The proceedings of ICASP12, the 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering held in Vancouver, Canada on July 12-15, 2015 are available online. Abstracts were peer-reviewed and authors of accepted abstracts were invited to submit full papers. Full papers were also peer reviewed and only accepted papers appear here. The editor for this collection is Professor Terje Haukaas, Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (terje@civil.ubc.ca).
MACSAN (Masonry And Concrete Section ANalysis) is software developed for PC that permits sectional analysis of both two-phase masonry and sections. It computes the factor of safety for given set of axial force and bending moments and provides a graphical representation of the neutral axis location and orientation. The software also provides an interface with the computer code CSI/ETABS for quick processing of multiple sections. The software is ideal for existing masonry buildings with a large number of piers that are rehabilitated with concrete jacketing.
The full proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Building Resilience, Incorporating the 3rd Annual Conference of the ANDROID Disaster Resilience Network has just been published in a volume of Procedia Economics and Finance, Volume 18, Pages 1-976 (2014), with full open access and indexed in Science Direct by ELSEVIER (ISSN: 2212-5671).
This volume includes selected papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Building Resilience, held in MediaCity, Salford Quays, United Kingdom from 8th – 11th September 2014. The conference was organised by: the Centre for Disaster Resilience, University of Salford, United Kingdom; the Global Disaster Resilience Centre (GDRC), University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom; and the ANDROID Disaster Resilience Network, a project of the EU Lifelong Learning Programme.
This volume has been edited by Professors Richard Haigh and Dilanthi Amaratunga from Global Disaster Resilience Centre at the University of Huddersfield UK.
Workshop Videos of all speakers of the “Dynamic Analysis, Testing and Design of Infrastructure to Environmental Loads”, organised in Thessaloniki, Greece in the framework of the Degrie Lab. You can also find all the following videos at our YouTube channel:DeGrie Lab or at the official Project Website www.degrielab.eu
The 395m long Evripos bridge in central Greece, connects the island of Evia to the mainland. An accelerometer array of 43 triaxial sensors has been monitoring both the free-field excitation and the response of the superstructure in a series of seismic events since 1994. This paper focuses on the characteristics of the spatially variable, earthquake ground motions recorded during two seismic events (1999 & 2013) and the corresponding bridge response. A model updating is performed to match the numerically predicted with the measured bridge response. Then, the nature of the recorded ground motions is studied and the incoherency patterns of the seismic waves are compared with empirical or semi-empirical models. It is observed that the loss of coherency at the site is isotropic. It is also documented, for the first time based on actual free-field and on-structure recordings, that the asynchronous excitation of a bridge excited higher modes of vibration while suppressing the oscillation on its fundamental frequency. The latter is in line with analytical predictions and is believed to be a key finding in understanding the nature of spatially variable earthquake ground motion and predicting its potential impact on the seismic response of bridges.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Bauhaus University Weimar organise a three day International Workshop on “Dynamic Analysis, Testing and Design of Infrastructure to Seismic Loads”. The Workshop will take place between 11-13 November, 2014 and is open to the engineering community. Invited Speakers and Full Program is available at: http://de-grielab.weebly.com/workshop.html
The first DemoDay of the Thessaloniki Innovation Hub, organized by the Alexander Innovation Zone will take place at the NOESIS Technological Museum on November 10th.
Evening event will be open to the public.
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