Cylindrical steel tanks are important components of many industrial plants such as oil refineries and chemical plants. Usually failure of cylindrical tanks leads to serious consequences. During the past earthquakes such as 1964 Alaska and 1999 Turkey seismic performance of cylindrical tanks revealed that tanks are seismically vulnerable. Therefore, evaluation of seismic performance of these str...

Acoustic emission method has a major application in the detection of the oil storage tank damage. Therefore, classification of acoustic emission signals has great significance. A classification method based on support vector machines is proposed for its good generalization performance and less training data. Based on cross validation method, the genetic algorithm is compared with the grid searc...