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Digital Twins of Stone Masonry Buildings for Damage Assessment

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Springer2024

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Automated post-earthquake damage assessment of stone masonry buildings integrating machine learning, computer vision, and physics-based modeling

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Current post-earthquake damage assessment methodologies are not only time-consuming but also subjective in nature and difficult to document. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence and technological devices make it possible to accomplish this task a ...

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Thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of energy barrettes: Field experiments and numerical simulations

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Automated image-based generation of finite element models for masonry buildings

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lifex-ep: a robust and efficient software for cardiac electrophysiology simulations

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Geometrical Treatise on the Modelling of 3D Particulate Inclusion-Matrix Microstructures with an Application to Historical Stone Masonry Walls

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EPFL2022

A virtual microstructure generator for 3D stone masonry walls

Katrin Beyer, Mahmoud S. M. Shaqfa

Detailed micromodel simulations of stone masonry walls require as input a 3D mesh that represents a realistic arrangement of stones in the masonry wall. In this paper, we constructed the first 3D masonry microstructures to derive 2D and 3D finite or discre ...

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Deep Q-learning agent for building earthquake resisting wall

Katrin Beyer, Qianqing Wang, Ketson Roberto Maximiano Dos Santos

The construction of dry-joint brick masonry that is subject to seismic loading can be modelled as a strategy problem wherein bricks must be laid to form a load resisting structure. To learn how to mount bricks while considering relevant engineering criteri ...

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Image-based geometric digital twinning for stone masonry elements

Katrin Beyer, Bryan German Pantoja Rosero, Savvas Saloustros

We present an image-based pipeline for generating geometrical digital twins (GDTs) of stone masonry elements with detail down to the stone level. For this purpose, we acquire RGB images of the individual stones and of the wall during the construction phase ...

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