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Toward development of a biomimetic tensegrity footbridge

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A global framework for data-informed bridge examination

Influence of model uncertainty and long term deformations in action effects calculation in reinforced concrete structures

Short-term behavior of glass fiber-polymer composite bending-active elastica beam under service load application

Performance Comparison of Cables With Partial Transposition

Additive Manufacturing of Bioinspired Mineral-Based Composites

Instabilities in Elastic and Magneto-Elastic Beams and Shells: from Shell Buckling to the Design of a Programmable Braille Reader

Selection of informative monitoring techniques for bridge-performance evaluations

Sensing the structural behavior: A perspective on the usefulness of monitoring information for bridge examination

Framework to evaluate the value of monitoring-technique information for structural performance monitoring

Reliability analysis and partial safety format calibration considering the characteristics of the resistance of reinforced concrete structures

Experimental testing and structural analysis of composite tile – reinforced concrete domes

Assessment of the transmission line theory in the modeling of multiconductor underground cable systems for transient analysis using a full-wave FDTD method

Modeling and characterization of the nucleation and growth of carbon nanostructures in physical synthesis

LiBF4‐Induced Rearrangement and Desymmetrization of a Palladium‐Ligand Assembly

A Collaborative Workflow to Automate the Design, Analysis, and Construction of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures

Chiral Cyclic Alkyl Amino Carbene (CAAC) Transition-Metal Complexes: Synthesis, Structural Analysis, and Evaluation in Asymmetric Catalysis

Compressed sensing (CS) MP2RAGE versus standard MPRAGE: A of derived brain volume measurements

Re:Crete - A Footbridge made of Reused Concrete Blocks

Design of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures

Robotically-Fabricated Nexorades from Whole Timber