Estimation of required seating length of bridge girders under non-uniform ground excitation and different ground conditions

Optimal Filtering Methods to Structural Damage Estimation under Ground Excitation

This paper considers the problem of shear building damage estimation subject to earthquake ground excitation using the Kalman filtering approach. The structural damage is assumed to take the form of reduced elemental stiffness. Two damage estimation algorithms are proposed: one is the multiple model approach via the optimal two-stage Kalman estimator (OTSKE), and the other is the robust two-sta...

Analysis of Concrete Bridge Girders Strengthened with Cfrp Laminates under Service and Extreme Loading Conditions

Externally bonded carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) laminates are a feasible and economical alternative to traditional methods for strengthening and stiffening deficient reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete girders as shown in Fig. (1). Although extensive research has already been undertaken to investigate the behavior of CFRP strengthened bridge girders, the majority of work condu...

Analysis of Concrete Bridge Girders Strengthened with Frp Laminates under Service and Extreme Loading Conditions

The project is a continuation from fiscal year 2004-2005. Previous work aimed at developing new analytical tools for analysis of RC beams strengthened with FRP laminates. The models were used to analyze several test specimens of RC beams and to investigate the corresponding failure mode, and whether it is due to CFRP fracture, debonding, or concrete crushing. Current work focused on using the e...

Soil genesis as affected by topography and depth of saline and sodic ground water under semiarid conditions of iran

3D Modelling of Under Ground Burried Objects Based on Ground Penetration Radar

There is a growing demand for mapping and 3D modelling of buried objects such as pipelines, agricultural hetitage, landmines and other buried objects. Usually, large scale and high resolution maps from these objects are needed. Manually map generation and modeling of these objects are cost and time consuming and is dependent on lots of resources. Therefore, automating the subsurface mapping and...