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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards a Vulnerability Assessment of Historic Timber Barns in the U.S. Midwest Under Severe Windstorms
Many characteristics mark U.S. timber barns as built cultural heritage: they provide use-value and identity-value to owners and communities; they are physical records of the history of individual farms, U.S. f...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Predicting Neurological Effects Associated with Traumatic Brain Injuries Using Video Analysis and Finite Element Modeling
The topic of concussion has become controversial due to the recent discoveries of long-term neurodegenerative diseases in former football players related to concussions they sustained earlier in life. In order...
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Article
Special issue on Distributed and quasi-distributed monitoring of civil infrastructure systems
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Article
A hybrid approach for prediction of long-term behavior of concrete structures
Concrete displays long-term time-dependent behavior due to its rheological properties. The prediction of long-term behavior of concrete is difficult, even under laboratory conditions, due to the stochastic nat...
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Chapter
Unsupervised Data-Driven Methods for Damage Identification in Discontinuous Media
Before investing in long-term monitoring or reinforcement of structures, it is essential to understand underlying damage mechanisms and consequences for structural stability. Approaches combining nondestructiv...
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Article
Detecting, localizing, and quantifying damage using two-dimensional sensing sheet: lab test and field application
Damage to structures in the form of cracks could reduce safety and induce high maintenance cost. Structural health monitoring (SHM) is increasingly employed to detect damage in the structure and inform the sta...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Field Evaluation of Sensing Sheet Prototype Exposed to Cracking
Reliable crack detection and characterization is challenging. Sparsely spaced discrete strain sensors are insensitive to cracks if placed at even modest distances from damage. Improving spatial density of sens...
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Open AccessQuantifying the Differences in Documentation and Modeling Levels for Building Pathology and Diagnostics
Building pathology and diagnostics enable a practitioner to quantify the severity of damage to an existing structure as well as prioritize interventive and preventive measures. Two key aspects of building path...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Numerical Modeling of Crack Propagation in Masonry Structures
Before implementing permanent monitoring systems or reinforcements on a historic structure with identified cracks, it is imperative to understand how cracking patterns may have originated and how they affect t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Understanding the Function of Roman Bonding Courses: A Numerical Approach
Bonding courses, also called leveling courses, are a universal feature of Roman architecture. This re...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reconsidering the Vaulted Forms of Cuba’s National School of Ballet
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Article
The neutral axis location for structural health monitoring: an overview
Structural health monitoring (SHM) is the process of continuously or periodically measuring structural parameters over time and the transformation of the acquired data into information about the actual struct...
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Long-term monitoring of high-rise buildings connected by link bridges
Structural health monitoring has potential to become a central tool to be used in the field of civil engineering. A proper monitoring strategy allows one to assess long-term structural behavior, schedule maint...
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Evaluation of a large-scale bridge strain, temperature and crack monitoring with distributed fibre optic sensors
Many structures like bridges are ageing and the necessity to measure the uncertain parameters is relevant. Crack-related parameters can be measured with traditional techniques like crack gauges and displacemen...
