This master thesis is written on behalf of Statnett SF, which is the system operator of the Norwegian power system. Statnett has developed a new type of foundation which requires less time to assemble and is more convenient ...

Bridge infrastructure has great economic, social, and cultural value. Nevertheless, many of the infrastructural assets are in poor conservation condition as has been recently evidenced by the collapse of several bridges ...

A collection of thirty mathematical functions that can be used for optimization purposes is presented and investigated in detail. The functions are defined in multiple dimensions, for any number of dimensions, and can be ...

The modeling and simulation of structural systems is a task that requires high precision and reliable results to ensure the stability and safety of construction projects of all kinds. For many years now, structural engineers ...

Nowadays, the design of concrete structures in Europe is governed by the application of Eurocode 2 (EC2). In particular, EC2 — Part 1-1 deals with the general rules and the rules for concrete buildings. An important ...

This study proposes the DNN-MVLEM, a novel macromodel for the non-linear analysis of RC shear walls based on deep neural networks (DNN); while most RC shear wall macromodeling techniques follow a deterministic approach to ...

Computer simulations and computational methods, such as the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) have become essential methodologies in science and engineering during the last decades, in a wide variety of academic fields. Six ...

Performance metrics (Evaluation metrics or error metrics) are crucial components of regression analysis and machine learning-based prediction models. A performance metric can be defined as a logical and mathematical construct ...

This work aims to analyze and reveal critical features of the papers published since 1990 on the topic of masonry structures under earthquake loading. In particular, detailed information for nearly three ...