Geopolymer is an environmentally friendly material that is recognized as a potential
alternative binder to ordinary Portland cement. However, accurate prediction of the …

Machine learning techniques have been used in different fields of concrete technology to
characterize the materials based on image processing techniques, develop the concrete mix …

In structural health monitoring (SHM) paradigm, operational modal analysis (OMA)
comprises several techniques and algorithms for estimating the dynamic characteristics of a …

Nowadays, optimization problems are solved through meta-heuristic algorithms based on
stochastic search approaches borrowed from mimicking natural phenomena …

In the last decades, the majority of the existing infrastructure heritage is approaching the end
of its nominal design life mainly due to aging, deterioration, and degradation phenomena …

This paper discusses the size and shape optimization of a guyed radio mast for
radiocommunications. The considered structure represents a widely industrial solution due …

Nowadays, drawing up plans to control and manage infrastructural assets has become one
of the most important challenges in most developed countries. The latter must cope with …

Structural health monitoring (SHM) is nowadays a significant and topical issue in the civil
engineering field, whose first-level task is the damage detection job. Recent advances in …

Vibration-based structural damage detection methods using optimization techniques have
increased extensively in recent decades due to the rapid development of swarm intelligence …

Concrete is a heterogeneous material, consisting of different constituents such as
aggregates of different sizes and cement paste. Due to the heterogeneity of the concrete, its …