Abstracts Archive

Earthquakes are the most intensive sources of free-field vibration. The buildings are also threatened by vibrations caused by other reasons, such as the travel of trucks, passenger cars, trams, and trains, including metro trains, but also mining rockbursts, resulting from underground and open-cast e...

Climate change is expected to have an impact on wind patterns, and therefore the generation of waves. Phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), provides various realization of outputs integrated global coupled models for different centuries. Wind quality is a cornerstone for wave...

Space truss structures are a type of versatile lightweight systems that are applied in different fields such as civil and aerospace engineering. For some of these systems that were built decades ago, for example as roof structures for relatively large spans, not all proofs regarding the load-bearing...

An approach for the identification of discontinuous and nonsmooth nonlinear forces, as those generated by frictional contacts, in mechanical systems that can be approximated by a single-degree-of-freedom model is presented. To handle the sharp variations and multiple motion regimes introduced by the...

Vibration serviceability of floors due to walking loads has become an important design criterion as a result of advancements in construction technology that lead to more slender and lightweight building floors. Current design guidelines require the assessment of the vibration performance of floors b...

This paper addresses the optimal tuning and numerical performance assessment of regenerative tuned mass damper inerters (RE-TMDIs) in three different configurations with non-grounded inerters attached to cantilevered primary structures under Gaussian white noise base excitation. The studied RE-TMDI ...

Many novel approaches to structural health monitoring use machine learning techniques that require large data sets to train the system effectively. In an effort to enhance available data sets for bridges, for these approaches to become wider applicable, a population-based structural health monitorin...