Structural Engineering Congress and Scandinavian Bridges

Structural Bridges through Fold Space

Several protein structure classification schemes exist that partition the protein universe into structural units called folds. Yet these schemes do not discuss how these units sit relative to each other in a global structure space. In this paper we construct networks that describe such global relationships between folds in the form of structural bridges. We generate these networks using four di...

Structural Fuse Concept for Bridges

The concept of designing sacrificial elements to dissipate seismic energy while preserving the integrity of the structure’s other main components is known as the structural fuse concept. Few implementations of the structural fuse concept have been rigorous in emphasizing easy and complete replaceability of the sacrificial elements and absence of damage to the primary load-resisting structural s...

Brazilian Congress structural balance analysis

In this work, we study the behavior of Brazilian politicians and political parties with the help of clustering algorithms for signed social networks. For this purpose, we extract and analyze a collection of signed networks representing voting sessions of the lower house of Brazilian National Congress. We process all available voting data for the period between 2011 and 2016, by considering voti...

World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

1. Abstract It has become apparent that as modern day large-scale systems become increasingly complex the traditional Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) Systems Engineering design philosophy is becoming problematic. The communication of preferences through requirements has resulted in arbitrarily chosen constraints and objective functions attempting to reflect the stakeholder’s desires...

Durability of structural adhesives in bridges Master Project DURABILITY OF STRUCTURAL ADHESIVES IN BRIDGES