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... Sensitivity analysis Structural engineering Modelling Mechanical behaviour of materials Sensitivity analysis provides an important insight towards the understanding of the physical mechanisms underpinning the failure of engineering structures. It is also necessary for modifying the design towards...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Neural nets Optimization techniques Structural design Structural engineering The primal engineering task during the design of any structural system is to minimize its construction cost and improve its structural performance. Improvements during...

... to smooth the spectra to evaluate the indices. Cheng‐Wu Chen can be contacted at: chengwu@mail.nkmu.edu.tw © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Structural engineering Sensitivity analysis Structural theory The HHT, developed by Huang et al. (1998 , 1999), consists...

... mention: non‐local continuum (Pijaudier‐Cabot and Bažant, 1987), higher order gradient damage (Muhlhaus and Aïfantis, 1991), viscoplastic regularization (Needleman, 1988), crack‐band models (Hillerborg et al., 1976), etc. Modelling Structural engineering Structural design Failure...

... of each of the two models are summarized in Tables I and II . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Structural engineering Structural design Failure (mechanical) Present work is the follow‐up on Part I of this paper (Brancherie and Ibrahimbegovic, 2008), discussing...

... of N_m+1 internal variables, {\bf{z}}(t) and θ(t). © MCB UP Limited 1999 Earthquakes Energy dissipation Integration Structural engineering Temperature evolution Viscoelasticity Viscoelastic dampers (VED) have been successfully installed since the early...