Bayesian‐optimized unsupervised learning approach for structural damage detection

KA Eltouny, X Liang - Computer‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Structural health monitoring (SHM) is developing rapidly to fulfill the world's need for resilient
and sustainable communities. Due to the current advancements in machine learning and …

Application of fractals to evaluate fractures of rock due to mining

B Yang, Y Liu - Fractal and Fractional, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fractures caused by mining are the main form of water inrush disaster. However, the
temporal and spatial development characteristics of fractures of the rock mass due to mining …

Risk-informed digital twin of buildings and infrastructures for sustainable and resilient urban communities

U Alibrandi - ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
The digital twin (DT) is a virtual replica of real-world buildings, processes, structures, people,
and systems created and maintained to answer questions about its physical part, the …

Performance-based engineering and multi-criteria decision analysis for sustainable and resilient building design

KM Mosalam, U Alibrandi, H Lee, J Armengou - Structural Safety, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, an integrated approach for a holistic (involving notions of resiliency and
sustainability) building design is presented to select the optimal design alternative based on …

An improved maximum entropy method via fractional moments with Laplace transform for reliability analysis

G Li, W He, Y Zeng - Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2019 - Springer
The fractional moment-based maximum entropy method (FM-MEM) attracts more and more
attention in reliability analysis recently, comparing with the common integer moment-based …

Adaptive scaled unscented transformation for highly efficient structural reliability analysis by maximum entropy method

J Xu, F Kong - Structural Safety, 2019 - Elsevier
The approximation of the probability density function (PDF) of the performance function,
especially for the tail distribution, is of paramount importance in structural reliability analysis …

A non-Gaussian stochastic model from limited observations using polynomial chaos and fractional moments

R Zhang, H Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
The reasonable representation of input random fields is the key element in the reliability
analysis of practical engineering systems. In most engineering applications, the …

Efficient subset simulation for rare-event integrating point-evolution kernel density and adaptive polynomial chaos kriging

H Guo, Y Dong, P Gardoni - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2022 - Elsevier
Rare-event probability estimation has a wide range of applications, including the design and
manufacture of precision equipment, aerospace systems, and critical industrial and civil …

A mixture distribution with fractional moments for efficient seismic reliability analysis of nonlinear structures

C Dang, J Xu - Engineering Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, an efficient approach is proposed for seismic reliability analysis of nonlinear
structures with random parameters subjected to non-stationary stochastic ground motions …

A conditional extreme value distribution method for dynamic reliability analysis of stochastic structures

YY Weng, XY Zhang, ZH Lu, YG Zhao - Structural Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
An efficient post-processing simulation method is proposed to estimate small failure
probabilities of stochastic dynamic structures involving the inherent randomness of structural …