The increasing use of technologies based on Internet of Things in cars and other transportation vehicles, as well as innovations in tracking systems and spatial information systems, have created the opportunity to collect ...

In order to estimate the seismic performance of structures, performing incremental dynamic analysis, and obtaining fragility curves are essential. Since producing these curves is time-consuming due to performing a large ...

This paper aims to propose a framework by which decision-makers can evaluate and compare alternatives for sustainable island-based tourism development. The uncertainties and risks involved in information and judgment within ...

In recent years, the studies have been focused on using the surface wave methods in determining the soil specifications. The surface layer of the soil with lateral variation was modeled at different angles in finite element ...

Nowadays, the benefits of continuous welded rails and engineers' tendency toward such types of tracks have increased the importance of railways' lateral stability. For increasing railways' stability, lateral resistance ...

Sheet piles are of general water retaining structures. The discharge flow rate beneath sheet plies is an important parameter in the design of these structures. In this study, the Gene Expression Programming (GEP) as an ...

The main structural elements of reinforced concrete (RC) bridges deteriorate with time under such uncertain hazards as scouring and corrosive conditions. In this paper, a multi-hazard framework is proposed to assess the ...

Modal parameters of large civil engineering structures such as modal damping ratios (MDRs) are determined mainly by output-only modal identification. In this paper, MDRs of a double layer grid were obtained using output-only ...

Despite appropriate design of beams under bending and shear, the deflection of long steel beams usually exceeds the allowable range, and therefore the structural designers encounter challenges in this regard. Considering ...

The worker's absence considerably affects the performance of the labor-intensive construction projects. Identifying the worker's absence pattern assists construction project managers in preparing the proper project ...

Estimation of bridge backwater has been one of practical challenges in hydraulic engineering for decades. In this study, Genetic Programming (GP) has been applied for estimating bridge backwater for the first time based ...