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Accelerating reliability analysis of deteriorated simply supported concrete beam with a newly developed approach: MCS, FORM and ANN (2024)
Journal Article
Al-Mosawe, D., Neves, L., & Owen, J. (2024). Accelerating reliability analysis of deteriorated simply supported concrete beam with a newly developed approach: MCS, FORM and ANN. Structures, 60, Article 105962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2024.105962

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)
Journal Article
Mohammadi, M., Calautit, J. K., Owen, J. S., Gromke, C., Wu, Y., & Liu, H. (2023). Inter-room pollutant transmission routes in naturally ventilated street canyon buildings. Journal of Building Engineering, 79, Article 107510. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2023.107510

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)
Journal Article
Al-Mosawe, D., Neves, L., & Owen, J. (2022). Reliability analysis of deteriorated post-tensioned concrete bridges: The case study of Ynys-y-Gwas bridge in UK. Structures, 41, 242-259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2022.04.094

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)
Journal Article
Halls, J. G., Tomás, C., Owen, J. S., & Hawwash, K. (2022). Mapping out the landscape of literature on assessment in engineering education. European Journal of Engineering Education, 47(3), 373-393. https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2021.2009775

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)
Journal Article
Nguyen, C. H., Nguyen, D. T., Owen, J. S., & Hargreaves, D. M. (2022). Wind tunnel measurements of the aerodynamic characteristics of a 3:2 rectangular cylinder including non-Gaussian and non-stationary features. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 220, Article 104826. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2021.104826

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)
Journal Article
Owen, J. S., Neves, L. C., Hargreaves, D. M., Franke, J., & Nguyen, C. H. (2021). Typhoon track simulations in the North West Pacific: Informing a new wind map for Vietnam. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 208, Article 104441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2020.104441

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)
Journal Article
Soo Lon Wah, W., Chen, Y. T., & Owen, J. S. (2021). A regression-based damage detection method for structures subjected to changing environmental and operational conditions. Engineering Structures, 228, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2020.111462

© 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.

Application of GeoSHM System in Monitoring Extreme Wind Events at the Forth Road Bridge (2019)
Journal Article
Meng, X., Nguyen, D. T., Owen, J. S., Xie, Y., Psimoulis, P., & Ye, G. (2019). Application of GeoSHM System in Monitoring Extreme Wind Events at the Forth Road Bridge. Remote Sensing, 11(23), https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11232799

© 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.

Removal of masking effect for damage detection of structures (2019)
Journal Article
Wah, W. S. L., Owen, J. S., Chen, Y., Elamin, A., & Roberts, G. W. (2019). Removal of masking effect for damage detection of structures. Engineering Structures, 183, 646-661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2019.01.005

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.

Vortex-induced vibration of a 5:1 rectangular cylinder: A comparison of wind tunnel sectional model tests and computational simulations (2018)
Journal Article
Nguyen, D. T., Hargreaves, D. M., & Owen, J. S. (2018). Vortex-induced vibration of a 5:1 rectangular cylinder: A comparison of wind tunnel sectional model tests and computational simulations. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 175, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2018.01.029

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.

Wind tunnel studies of pressure distribution around a 5:1 rectangular cylinder (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Nguyen, D. T., Owen, J., & Hargreaves, D. (2016). Wind tunnel studies of pressure distribution around a 5:1 rectangular cylinder.

In this paper, a wind tunnel study is described focusing on analysing the pressure distribution and correlation around both static and dynamic 5:1 rectangular cylinders in smooth and turbulent flow. Results from the static tests highlighted the signi... Read More about Wind tunnel studies of pressure distribution around a 5:1 rectangular cylinder.

Computational studies on pressure distribution around a bending 5:1 rectangular cylinder (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Nguyen, D. T., Hargreaves, D., & Owen, J. (2016). Computational studies on pressure distribution around a bending 5:1 rectangular cylinder.

This paper describes the development and testing of a numerical model, based around the Large Eddy Simulation model, of a flexible 5:1 rectangular cylinder. We report on the vortex-induced vibration (VIV) of the bending cylinder, which is an analogue... Read More about Computational studies on pressure distribution around a bending 5:1 rectangular cylinder.

Computational studies of pressure distribution around a 5:1 rectangular section in turbulent flow (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Nguyen, D. T., Hargreaves, D., & Owen, J. (2015). Computational studies of pressure distribution around a 5:1 rectangular section in turbulent flow.

This paper presents a numerical method based on a LES approach to modelling the unsteady flow around and the vortex-induced vibration (VIV) of a 5:1 rectangular cylinder in the smooth and turbulent flow. A fluid-structure interaction algorithm was al... Read More about Computational studies of pressure distribution around a 5:1 rectangular section in turbulent flow.

Experimental investigation on the dynamic response of RC flat slabs after a sudden column loss (2015)
Journal Article
Russell, J., Owen, J., & Hajirasouliha, I. (2015). Experimental investigation on the dynamic response of RC flat slabs after a sudden column loss. Engineering Structures, 99, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2015.04.040

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)
Journal Article
Nieto, F., Hargreaves, D., Owen, J. S., & Hernández, S. (in press). On the applicability of 2D URANS and SST k-ω turbulence model to the fluid-structure interaction of rectangular cylinders. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/19942060.2015.1004817

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)
Journal Article
Abdelatif, A. O., Owen, J. S., & Hussein, M. F. (2015). Modelling the prestress transfer in pre-tensioned concrete elements. Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.finel.2014.09.007

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.

Modelling the degradation of vibration characteristics of reinforced concrete beams due to flexural damage (2014)
Journal Article
Hamad, W., Owen, J., & Hussein, M. (2015). Modelling the degradation of vibration characteristics of reinforced concrete beams due to flexural damage. Structural Control and Health Monitoring, 22(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/stc.1726

This paper presents an improved crack model incorporating non-linearity of flexural damage in concrete to reproduce changes in vibration properties of cracked reinforced concrete beams. A reinforced concrete beam model with multiple-distributed flexu... Read More about Modelling the degradation of vibration characteristics of reinforced concrete beams due to flexural damage.

Experimental identification of the lateral human–structure interaction mechanism and assessment of the inverted-pendulum biomechanical model (2014)
Journal Article
Carroll, S. P., Owen, J. S., & Hussein, M. F. (2014). Experimental identification of the lateral human–structure interaction mechanism and assessment of the inverted-pendulum biomechanical model. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 333(22), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2014.06.022

Within the context of crowd-induced lateral bridge vibration, human–structure interaction (HSI) is a widely studied phenomenon. Central to this study is the self-excited component of the ground reaction force (GRF). This force harmonic, induced by a... Read More about Experimental identification of the lateral human–structure interaction mechanism and assessment of the inverted-pendulum biomechanical model.

The computational fluid dynamics modelling of the autorotation of square, flat plates (2014)
Journal Article
Hargreaves, D., Kakimpa, B., & Owen, J. S. (2014). The computational fluid dynamics modelling of the autorotation of square, flat plates. Journal of Fluids and Structures, 46, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2013.12.006

This paper examines the use of a coupled Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) – Rigid Body Dynamics (RBD) model to study the fixed-axis autorotation of a square flat plate. The calibration of the model against existing wind tunnel data is described. Du... Read More about The computational fluid dynamics modelling of the autorotation of square, flat plates.