Virtual patients for mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit

C Zhou, JG Chase, J Knopp, Q Sun, M Tawhai… - Computer Methods and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Mechanical ventilation (MV) is a core intensive care unit (ICU) therapy.
Significant inter-and intra-patient variability in lung mechanics and condition makes …

Support vector machines for automated modelling of nonlinear structures using health monitoring results

C Zhou, JG Chase, GW Rodgers - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Structural health monitoring (SHM) is backwards analysis of past to current state of damage,
but cannot create a structure-specific nonlinear model for forward analysis of future …

Degradation evaluation of lateral story stiffness using HLA-based deep learning networks

C Zhou, JG Chase, GW Rodgers - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2019 - Elsevier
Hysteresis loop analysis (HLA) has proven an effective indicator of damage detection in civil
engineering structural health monitoring (SHM). In this paper, the histogram of stiffness …

Real-world application of hysteresis loop analysis for stiffness identification of an instrumented building across multiple seismic events

M Rabiepour, C Zhou, GW Rodgers… - Journal of Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
The BNZ building in Wellington, New Zealand was significantly damaged, and eventually
demolished, due to the cumulative impact of three main earthquakes between 2013 and …

Reconstructing asynchrony for mechanical ventilation using a hysteresis loop virtual patient model

C Zhou, JG Chase, Q Sun, J Knopp, MH Tawhai… - BioMedical Engineering …, 2022 - Springer
Background Patient-specific lung mechanics during mechanical ventilation (MV) can be
identified from measured waveforms of fully ventilated, sedated patients. However …

Structural performance and damage prediction using a novel digital cloning technique

M Rabiepour, C Zhou… - Structural Health …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents a novel, mechanics-based framework to create digital twins for
earthquake-affected pinched structures, like reinforced concrete framed buildings. It uses …

A new pinched nonlinear hysteretic structural model for automated creation of digital clones in structural health monitoring

C Zhou, JG Chase - Structural Health Monitoring, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Optimizing risk treatment of structures in post-event decision-making is extremely difficult
due to the lack of information on building damage/status after an event, particularly for …

[HTML][HTML] Patient-ventilator asynchrony classification in mechanically ventilated patients: Model-based or machine learning method?

CYS Ang, YS Chiew, X Wang, EH Ooi, ME Cove… - Computer Methods and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background and objective Patient-ventilator asynchrony (PVA) is associated with poor
clinical outcomes and remains under-monitored. Automated PVA detection would enable …

Damage inference and residual capacity assessment for an E-Defense 2018 ten-story RC test structure

Y Zhuang, X Ji, L Sun, K Kajiwara, JD Kang… - Engineering Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents an enhanced vision-based, post-earthquake performance assessment
framework for RC building structures. This framework incorporates a damage inference …

A spectral assessment for instant preliminary evaluation of structures after seismic events

M Rabiepour, JG Chase, C Zhou - Earthquake Spectra, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article introduces a simple, efficient spectral-based approach for rapid preliminary
seismic assessment of earthquake-affected structures. Performance is validated using data …