaluate the seismic performance of buried reinforced concrete fluid storage structures. This study is aimed at presenting a sophisticated modeling procedure in time domain for...
Jul 25, 2014
Code-based procedures rely on a simplified sub-structure approach for analyzing soil structure interaction (SSI) effects. This simplified approach separates the site response analysis (SRA) from the SSI problem. Such separation prohibits a holistic view of the entire...
Jun 8, 2014
Continuous structural integrity monitoring (SIM) can be a valuable complementary tool to the current practice of periodic inspections in detecting damage in jacket platforms. Â This paper demonstrates the technical feasibility of adopting the recent advances in onshore...
Mar 26, 2014
This study investigated a number of different damage detection algorithms for structural health monitoring of a typical suspension bridge. The Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge, a part of the Interstate 80 in California, was selected for this study. The focus was to...
Mar 9, 2014
This study introduces an efficient procedure to estimate the structural response of a suspension bridge in real time based on a limited set of measured data. Unlike conventional techniques, the proposed procedure does not employ mode shapes and frequencies. In this...
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