a State Key Laboratory ofWater Resources andHydropower Engineering Science, Key Laboratory of RockMechanics inHydraulic Structural Engineering,Ministry of Education,WuhanUniversity, 8 Donghu South Road, Wuhan 430072, PR China b School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, PR China c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Universit...

Anna E. Craig, John O. Dabiri, and Jeffrey R. Koseff Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94035, USA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94035, USA and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94035, USA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sta...

During the last two decades, active and semi-active control of civil engineering structures has made rapid progress in Japan. This technology has become widely used in earthquake engineering design, and more than 50 control systems have already been applied to buildings in Japan. The 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu Earthquake opened a door to positive development of semi-actively-controlled buildings agai...

Michel BRUNEAU Director, Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research Professor, Department of Civil Engineering University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14261 [email protected] Michel Bruneau is conducting research on the seismic evaluation and retrofit of existing steel bridges, steel buildings, and masonry buildings. He has published over 200 technical publications as a result of ...

Software is playing an increasingly important role in manufacturing. Many manufacturing firms have problems with software development. Software engineering is still laborintensive and prone to errors. Industrial firms are under pressure to shorten the lead-time required in introducing new software, increase the reliability of their software, and increase their market share. Software must be des...

H. RAHAMI, A. KAVEH, M. ARDALAN ASL AND S.R. MIRGHADERI School of Engineering Science, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, I. R. of Iran Centre of Excellence for Fundamental Studies in Structural Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Narmak, Tehran, I. R. of Iran Email: [email protected] 3, School of Civil Engineering, College of Engin...

a School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Savannah, GA 31407, USA b ASR Limited, Raglan 3225, New Zealand c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA d Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chanea 73100, Greece e Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northw...

ions: Forms of precipitation, data analysis, rain gauge networks; Infiltration process, infiltration indices and Horton's equation; Evaporation and Evapo-transpiration Pan evaporation, empirical equations for estimating evaporation and evapo-transpiration; Transpiration, Runoff and Hydrographs: Rainfall runoff relations, time area concept, flow duration curve, mass curve, flow hydrograph, Unit ...

This paper describes the application of AI techniques to the problem of designing civil engineering objects like highways or roads. These design processes must cope with a complex environment, and constraints and alternatives are not predefined, but chosen during the process of designing. Several abstract models of design are presented and their applicability to road design is discussed. Finall...

Alonzo C. Addison serves as Director of the Center for Design Visualization, University of California, Berkeley. A co-founder of the Virtual Heritage Network, his work ranges from historical visualization to design simulation, information architecture, and collaborative networks. Currently completing a doctorate in design theory from Berkeley, he also holds an MA in architecture from the univer...