All Outputs (7)

Reliability assessment of shallow foundations on undrained soils considering soil spatial variability (2019)
Journal Article
Simões, J., Neves, L. C., Antão, A. N., & Guerra, N. M. (2020). Reliability assessment of shallow foundations on undrained soils considering soil spatial variability. Computers and Geotechnics, 119, Article 103369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2019.103369

Structural design using partial safety factors aims at achieving an homogeneous safety level in geotechnical design without the use of more complex reliability analysis. In this work, the different Design Approaches proposed by Eurocode 7 for shallow... Read More about Reliability assessment of shallow foundations on undrained soils considering soil spatial variability.

Partial safety factors for prestressed concrete girders strengthened with CFRP laminates (2019)
Journal Article
Dias-da-Costa, D., Neves, L. A. C., Gomes, S., Graça-e-Costa, R., Hadigheh, S. A., & Fernandes, P. (2020). Partial safety factors for prestressed concrete girders strengthened with CFRP laminates. Journal of Composites for Construction, 24(1), Article 04019060. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29CC.1943-5614.0000993

This paper provides a framework for the calibration of partial safety factors in prestressed concrete (PC) girders strengthened in flexure with carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) laminates. A hybrid approach was proposed to take advantage of comp... Read More about Partial safety factors for prestressed concrete girders strengthened with CFRP laminates.

Fragility Assessment of Pre-Northridge Steel Moment Frames using Finite-Length Plastic Hinge Elements and Concentrated Plasticity Fracture Elements (2019)
Journal Article
Ribeiro, F. L., Barbosa, A. R., & Neves, L. C. (2019). Fragility Assessment of Pre-Northridge Steel Moment Frames using Finite-Length Plastic Hinge Elements and Concentrated Plasticity Fracture Elements. Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 120(3), 657-676. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2019.06296

Although pre-Northridge earthquake steel moment resisting frame buildings have been shown to be susceptible to brittle connection failures, they still represent a large fraction of the existing steel buildings in the United States o... Read More about Fragility Assessment of Pre-Northridge Steel Moment Frames using Finite-Length Plastic Hinge Elements and Concentrated Plasticity Fracture Elements.

Stochastic maintenance models for ceramic claddings (2019)
Journal Article
Ferreira, C., Neves, L. C., Silva, A., & de Brito, J. (2020). Stochastic maintenance models for ceramic claddings. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 62(2), 247-265. https://doi.org/10.1080/15732479.2019.1652657

Maintenance decision-making involves a series of multiple objectives, some of them contradictory. Usually, stakeholders intend to find the optimal maintenance strategy, to minimize the economic burden, while simultaneously maximizing the buildings’ p... Read More about Stochastic maintenance models for ceramic claddings.

Resilience indicators for road networks: the role of robustness and rapidity (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sohouenou, P. Y., Neves, L. A., & Presti, D. L. (2019, July). Resilience indicators for road networks: the role of robustness and rapidity. Presented at International Conference on Smart Cities, Seoul, South Korea

With the increased complexity of urban systems, the need to protect the services of smart cities from disruptions by increasing their resilience to adverse events is more critical than ever before. The present paper aims at clarifying the meaning of... Read More about Resilience indicators for road networks: the role of robustness and rapidity.

Time-dependent reliability analyses of prestressed concrete girders strengthened with CFRP laminates (2019)
Journal Article
Fernandes, P., Dias-da-Costa, D., Hadigheh, S., Neves, L., & Gomes, S. (2019). Time-dependent reliability analyses of prestressed concrete girders strengthened with CFRP laminates. Engineering Structures, 196, 109297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2019.109297

This paper presents a time-dependent reliability analysis of prestressed concrete girders subjected to degradation caused by pitting corrosion. The procedure presented includes the effects of both spatial and temporal pitting corrosions on prestressi... Read More about Time-dependent reliability analyses of prestressed concrete girders strengthened with CFRP laminates.

Probabilistic prediction of asphalt pavement performance (2019)
Journal Article
Abed, A., Thom, N., & Neves, L. (2019). Probabilistic prediction of asphalt pavement performance. Road Materials and Pavement Design, 20( Sup 1), S247-S264. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680629.2019.1593229

Variability of pavement design parameters has always been a concern to pavement designers and highway agencies. A robust pavement design should take into account the variability of the design inputs and its impact on the reliability of the design. In... Read More about Probabilistic prediction of asphalt pavement performance.