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Intelligent Computational Paradigms in Earthquake Engineering
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

Intelligent Computational Paradigms in Earthquake Engineering

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-01-01
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

"This book contains contributions that cover a wide spectrum of very important real-world engineering problems, and explores the implementation of neural networks for the representation of structural responses in earthquake engineering. It assesses the efficiency of seismic design procedures and describes the latest findings in intelligent optimal control systems and their applications in structural engineering"--Provided by publisher.

Structural Design Optimization Considering Uncertainties
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 656

Structural Design Optimization Considering Uncertainties

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-02-07
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

Uncertainties play a dominant role in the design and optimization of structures and infrastructures. In optimum design of structural systems due to variations of the material, manufacturing variations, variations of the external loads and modelling uncertainty, the parameters of a structure, a structural system and its environment are not given, fi

Civil and Structural Engineering Computational Technology
  • Language: en

Civil and Structural Engineering Computational Technology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011
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  • Publisher: Unknown

With contributions from renowned experts in their fields, this volume compiles the lectures presented at the Thirteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing held in Chania on the island of Crete, Greece in September 2011. Backed up by state-of-the-art research, the various topics covered in these lectures include earthquake risk mitigation, railway dynamics analysis, constitutive modeling, ultimate bearing capacity, and fire loading.

Maintenance and Safety of Aging Infrastructure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 798

Maintenance and Safety of Aging Infrastructure

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-10-23
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

This book presents the latest research findings in the field of maintenance and safety of aging infrastructure. The invited contributions provide an overview of the use of advanced computational and/or experimental techniques in damage and vulnerability assessment as well as maintenance and retrofitting of aging structures and infrastructures such as buildings, bridges, lifelines and ships. Cost-efficient maintenance and management of civil infrastructure requires balanced consideration of both structural performance and the total cost accrued over the entire life-cycle considering uncertainties. In this context, major topics treated in this book include aging structures, climate adaptation,...

Soft Computing in Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Language: en

Soft Computing in Civil and Structural Engineering

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Based on lectures presented at the First International Conference on Soft Computing Technology in Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering held in Portugal, this volume presents the most recent advances in the field. With contributions by experts, this account examines topics such as soft-computing techniques in structural optimization, genetic algorithms, neural networks, uncertainty, risk analysis, and reliability and applies them to earthquake and seismic engineering, steel and composite structures, and concrete-mix design. Detailed and informative, this reference will interest both researchers and academics concerned with soft-computing techniques in all aspects of civil and structural engineering.

Intelligent Computational Paradigms in Earthquake Engineering
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 463

Intelligent Computational Paradigms in Earthquake Engineering

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-01-01
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

"This book contains contributions that cover a wide spectrum of very important real-world engineering problems, and explores the implementation of neural networks for the representation of structural responses in earthquake engineering. It assesses the efficiency of seismic design procedures and describes the latest findings in intelligent optimal control systems and their applications in structural engineering"--Provided by publisher.

Soft Computing Methods for Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Language: en

Soft Computing Methods for Civil and Structural Engineering

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Compiling the lectures presented at the Second International Conference on Soft Computing Technology in Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering held in Chania on the island of Crete, Greece in September 2011, this volume is authored by experts in their relevant field. The variety of topics covered include neural network approaches, structural health monitoring, neuro-fuzzy control of smart structures, cellular automata simulation, reliability-based maintenance optimization, and modelling life-cycle performance.

Computational Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 670

Computational Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-12-04
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

The increasing necessity to solve complex problems in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering requires the development of new ideas, innovative methods and numerical tools for providing accurate numerical solutions in affordable computing times. This book presents the latest scientific developments in Computational Dynamics, Stochastic Dynam