Engineers, building officials and authorities, developers, and other stakeholders have long
recognized the significance of structural health monitoring (SHM) in civil infrastructure. With …

Strategic major infrastructure ageing requires structural health monitoring usage to avoid
critical safety issues and disasters. Machine Learning can be a valuable tool to automate the …

Historical steel bridges represent an important construction typology integrating the
constructive heritage of the past century that needs to be preserved. Exposure to fatigue …

Although truss-type bridge collapses usually have catastrophic consequences, their analysis
present opportunities for improving different aspects in the field of bridge engineering, such …

Hundreds of millions of people cross deficient bridges each day. With damage to these
structures likely to intensify because of climate change and ageing, technicians and …

Simplified mechanics-based approaches for the seismic performance analysis are used for
the risk assessment of large bridge portfolios. This study evaluates the applicability and …

The latest studies on failures in steel truss-type bridges found that they are highly vulnerable
to damage and thus prone to potential local or total collapse. Many authors recommend …

Considerable research efforts have been dedicated to understanding the resistance of
buildings against progressive collapse. However, these efforts have been relatively limited …

A sector gate is a fundamental type of lock gate. It is designed as a large cantilevered,
rotatable space truss structure capable of withstanding bidirectional hydraulic pressures and …

Many of the steel bridge collapses occur in truss-type bridges. This is, in fact, the focus of this
study involving an assessment of the robustness of this type of structures based on an actual …