Reliability analysis and design optimization of structures have been gaining a significant
amount of attention in recent decades. Most of the current studies are based on linear …

In this paper, the mean-centered first-order second-moment (FOSM) method is employed to
perform probabilistic push-over analysis (POA) of structural and/or soil-structure systems …

The redundancy characteristics of a mid-rise CFS composite shear wall building are
investigated in this paper taking the basis of the response-based sensitivity methodology …

Engineered cementitious composite (ECC) material, which is characterized by satisfactory
resilience, moderate energy dissipation capacity as well as superhigh compressive and …

Sensitivity analysis is a crucial step in computational mechanics and earthquake
engineering. Sensitivity analysis of a model (either numerical or physical) aims at …

Additive manufacturing (AM) allows for the inclusion of complicated geometric features that
are impractical or impossible to manufacture by other means. Among such features is the …

The finite-element (FE) method is widely recognized as a powerful tool in modeling
structural and geotechnical systems and simulating their response to static and dynamic …

A new density field representation technique called the Bézier skeleton explicit density
(BSED) representation scheme for topology optimization of stretchable metamaterials under …

Metal wind turbine support towers are very tall and slender shell structures designed to
exhibit a stepwise varying distribution of optimised wall thicknesses, with strakes in the …

Abstract System identification methods are widely developed in structural health monitoring,
in which the force or structural damage is identified from a linearised structure. However, the …