1Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 3Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 4Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Tat.Fu@...

The application of Genetic programming to civil engineering design problems is relatively new. This paper both describes and demonstrates how by using a suitable form of representation based on graph networks, GP can be applied to structural design problems to produce solutions that offer significant improvements over traditional GA based methods. The paper concludes by presenting the direction...

Mary McCormick is a graduate student at Tufts University. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in education, focusing on mathematics, science, technology, and engineering education. She received a B.S. from University of Massachusetts, Lowell, in civil engineering, and an M.S. from Tufts University in civil engineering. Her current research involves seeing the engineering thinking and doing in chi...

Jan-Ulrich Kreft, Caroline M. Plugge, Volker Grimm, Clara Prats, Johan H. J. Leveau, Thomas Banitz, Stephen Baines, James Clark, Alexandra Ros, Isaac Klapper, Chris J. Topping, Anthony J. Field, Andrew Schuler, Elena Litchman, and Ferdi L. Hellweger Centre for Systems Biology, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom; Laboratory of Microbiol...

Magnesium alloys exhibit complex deformation related mechanical behavior, viz. plastic anisotropy, tension-compression asymmetry and premature failure. Their origins are in the underlying heterogeneous deformation due to dislocation slip and deformation twinning on different crystallographic systems. The twin formations lead to microstructure evolution, strain localization and initiation of sho...

A new project-based teaching method emphasizing laboratory experimentation is being used at Lawrence Technological University. It has excited and energized the students about civil engineering applications. Engineering concepts are introduced early in the students’ academic careers using civil engineering materials. Laboratory activities related to a Civil Engineering Materials course are being...

a State Key Laboratory ofWater Resources andHydropower Engineering Science, Key Laboratory of RockMechanics inHydraulic Structural Engineering,Ministry of Education,WuhanUniversity, 8 Donghu South Road, Wuhan 430072, PR China b School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, PR China c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Universit...

Anna E. Craig, John O. Dabiri, and Jeffrey R. Koseff Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94035, USA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94035, USA and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94035, USA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sta...

We combine Bayesian networks (BNs) and structural reliability methods (SRMs) to create a new computational framework, termed enhanced Bayesian network (eBN), for reliability and risk analysis of engineering structures and infrastructure. BNs are efficient in representing and evaluating complex probabilistic dependence structures, as present in infrastructure and structural systems, and they fac...

H. RAHAMI, A. KAVEH, M. ARDALAN ASL AND S.R. MIRGHADERI School of Engineering Science, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, I. R. of Iran Centre of Excellence for Fundamental Studies in Structural Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Narmak, Tehran, I. R. of Iran Email: [email protected] 3, School of Civil Engineering, College of Engin...