Zhang, Tao Vaccaro, Michael Jr. Zaghi, Arash E.
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Frontiers in Built Environment
The application of artificial neural network approaches has been successful in solving complex civil engineering problems, such as damage detection and structural member capacity prediction. Within the context of the present study, corrosion has become the main factor limiting the safety and load-carrying capacity of aging steel bridge girders. Cor...
Biloria, Nimish Makki, Mohammed Abdollahzadeh, Nastaran
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Frontiers in Built Environment
Building envelopes invariably tend to be static systems that encounter various performance limitations such as inefficient illuminance admittance, and heat and moisture transmission owing to their non-responsiveness towards environmental fluctuations. In contrast to such façade solutions, responsive façade systems with embedded sensing, actuation, ...
Bertola, Numa Reuland, Yves Brühwiler, Eugen
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Frontiers in Built Environment
Ramadan, Bassam Nassereddine, Hala Taylor, Timothy R. B. Goodrum, Paul
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Frontiers in Built Environment
For decades, labor shortage has been a consistent struggle in the construction industry. At the same time, technological innovations have played a central role in the growth and development of an increasingly diverse construction industry. Existing research indicates that technological adoption is crucial for enhancing project productivity. Despite...
Pathiraja, Milinda Tombesi, Paolo
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Frontiers in Built Environment
Persistent fiscal and political mismanagement, together with the financial pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, have driven Sri Lanka into a social and economic crisis triggering a decrease in national foreign exchange reserves, an inability to purchase vital imports, and an unprecedented rise in internal inflation rates. Within the correspondingly ...
Villa, Simone Barbosa Stevenson, Fionn Garrefa, Fernando de Bortoli, Karen Carrer Ruman Lya de Melo Carvalho, Nathalia
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Frontiers in Built Environment
This paper deals with digital POE methods focusing on their reached potential in facilitating the face-to-face experiments demanded by the project. Recognized as a set of methods and instruments applied in environments during use, Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) can help manage the project process, providing diagnoses and recommendations that feed ...
Gamil, Yaser
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Frontiers in Built Environment
Machine learning techniques have been used in different fields of concrete technology to characterize the materials based on image processing techniques, develop the concrete mix design based on historical data, and predict the behavior of fresh concrete, hardening, and hardened concrete properties based on laboratory data. The methods have been ex...
Adams, Rachel M. Evans, Candace M. Peek, Lori
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Frontiers in Built Environment
The National Science Foundation-supported CONVERGE facility was established in 2018 as the first social science-led component of the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI). Headquartered at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, CONVERGE identifies, trains, connects, and funds researchers across disci...
Perelli, Francesca Linda De Gregorio, Daniela Montanino, Andrea Olivieri, Carlo Maddaloni, Giuseppe Iannuzzo, Antonino
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Frontiers in Built Environment
The high seismic hazard of the Italian territory and the vulnerability of its historic masonry heritage require the development of fragility curves that must be increasingly reliable and robustly correlated to exposure. To date, national-scale seismic risk analyses mainly use empirical curves derived from the statistical analysis of damage induced ...
Voyiadjis, George Z. Kattan, Peter I.
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Frontiers in Built Environment
The development of the theories of undamageable materials and bimodal self-regenerating materials leads directly to four-dimensional materials. Both are types of sought after materials. The authors have established that undamageable materials are the limit of Voyiadjis-Kattan materials of order n as n approaches infinity. Similarly, the authors est...
