Vagelis Plevris

TL;DR: In this paper, a methodology for earthquake resistant design or assessment of masonry structural systems is presented using case studies from historical masonry structures in the European area, and the applicability of the proposed method is checked via analyses of existing masonry buildings in three countries, namely Greece, Portugal and Cyprus, with different seismicity levels.

TL;DR: This work examines the performance of several DE variants, namely the standard DE, the composite DE (CODE), the adaptive DE with optional external archive (JADE), the self-adaptive DE (JDE and SADE), for handling constrained structural optimization problems associated with truss structures.

TL;DR: The use of neural networks (NNs) is proposed to approximate the failure surface of masonry materials in dimensionless form and the comparison of the derived results with experimental findings as well as analytical results demonstrates the promising potential of using NNs for the reliable and robust approximation of the masonry failure surface under biaxial stress.

TL;DR: In this article, the isotropic elastic continuum-based models are not suitable for the simulation of the real nonlinear behavior of masonry walls under applied load, and therefore, they are unsuitable for modeling masonry structures.

TL;DR: Design Optimization of Active and Passive Structural Control Systems includes Earthquake Engineering and Tuned Mass Damper research topics into a volume taking advantage of the connecting link between them, which is optimization.