Validation of (not‐historical) large‐event near‐fault ground‐motion simulations for use in civil engineering applications

Quality assessment of coupled civil engineering applications

The software scenery in civil engineering is characterized by a large number of more or less specialized software applications for different tasks. To solve the tasks efficiently, each software application has its own appropriate and optimized data structure. The variety of software tools used to support the design process leads to an exchange of data and information between the involved engine...

Sensing Applications for Plastic Optical Fibres in Civil Engineering

Terrestrial Laser Scanning – Civil Engineering Applications

Three dimensional terrestrial laser scanning has already proved its potential in several application fields, such as topography, archaeology, mining and cultural heritage protection. Beside these areas a new demand emerged: accurate point cloud acquisition and post-processed results in engineering survey. This technology could broaden the field of engineering survey, although the limited accura...

Web Services in Civil and Structural Engineering Simulations

Civil and structural engineering have had a long and successful history in adopting computing technologies, from computer graphics, CAD, finite element analysis to virtual simulations. As computer hardware and software technologies continue to advance, demands for functionalities of engineering software have also grown. Computer programs have become ever more sophisticated and complex. The desi...

PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT ANT-BASED ALGORITHMS FOR OPTIMIZATION OF MIXED VARIABLE DOMAIN IN CIVIL ENGINEERING DESIGNS

Ant colony optimization algorithms (ACOs) have been basically introduced to discrete variable problems and applied to different research domains in several engineering fields. Meanwhile, abundant studies have been already involved to adapt different ant models to continuous search spaces. Assessments indicate competitive performance of ACOs on discrete or continuous domains. Therefore, as poten...