New challenges result from the virtualization and distribution of product development activities. This article analyzes problems of cooperative engineering as well as methods and tools for the virtual engineering of extended products. Based on these analyses, a broad road map is proposed that articulates publicand civil-sector roles in coping with future engineering challenges. With a strategic...

Civil and Environmental Engineering) Control of Vibratory Energy Harvesters in the Presence of Nonlinearities and Power-Flow Constraints by Ian L. Cassidy Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Duke University

In the recent years, much attention has been paid to the research and development of structural control techniques with particular emphasis on alleviation of wind and seismic responses of buildings and bridges in China. Structural control in civil engineering has been developed from the concept into a workable technology and applied into practical engineering structures. The aim of this paper i...

Pedro LOPES, Ph.DCandidate (Corresponding author) 3 Department of Civil Engineering & MARE Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, 4 University of Coimbra, [email protected] 5 Jorge LEANDRO, Ph.D 6 Department of Civil Engineering & MARE Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, 7 University of Coimbra, [email protected] 8 Rita F. CARVALHO, Ph.D 9 Department of Civil ...

In the first part of this paper, an analysis of the data collected during the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) Road Test, based on probabilistic duration modeling techniques, is presented. Duration techniques enable the stochastic nature of pavement failure time to be evaluated as well as censored data to be incorporated in the statistical estimation of the model paramete...