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Improving Fatigue Evaluations of Structures Using In-Service Behavior Measurement Data

Ian Smith, James-Alexandre Goulet, Romain Pasquier, Claire Acevedo

Conservative models and code practices are usually employed for fatigue-damage predictions of existing structures. Direct in-service behavior measurements are able to provide more accurate estimations of remaining-fatigue-life predictions. However, these e ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2014

Experimental testing of a small-scale truss beam that adapts to loads through large shape changes

Ian Smith, Gennaro Senatore, Arka Prabhata Reksowardojo

Adaptive structures can modify their shape and internal forces through sensing and actuation in order to maintain optimal performance under changing actions. Substantial whole-life energy can be saved with respect to traditional passive designs through wel ...

2019

Search for high-mass exclusive diphoton production with tagged protons in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

Emilio Perez, Thomas L. Sterling, Jiahui Fan, Mateusz Adam Dabrowski, Ian Smith, Matthias Finger, Jian Zhao, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov, Qian Wang, Michele De Palma, Anna Mascellani, Yi Zhang, Jian Wang, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Rakesh Chawla, Myun Sik Kim, Thomas Mountford, Varun Sharma, Mirko Kovac, Shivom Sharma, Chang-Hyun Park, Jae-Woo Choi, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Hua Zhang, Mike Seidel, Joo Yeon Kim, Matteo Galli, Matthias Wolf, James Gonzalo King, Shubhajit Das, Xiaoqiang Wang, Zhenyu Wang, Xin Chen, Gabriele Grosso, Rishi Sharma, Chia-Chun Chen, Jia Liu, Jung Eung Park, Ekaterina Kuznetsova, Siyuan Wang, Mithlesh Kumar, Chenyang Wang, Xiaoxin Gao, Aman Sharma, Junyin Zhang, Subham Choudhury, Seonwoo Lee, Mingyang Liu, Davide Di Croce, Patrick Berger, Jordy Daniel Müller, Marie Jane Francine Jones, Wei-Hsiang Lin, Wanyun Xie, Hyungjun Lee, Vu Trung Tin Nguyen, Junfeng Xiao, Wanting Jin, Zeming Chen, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Young Min Kim, Ling Zhou, Weilin Li, Haoze He, Andrea Santoro, Thomas Ka Chung Lam, Özdemir Can Kara, Bokyoung Kim, Notash Shafiei, Shaohui Yang, Haiyuan Wang, Youngro Lee, Dong Hyun Kim, Florian Hartmann, Muhammad Awais Naeem, Lu Wang, Shailesh Mishra, Tianqi Liu, Zhuan Shi, Leyu Zhang, Yihong Chen, Changliang Li, Sudipto Sarkar, Fang Wang, Yikai Yang, Boya Wang, Guoyuan Liu, Venu Gopal Agarwal, Zihan Wu, Hong-Bin Yang, Yunzhen Yao, Chenxu Liu, Xiaowu Sun, Zihan Hu

A search is presented for high-mass exclusive diphoton production via photon-photon fusion in proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV in events where both protons survive the interaction. The analysis utilizes data corresponding to an integrated lumino ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2024

An electric network for evaluating monitoring strategies intended for hydraullic pressurized networks

Ian Smith, Gaudenz Moser

This paper presents a study of similarities between electrical and hydraulic pressurized networks. The primary objective is to examine whether or not it is possible to use electrical laboratory networks measuring voltage to study leak-region detection stra ...

Elsevier2016

Hierarchical sensor placement using joint entropy and the effect of modeling error

Ian Smith, Maria Papadopoulou

Good prediction of the behavior of wind around buildings improves designs for natural ventilation in warm climates. However wind modeling is complex, predictions are often inaccurate due to the large uncertainties in parameter values. The goal of this work ...

MDPI AG2014

Using electrical resistance networks to enhance performance assessments of water distribution networks

Ian Smith, Stephanie Ann German, Gaudenz Moser

Pressurized fluid-distribution networks are strategic elements of civil infrastructure. In the case of fresh-water distribution networks, where leaks are common and where real performance is unknown, advanced sensor-based diagnostic methodologies have the ...

2015

Deployment of a Pentagonal Hollow-Rope Tensegrity Module

Ian Smith, Nizar Bel Hadj Ali, Landolf-Giosef-Anastasios Rhode-Barbarigos, René Motro

Tensegrity structures are spatial reticulated structures composed of cables and struts. Tensegrity systems are good candidates for adaptive and deployable structures and thus have applications in various engineering fields. A “hollow-rope” tensegrity syste ...

2011

Improving Remaining-Fatigue-Life Evaluation Using Data Interpretation

Ian Smith, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Romain Pasquier

This paper presents a methodology that improves fatigue-performance evaluations using model-based data interpretation. The accuracy of stress-range values is essential for quantifying fatigue damage. These values are usually predicted using physics-based m ...

2013

Measurement system design for civil infrastructure using expected utility

Ian Smith, James-Alexandre Goulet, Romain Pasquier

For system identification, most sensor-placement strategies are based on the minimization of the model-parameter uncertainty. However, reducing the uncertainty in remaining-life prognosis of structures is often more relevant. This paper proposes an optimiz ...

Elsevier2017

Configuration of control system for damage tolerance of a tensegrity bridge

Ian Smith, Nizar Bel Hadj Ali, Sinan Korkmaz

Tensegrity structures are spatial, discrete, and lightweight structures that are composed of struts in compression and pre-stressed cables. Stability is provided by the self-stress state between elements independently of external actions. Tensegrity struct ...

Elsevier2012

A Comparison of optimal measurement-system design with engineering judgement for bridge load testing

Ian Smith, Numa Joy Bertola

Due to conservative approaches in construction design and practice, infrastructure often has hidden reserve capacity. When quantified, this reserve has potential to improve decisions related to asset management. Field measurements, collected through load t ...

2021

Designing tensegrity modules for pedestrian bridges

Ian Smith, Nizar Bel Hadj Ali, Landolf-Giosef-Anastasios Rhode-Barbarigos, René Motro

Tensegrity systems are spatial structures composed of tensile and compression components in a self-equilibrated state of prestress. The tensegrity concept has already been studied by researchers in various fields over the past decades. A family of tensegri ...

Elsevier2010

Determining Control Strategies for Damage Tolerance of an Active Tensegrity Structure

Ian Smith, Nizar Bel Hadj Ali, Sinan Korkmaz

Tensegrity structures are spatial, reticulate and lightweight systems composed of struts and cables. Stability is provided by a self-stress state between tensioned and compressed elements. Tensegrities have received interest among scientists and engineers ...

Elsevier2011

Model-Class Selection Using Clustering and Classification for Structural Identification and Prediction

Ian Smith, Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai

Structural identification using physics-based models and subsequent prediction have much potential to enhance civil infrastructure asset-management decision-making. Interpreting monitoring information in the presence of multiple uncertainty sources and sys ...

2021

Design optimization and dynamic analysis of a tensegrity-based footbridge

Ian Smith, Nizar Bel Hadj Ali, Landolf-Giosef-Anastasios Rhode-Barbarigos

Tensegrity structures are spatial structural systems composed of struts and cables with pin-jointed connections. Their stability is provided by the self-stress state in tensioned and compressed members. Although much progress has been made in advancing res ...

Elsevier2010

Model falsification diagnosis and sensor placement for leak detection in pressurized pipe networks

Ian Smith, James-Alexandre Goulet, Sylvain Coutu

Pressurized pipe networks used for fresh-water distribution can take advantage of recent advances in sensing technologies and data-interpretation to evaluate their performance. In this paper, a leak-detection and a sensor placement methodology are proposed ...

Elsevier2013

Estimation of modelling errors in structural system identification

Ian Smith, James-Alexandre Goulet

This paper presents a method for measurement-system design through criteria related to model based structural identification. Using a multi-model approach and results from previous research carried out at EPFL, an improved algorithm is proposed. The algori ...

2009

A Hybrid Model-Free Data-Interpretation Approach For Damage Detection During Continuous Civil-Infrastructure Monitoring

Ian Smith, Ngoc Thanh Trinh, Irwanda Laory

A hard challenge associated with infrastructure monitoring is to extract useful information from large amounts of measurement data in order to detect changes in structures. This paper presents a hybrid model-free approach that combines two model-free metho ...

2012

A model-based data-interpretation framework for post-earthquake building assessment with scarce measurement data

Ian Smith, Pierino Lestuzzi, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland

Recent earthquake events throughout the world have once again exposed the vulnerability of buildings with respect to earthquakes. It is unlikely and unsustainable to design and - especially in regions with low-to-moderate seismic hazard – to retrofit all b ...

2019

Reducing uncertainties in response predictions of earthquake-damaged masonry buildings using data from image-based inspection

Ian Smith, Katrin Beyer, Bryan German Pantoja Rosero, Mathias Christian Haindl Carvallo

Image information about the state of a building after an earthquake, which can be collected without endangering the post-earthquake reconnaissance activities, can be used to reduce uncertainties in response predictions for future seismic events. This paper ...

Springer2024