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Accelerating reliability analysis of deteriorated simply supported concrete beam with a newly developed approach: MCS, FORM and ANN (2024)
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Reliability analysis methods are used to evaluate the safety of reinforced concrete structures by evaluating the limit state function g(Xi). For implicit limit state function and nonlinear analysis, an advanced reliability analysis methods are needed... Read More about Accelerating reliability analysis of deteriorated simply supported concrete beam with a newly developed approach: MCS, FORM and ANN.

Inter-room pollutant transmission routes in naturally ventilated street canyon buildings (2023)
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Airborne transmission of pollutants is a significant concern in urban areas, especially since the recent pandemic. While previous studies have explored inter-room pollutant crossflow in highrise buildings and isolated scenarios, the ventilation chara... Read More about Inter-room pollutant transmission routes in naturally ventilated street canyon buildings.

Reliability analysis of deteriorated post-tensioned concrete bridges: The case study of Ynys-y-Gwas bridge in UK (2022)
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Concrete structures are exposed to aggressive environmental conditions that lead to corrosion of the embedded reinforcement and pre-stressing steel. Consequently, the safety of concrete structures may be compromised, and this requires a significant b... Read More about Reliability analysis of deteriorated post-tensioned concrete bridges: The case study of Ynys-y-Gwas bridge in UK.

Mapping out the landscape of literature on assessment in engineering education (2021)
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Over recent decades, literature on assessment in higher education has intensified generating a wealth of frameworks to inform practice. Generic frameworks for assessment practice are sometimes perceived as missing subject-specific considerations. Thi... Read More about Mapping out the landscape of literature on assessment in engineering education.

Wind tunnel measurements of the aerodynamic characteristics of a 3:2 rectangular cylinder including non-Gaussian and non-stationary features (2021)
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This paper presents a wind tunnel investigation of the aerodynamic characteristics (force and pressure coefficients) of a static 3:2 rectangular cylinder in smooth flow for angles of attack between −4° and 90° at various values of Reynolds number. In... Read More about Wind tunnel measurements of the aerodynamic characteristics of a 3:2 rectangular cylinder including non-Gaussian and non-stationary features.

Typhoon track simulations in the North West Pacific: Informing a new wind map for Vietnam (2020)
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This paper addresses the need to revise the current Vietnamese design wind map by proposing a new typhoon wind map for the country, based on Monte Carlo simulations of typhoon tracks in the North West Pacific basin. Using historical typhoon data from... Read More about Typhoon track simulations in the North West Pacific: Informing a new wind map for Vietnam.

A regression-based damage detection method for structures subjected to changing environmental and operational conditions (2020)
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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Damage detection of civil engineering structures during the past decade has focused on eliminating the effects of the changing environmental and operational conditions, from the effects of damage. In the literature, a regression a... Read More about A regression-based damage detection method for structures subjected to changing environmental and operational conditions.

An observation of non-stationary response to non-synoptic wind on the Forth Road Bridge (2020)
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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd The GeoSHM project feasibility study for monitoring the Forth Road Bridge is briefly introduced and the instrumentation summarised. The events of January 9th, 2015 are described, when the bridge was struck by storm Elon, which cau... Read More about An observation of non-stationary response to non-synoptic wind on the Forth Road Bridge.

Application of GeoSHM System in Monitoring Extreme Wind Events at the Forth Road Bridge (2019)
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© 2019 by the authors. Implementation of Structural Health Monitoring systems on long-span bridges has become mandatory in many countries to ascertain the safety of these structures and the public, taking into account an increase in usage and threats... Read More about Application of GeoSHM System in Monitoring Extreme Wind Events at the Forth Road Bridge.

Dynamic column loss analysis of reinforced concrete flat slabs (2019)
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The sudden column loss idealisation is a useful design tool to assess structures for progressive collapse. As such an event is a dynamic problem, suitable account must be taken of these effects. This can either be achieved by a full dynamic analysis... Read More about Dynamic column loss analysis of reinforced concrete flat slabs.

3D LES simulations of a static and vertically free-to-oscillate 4:1 rectangular cylinder: Effects of the grid resolution (2019)
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Vortex induced vibration (VIV) is an important phenomenon which appears in flexible structures immersed in a moving fluid. This oscillation is self-sustained and self-limited, but VIV might cause fatigue damage and affect the structure's serviceabili... Read More about 3D LES simulations of a static and vertically free-to-oscillate 4:1 rectangular cylinder: Effects of the grid resolution.

Removal of masking effect for damage detection of structures (2019)
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Damage detection of civil engineering structures relies heavily on the use of outlier analysis/novelty detection analysis. Generally, data captured from a structure in its normal environmental condition are used to create a model and compute control... Read More about Removal of masking effect for damage detection of structures.

Design and implementation of a new system for large bridge monitoring—GeoSHM (2018)
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Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a relatively new branch of civil engineering that focuses on assessing the health status of infrastructure, such as long-span bridges. Using a broad range of in-situ monitoring instruments, the purpose of the SHM... Read More about Design and implementation of a new system for large bridge monitoring—GeoSHM.

Vortex-induced vibration of a 5:1 rectangular cylinder: A comparison of wind tunnel sectional model tests and computational simulations (2018)
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Considered to be representative of a generic bridge deck geometry and characterised by a highly unsteady flow field, the 5:1 rectangular cylinder has been the main case study in a number of studies including the “Benchmark on the Aerodynamics of a R... Read More about Vortex-induced vibration of a 5:1 rectangular cylinder: A comparison of wind tunnel sectional model tests and computational simulations.

Modelling and parametric study of the re-anchorage of ruptured tendons in bonded post-tensioned concrete (2017)
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The contribution of ruptured tendons to the residual strength of bonded post-tensioned concrete structures is currently assessed based on pre-tensioned concrete bond models. However, this approach is inaccurate due to the inherent differences between... Read More about Modelling and parametric study of the re-anchorage of ruptured tendons in bonded post-tensioned concrete.

Windborne debris in the urban environment (2015)
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This paper presents a comprehensive review of the research into using Windborne debris. It Introduces the components of the typical debris risk model - wind field model, debris generation model, debris trajectory model and debris impact model - and r... Read More about Windborne debris in the urban environment.

Influence of preload and nonlinearity of railpads on vibration of railway tracks under stationary and moving harmonic loads (2015)
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In railway track dynamics, the stiffness and damping properties of railpads have a significant effect on track vibration, decay rates as well forces transmitted to the track supporting structure. Many studies have shown that railpads exhibit pronounc... Read More about Influence of preload and nonlinearity of railpads on vibration of railway tracks under stationary and moving harmonic loads.

Experimental investigation on the dynamic response of RC flat slabs after a sudden column loss (2015)
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To prevent disproportionate collapse under an extreme loading event, a sudden column loss scenario is often used to ensure the structure has suitable robustness. This study aims to investigate experimentally the dynamic response of reinforced concret... Read More about Experimental investigation on the dynamic response of RC flat slabs after a sudden column loss.

On the applicability of 2D URANS and SST k-? turbulence model to the fluid-structure interaction of rectangular cylinders (2015)
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In this work the practical applicability of a 2D URANS approach adopting a block structured mesh and Menter's SST k-? turbulence model in fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems is studied using as a test case a ratio B/H = 4 rectangular cylinder.... Read More about On the applicability of 2D URANS and SST k-? turbulence model to the fluid-structure interaction of rectangular cylinders.

Modelling the prestress transfer in pre-tensioned concrete elements (2015)
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Three models were developed to simulate the transfer of prestress force from steel to concrete in pre-tensioned concrete elements. The first is an analytical model based on the thick-walled cylinder theory and considers linear material properties for... Read More about Modelling the prestress transfer in pre-tensioned concrete elements.