Structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques have been studied for several years. An effective approach for SHM is to choose the parameters that are sensitive to the damage occurring in the structure but not sensitive to operational or environmental damages. This paper deals with a comparative study among the different vibration-based damage detection methods: fundamental modal examination, local diagnostic method, non-probabilistic methodology and the time series method. All these strategies contemplate different parameters of a structure to recognize damage. Out of the study made, time series analysis proves to more successfully in damage identification than the rest of the methods.

Vibration-based damage detection techniques used for health monitoring of structures: a review

Research and practice on progressive collapse and robustness of building structures in the 21st century

Performance-based seismic design of self-centering steel frames with SMA-based braces

Review on the new development of vibration-based damage identification for civil engineering structures: 2010-2019

Influence of the concrete DIF model on the numerical predictions of RC wall responses to blast loadings

Many highway bridges were severely damaged or completely collapsed during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. A field investigation was carried out in the strongly affected areas and over 320 bridges were examined. Damage to some representative highway bridges is briefly described and a preliminary analysis of the probable causes of the damage is presented in this paper. The most common damage included shear-flexural failure of the pier columns, expansion joint failure, shear key failure, and girder sliding in the transversal or longitudinal directions due to weak connections between girder and bearings. Lessons learned from this earthquake are described and recommendations related to the design of curved and skewed bridges, design of bearings and devices to prevent girder collapse, and ductility of bridge piers are presented. Suggestions for future seismic design and retrofitting techniques for bridges in moderate to severe earthquake areas are also proposed.

Seismic damage of highway bridges during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

A new method for progressive collapse analysis of RC frames under blast loading

Static and dynamic mechanical properties of expanded polystyrene

Cyclic behavior and failure mechanism of self‐centering energy dissipation braces with pre‐pressed combination disc springs

Development and experimental verification of a pre-pressed spring self-centering energy dissipation brace

Zhong-Xian Li

Papers

Seismic damage of highway bridges during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

A new method for progressive collapse analysis of RC frames under blast loading

Static and dynamic mechanical properties of expanded polystyrene

Cyclic behavior and failure mechanism of self‐centering energy dissipation braces with pre‐pressed combination disc springs

Development and experimental verification of a pre-pressed spring self-centering energy dissipation brace