Recently, there is a growing interest in seismic qualification of ridges, buildings and mechanical equipment worldwide due to increase of accidents caused by earthquake. Severe earthquake can bring serious problems in the wind turbines and eventually lead to an interruption to their electric power supply. To overcome and prevent these undesirable problems, structural design optimization of a sm...

Dimensionality reduction plays an important role in many machine learning and pattern recognition tasks. In this paper, we present a novel dimensionality reduction algorithm called multilinear maximum distance embedding (MDE), which includes three key components. To preserve the local geometry and discriminant information in the embedded space, MDE utilizes a new objective function, which aims ...

This paper presents a study to statistically characterize the joint earthquake-snow hazard and subsequently develop maximum inter-story drift fragility curves for a series of archetype woodframe structures. Of particular focus are structures built in heavy-snow regions where seismic design may govern (and hence the roof snow load contributes additional seismic mass). While load standards such a...

This paper describes the results of an extensive study on the seismic behavior of a structure with damper and without damper under different earthquake acceleration frequency like Earthquake Altadena, Earthquake Lucerne and Earthquake New Hall. It is observed through nonlinear time history analysis that maximum displacement, maximum base shear and maximum acceleration can be effectively reduced...

The introduction of new technologies leads to a more and more complex interactive systems design. In order to describe the future interactive system, the human computer interaction (HCI) domain uses specific models and tools. In another way, the Model Driven Engineering (MDE) approach has been proposed in software engineering domain in order to provide techniques and tools for dealing with mode...

Complex industrial control systems, such as those used in airport baggage handling systems (BHSs), need to be designed in a way to ensure that they avoid failures. Even small failures in such systems may result in serious economic and social consequences due to delayed ights and lost bags. Consider, for example, the problems caused by failures in the BHS during the opening of a new terminal at ...

Although model-driven engineering (MDE) is now an established approach for developing complex software systems, it has not been universally adopted by the software industry. In order to better understand the reasons for this, as well as to identify future opportunities for MDE, we carried out a week-long design thinking experiment with 15 MDE experts. Participants were facilitated to identify t...

Design spectrum is known as an essential tool in earthquake engineering for calculation of maximum (design) responses in a structural system. Soil-structure interaction (SSI), as a phenomenon of coupling of responses of a structure and its underlying soil, was explored after introduction of design spectra and has not been taken into account in developing a design spectrum traditionally. To cons...

In Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) design of modelling languages and model transformations is still an expert’s task. Domain experts, i.e. the stakeholders of languages and transformations, would like to independently define and use their own MDE ecosystem, but can only support those activities. In this position paper we discuss this problem from a more general perspective, arguing for the need ...