Settlement-relevant load combinations play a critical role in the serviceability design of buildings, particularly for structures on soils with time-dependent deformation behavior. While permanent loads must be fully considered, the contribution of v...
Trailers and semi-trailers for road freight operate under extreme dynamic loads that cause fatigue damage, deformation and structural failure. This review synthesises the literature on the structural optimisation of truck, trailer and semi-trailer st...
Aircraft encounter complex ground and air scenarios during service, necessitating a comprehensive analysis of extensive global load cases during the design phase to ensure structural reliability and safety. While high-fidelity finite element analysis...
Actual load identification is a most important task solved in the course of (1) engineering inspections of steel structures, (2) the design of systems rising or restoring the bearing capacity of damaged structural frames, and (3) structural health mo...
In recent years, load alleviation technologies have been more widely used in transport aircraft. For aircraft already in service, load alleviation can contribute in extending the fatigue life, or enable small configurational changes. If load alleviat...
In civil engineering, different machine learning algorithms have been adopted to process the huge amount of data continuously acquired through sensor networks and solve inverse problems. Challenging issues linked to structural health monitoring or lo...
In Korea, a precast floating track with anti-vibration isolators was recently developed to reduce the vibration and noise in urban railway stations, without disrupting train operations. This precast floating slab track is a newly developed structure...
The ongoing effects of climate change have led to a rise in global temperature, significantly reducing snow cover and resulting in the abandonment of numerous ski areas across Switzerland. As a result, many ski lifts have been decommissioned and left...
The operating state of a pump-turbine unit under no-load conditions is directly related to its safe and stable operation. In order to probe into the influence of hydraulic characteristics on structural performance, a pump-turbine assembled in China i...
Assessing ageing infrastructure is a critical challenge for civil engineers due to the difficulty in the estimation and integration of uncertainties in structural models. Field measurements are increasingly used to improve knowledge of the real behav...
The safety and longevity of engineering structures depend on precise and timely monitoring, especially during load testing inspections. Conventional displacement measurement methods—such as LVDT sensors, GNSS, RTS, and levels—each present...
Moving load and structural damage assessment has always been a crucial topic in bridge health monitoring, as it helps analyze the daily operating status of bridges and provides fundamental information for bridge safety evaluation. However, most studi...
Structural failures in the barge midship sections can cause operational delay, sinking, cargo loss and environmental damage. These failures can be generated by the barge and cargo weights, and wave load effects on the midships sections. These load ty...
Prestressed flexible support systems have become essential in deep excavation engineering, with the load distributive compression anchor (LDCA) widely adopted to enhance load-bearing performance through effective load dispersion among multiple anchor...
Various researches have been performed to find an effective confining method using FRP sheet in order to improve the structural capacity of reinforced concrete column. However, most of these researches were undertaken for the columns subjected to con...
The wind-induced response of structures is typically studied in wind tunnels either on scaled models or using numerical approaches under similar transient load conditions. In early design phases—where the potential for impactful change is most...
The duration of load (DOL) effect in structure timber refers to the degradation of strength and stiffness that occurs under long-term continuous loading. This paper investigated the DOL effect in structure timber using DOL tests and DOL damage models...
Since the well-known Millennium bridge accident happened at the beginning of this century, both researchers and engineers realized that the human-induced vibration may lead to unaffordable consequences. Although such vibrations hardly threaten the sa...
After the excavation and unloading of deep-buried soft rock tunnels, support structures often experience deformation-related disasters such as concrete cracking, steel frame bending and twisting, and primary support instability under different forms...
Several researchers have studied how impact loads from impact hazards affect reinforced concrete (RC) slabs. There is relatively little research on impact loading effects on pre-stressed structures. The usage of fibers in structural elements intrigue...
The main issues associated with cement concrete pavements are cracks and broken plates that affect driving comfort and road service life. To ensure sustainable use of the cement concrete, a buffer layer (AC-10) can be introduced between the base and...
This paper discusses the performance of a structural fuse concept developed for use as a seismic isolation system in the design and retrofit of masonry infill walls. An experimental program was developed and executed to study the behavior of the stru...
Structural topology optimization is a crucial approach for achieving lightweight design. An effective topology optimization algorithm must strike a balance between the objective functions, constraints, and design variables, which essentially reflects...
The aircraft landing gear system is vital in ensuring the aircraft’s functional completeness and operational safety. The mechanical structures of the landing gear must withstand significant operational forces, including repeated high-intensity...
Predicting structural loads on offshore wind turbine support structures under varying environmental conditions is a complex yet critical task, particularly for large-capacity turbines such as the 15 MW offshore wind turbine. Current prediction method...
This study investigates the stochastic vibration response of a laboratory steel-framed glass-deck pedestrian bridge subjected to random pedestrian loads and structural damping ratio uncertainty. A probabilistic pedestrian load model was established b...
This experimental study investigates the influence of synthetic macro-fibers added in fiber-reinforced concrete (FRC) prismatic specimens on their flexural response and overall cracking performance. Application of a novel structural health monitoring...
This study develops and experimentally characterizes a prototype sandwich panel intended for load-bearing applications, incorporating continuous corrugated date-palm leaf midrib (DPLM) mats within a polyurethane (PU) foam core between plywood facings...
This paper explores the fatigue behaviour and robustness of tiled web-core sandwich panels used in glass fibre-reinforced polymer bridges, which are increasingly favoured for their lightweight and corrosion-resistant properties. Fatigue tests are con...
A novel procedure is proposed in this paper to investigate the capacity of parking structures to resist additional live loads that could come from many cars, potentially from heavier or driverless cars. In recent decades, the typical operating weight...
Container transport is one of the most promising modes of international freight transport. Railway container transport is mainly carried out using flat cars. Container cars can be damaged under the most unfavorable operating load conditions of a 1520...
The cable-suspended PV system has gained increasing popularity due to its large span and good site adaptability. However, this structure is quite sensitive to wind actions, and wind-induced module damage and structure failure have been frequently rep...
One of the primary challenges in cable-stayed bridges is to assess the service performance of stay cables in response to applied loads and ensure that they meet safety requirements. This paper proposes a new strategy to analyze the time-varying relia...
Inflatable structures have attracted increasing attention in recent years due to their light weight, translucency, rapid assembly or disassembly, mobility, and self-cleaning performance. Meanwhile, their flexible characteristics and low-damping behav...
The flexible structure of the new type of aerial track studied in this paper is formed by strings and tracks, which have obvious dynamic characteristics under the action of vehicle moving loads and is also an important factor affecting its performanc...
The consumption of construction materials and the pollution caused by their production can be reduced by the use of reliable adaptive load-bearing structures. Adaptive load-bearing structures are able to adapt to different load cases by specifically...
One important parameter for evaluating the safety and reliability of a ship is o the dynamic ultimate load capacity of ship structures. Because of the importance of this parameter, its determination is essential. In this paper, a novel “two-ste...
Wind loads on structures are difficult to directly measure, so it is practical to identify structural wind loads based on the measurements of structural responses. However, this inversed problem is challenging compared with conventional load identifi...
In recent years, it has been demonstrated that the lightweight potential of load-carrying structural components could be further enhanced using additive manufacturing technology. However, the additive manufacturing process offers a large parameter sp...
Topology optimization has been present in modern engineering for several decades, becoming an important tool for solving design problems. Today, it is difficult to imagine progress in engineering design without the search for new approaches to the ge...
Bolted joints are widely used in timber structures, and the loosening of bolt connections will reduce the structural performance. In this paper, a mechanical model of bolt connection for timber structures is established, and the process of bolt loose...
Vertical slender hydraulic structures such as sluices, navigation locks, or storm-surge barriers are often dynamically loaded by waves. For a safe and economic design, an accurate description of the wave loads is needed. A widely used formula for thi...
Overall, this paper provides a comprehensive approach for designing structures subject to rhythmic crowd loading. By considering the randomness of the load model and structural response, the design method provides a more realistic evaluation of the s...
Welded structures under random loadings are usually susceptible to fatigue-induced failures that lead to significant economic and safety effects. However, accurately predicting these structures’ fatigue damage and life in the frequency domain r...
Wave-induced forces pose significant challenges to marine structures, especially pile groups, where cap structures and pile spacings play critical roles in load distribution and structural stability. A physical wave flume experiment was conducted to...
A strain-based load identification model for beam structures subjected to multiple loads is presented. The number of sensors for the load identification model is the same as the number of load conditions acting on a beam structure. In the model, the...
Apart from the mechanisms of ice structure interactions under various scenarios of sea ice conditions and structural configurations, the selection of probabilistic models is crucial in order to cope with the loading uncertainty. Sea ice is the primar...
The safe transport of cylindrical loads such as metal, paper, or polymer rollers requires specialized securing structures that address the complex dynamic forces encountered during rail movement. This paper presents a structured methodology for the d...
Suspension structures, known for their excellent properties, have been widely used to cover medium and large spans. Their efficiency lies in their ability to primarily withstand permanent and variable loads through tension. Consequently, suspension r...
In this study, based on the Iwan model, the connection interface of the bolted joint structure subjected to lateral loads was simulated and comparatively analyzed. Commercial finite element software was used to model the bolted joint structure. Monot...
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