In this paper, we use a scale model to experimentally validate an indirect approach to bridge structural health monitoring (SHM). In contrast to a traditional direct monitoring approach with sensors placed on a bridge, the indirect approach uses instrumented vehicles to collect data about the bridge. Indirect monitoring could offer a mobile, sustainable, and economical complementary solution to...

This paper reports the findings of research examining the blast resistance of bridge piers that are designed in accordance with current knowledge and specifications to ensure ductile seismic performance. Blast testing was conducted on 1/4 scale ductile RC columns, and nonductile RC columns retrofitted with steel jacketing. The seismically designed RC and steel jacketed RC columns did not exhibi...

1 SB Ankara Atatürk Göğüs Hastalıkları ve Göğüs Cerrahisi Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, 7. Göğüs Hastalıkları Kliniği, Ankara, 2 Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Göğüs Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, Afyonkarahisar, 3 SB Atatürk Göğüs Hastalıkları ve Göğüs Cerrahisi Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Evde Bakım ve Solunum Rehabilitasyon Ünitesi, Ankara, 4 SB Ankara Atatürk Göğüs Hastalıkları...

This paper argues that the interaction between inequality and the demand patterns for goods is a potential source of persistent inequality. Income distribution, in the presence of non-homothetic preferences, affects the demand for goods and, due to differences in factor intensities across sectors, it alters the return to factors of production and the initial distribution of income. Low inequali...

The response of a structure subjected to moving load can be obtained using coupled or uncoupled methods. method is often preferred since modal superposition applicable, which implies computational efficiency and ease implementation. However, the ignores changes in dynamic features combined structural system due time-varying location load. This paper analyses extent accuracy affected by these ch...

Why do few working spoken dialogue systems make use of dialogue models in their dialogue management? We find out the causes and propose a generic dialogue model. It promises to bridge the gap between practical dialogue management and (pattern-based) dialogue model through integrating interaction patterns with the underling tasks and modeling interaction patterns via utterance groups using a hig...

With the trend of variable cross-sections for long-span bridges from truss-stiffened to quasi-streamlined, and then to multiple-box cross-section geometries, the importance of aeroelastic performance is becoming increasingly significant in wind-resistant design. This article shows that there is clearly insufficient qualitative as well as quantitative understanding of turbulence effects on bridg...