ICASP14
Recent Submissions
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Structural management and Value of Information analysis accounting for sensor data quality
(2023)Structural health monitoring (SHM) can be used to assess the state of health of civil structures and infrastructures and acquire information that can support maintenance-related activities and post-disaster emergency ... -
Empirical distributions of traffic loads from one year of weigh-in-motion data
(2023)In the state-of-the-art of structural engineering the actions for design or assessment of bridges should derive from a probabilistic (i.e., frequentist) characterization of the loads. Data from weigh-in-motion (WIM) systems ... -
Bayesian Neural Networks for Probabilistic Surrogate Models ヨ Uncertainty Quantification, Propagation, and Sensitivity Analysis
(2023)Neural networks are powerful function approximators which scale to problems having large input dimensionality. Bayesian neural networks are an interesting choice for surrogate models as they (1) natively enable performing ... -
Sequential decision making in infrastructure planning under uncertain climate change predictions
(2023)Engineering decisions, as those related to infrastructure planning, face challenges due to the uncertain climate change predictions. Instead of a rigid planning scheme, an alternative is to utilize an adaptive framework, ... -
Information Avoidance in multi-agent systems
(2023)This paper introduces a framework of assessing the Value of Information (VoI) for systems managed by multiple agents. The system is composed of some binary components, each managed by one agent. Each agent can decide to ... -
Value of more accurate urban weather prediction in the day-ahead energy market
(2023)Urban heat significantly influences human comfort and leads to additional energy use for space-cooling in built environments. The building sector has a high potential for cost savings and emission reduction by improving ... -
CERCOM - Development of an analytic software tool for the evaluation of innovative infrastructure maintenance methods in the move towards circularity
(2023)Implementation of the circular economy (CE) has the potential to play a significant role in limiting global climate change whilst providing regenerative design for generations to come. To achieve climate neutrality, synergies ... -
Coastal protection strategies to minimize transportation network disruption from sea level rise
(2023)As sea levels rise, there has been an increase in research focused on the protection of shoreline infrastructure and transportation systems that may increasingly suffer from permanent capacity and accessibility reduction. ... -
Cross-Entropy-based Stationary Proposal Importance Sampling for life-cycle structural reliability and seismic risk assessment
(2023)Life-cycle reliability assessment of deteriorating systems may involve the modeling of complex stochastic processes, further propagating uncertainties and exacerbating computational efforts. This paper discusses a novel ... -
Life-Cycle Residual Performance Assessment of Concrete Bridges Considering Spatial Variability of Corrosion
(2023)A recent SEI/ASCE survey highlights that advanced life-cycle models for deteriorating structures are well established for some of the most detrimental damage processes (e.g. corrosion). However, reliability assessment ... -
Improving safety through statistical analysis of construction fatalities
(2023)The construction industry has the highest rates of fatalities, disabilities, and injuries & illnesses among all industries. While this situation has improved in some countries, for example the UK, to achieve sustained ... -
Exposure Modelling through Machine Learning for Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment
(2023)In the last decades, most efforts to catalogue and characterise the built environment for multi-hazard risk assessment have focused on the exploration of housing census data, cadastral datasets, and local surveys. The first ... -
Probability Based Pavement Asset Management
(2023)Deterministic Pavement Deterioration models are commonly used due to their relative simplicity, ease of use, and familiarity. The modelling techniques include straight-line extrapolation, S-shaped curves, polynomial ... -
A Bayesian Estimation Approach to the Post-Earthquake Recovery Trajectories of Electric Power Systems in Japan
(2023)Post-disaster recovery modelling of engineering systems has become an important facet of disaster risk management. The post-disaster recovery trajectory of a civil infrastructure system can be quantified using (a) their ... -
Implications of masonry infillヨrelated uncertainty on the optimal seismic retrofitting of existing buildings
(2023)Many research efforts have focused on developing multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) processes for selecting the optimal seismic retrofit alternative when several important decision variables (DVs) need to be considered. ... -
Structural Health Monitoring and Uncertainty Quantification in Large Steel Frame Structures
(2023)Large structural systems, under extreme natural hazard loadings, exhibit strongly nonlinear behavior that challenges commonly used diagnosis and modeling techniques. In such situations, the initial model may be quite ... -
Effectiveness of Smartphone Accelerometers for Inspection
(2023)Accelerometers are often used for inspection. With the rise of cheap accelerometers and their extensive use in smartphones there are opportunities to utilise such sensors for inspection and monitoring of our built ... -
Reliability-based topology optimization for multi-material structures
(2023)Structural optimization is a crucial aspect of engineering design, aimed at identifying the optimal configuration of a structure that meets specified constraints, such as displacement, stress, and buckling resistance, while ... -
Quantifying Uncertainties in Cargo Deck Deflections from Distributed Fiber Optic Strain Data
(2023)A variety of sensing modalities and sensor technologies are used to monitor the health, assess the condition, and quantify the life span of civil infrastructure. Among the more recent technologies utilized for health ... -
Investigating the Use of Citizen-Science Data as a Proxy for Flood Risk Assessment in New York City
(2023)New York City has an extensive waterfront and numerous low-lying neighborhoods that make it highly exposed to the impacts of extreme weather events. With global warming increasing the frequency and intensity of these events, ...