Piles and diaphragm wall supported berthing structure on marine soils are loaded laterally from horizontal soil movements generated by dredging. The literature on the adequacy of the finite element method modeling of berthing structure to analyse their behaviour during dredging and under earthquake condition is limited. This paper describes the finite element approach for analysing the lateral ...

Vibration-based structural damage detection (SDD) has been a subject of intense research in health monitoring (SHM) for large civil engineering structures over the decades. The performance conventional SDD approaches predominantly relies on rational choices feature and classifier. Hand-crafted features or fixed classifiers would not be optimal choice all damaged scenarios. This paper proposes n...

ABSTRACT: The problem of lateral load induced on piles under earthquake has been plaguing professional engineers, geo-technical investigators and researchers alike for quite some time. The normal practice is to ensure that the fixed base shear of column does not exceed the static shear load capacity of piles. The inertial and stiffness effect of pile is usually ignored in dynamic earthquake ana...