Application of observability techniques to structural system identification including shear effects 

    Emadi, Seyyedbehrad (Date of defense: 2020-12-11)

    According to Timoshenko’s beam theory, nodal rotations in beam-like structures are produced by bending and shear effects. On the one hand, bending rotations can be easily calculated by the Euler-Bernoulli stiffness matrix ...

    Characterization and modelling of previous concrete 

    Pieralisi, Ricardo (Date of defense: 2016-04-13)

    Pervious concrete is a special material with high permeability usually obtained by reducing the amount of fine aggregates in the composition of concrete. The properties of pervious concrete not only depend on its composition ...

    Estudio experimental del comportamiento de paredes de obra de fábrica de ladrillo ante la acción de cargas laterales 

    Charry Ablanque, Javier Alberto (Date of defense: 2010-02-19)

    Las construcciones de estructura portante a base de paredes de carga de obra de fábrica de ladrillo o piedra reciben una atención investigadora creciente debido a su importancia como parte del parque edificado existente. ...

    Static structural system identification using observability method 

    Lei, Jun (Date of defense: 2018-08-14)

    During the construction and operation stages of structures, various factors lead to irreversible degradation that could affect the normal use and the public safety of these structures. In recent years, it has been common ...

    Structural system identification by dynamic observability technique 

    Peng, Tian (Date of defense: 2021-05-21)

    Structure system identification (SSI) can be classified as static and dynamic depending on the type of excitation. SSI by Observability Method (OM) using static tests was proposed and analyzed to address the observability ...

    A system for crack pattern detection, characterization and diagnosis in concrete structures by means of image processing and machine learning techniques 

    Sánchez Calderón, Luis Alberto (Date of defense: 2018-01-16)

    A system that attempts to find cracks in a RGB picture of a concrete beam, measure the cracks angles and widths; and classify crack patterns in 3 pathologies has been designed and implemented in the MATLAB programming ...

    Tracking localized cracks in the computational analysis of masonry structures 

    Saloustros, Savvas (Date of defense: 2017-11-29)

    Numerical methods aid significantly the engineering efforts towards the conservation of existing masonry structures and the design of new ones. Among them, macro-mechanical finite element methods based on the smeared crack ...