Abstract Machine learning (ML) has become the most successful branch of artificial
intelligence (AI). It provides a unique opportunity to make structural engineering more …

With the informatization of the building and infrastructure industry, conventional analysis
methods are gradually proving inadequate in meeting the demands of the new era, such as …

Current methods of designing cold-formed stainless-steel tubular columns provide a series
of design formulae for columns to adapt to various grades of materials and failure modes. In …

In aged steel bridges, an area of local damage may be created in girders nearby the bearing
region due to corrosion. The existence of local corrosion damage in the plate girder end can …

Cold-formed steel channels are made with staggered courses of slots for reduced thermal
conductivity and improved energy efficiency of cold-formed steel buildings. The reduced …

Thin-walled circular cylindrical shells under axial compression are prone to buckling; the
reduction of buckling load from the theoretical estimation is considered primarily due to …

The torsional stiffness of I-beams with sinusoidal corrugated web is higher than that of flat
web beams and the accuracy of the available hand-calculation methods to determine the …

Pultruded fiber-reinforced composites (FRP) are widely used in structural engineering due to
their excellent properties along the fiber direction. Its global buckling performance has …

For slender FRP columns, predicting the global buckling critical loads is crucial in structural
design. However, there is a lack of a consensus prediction method based on specialized …

Utility of conical shells ranges from aerospace launch vehicles to atomic force microscopy.
Thin-walled conical shells are susceptible to buckling under axial compression. Due to …