This paper studies topology optimization as a tool for designing barriers for ground vibration transmission. A two-dimensional problem is considered where material is sti [...]

The continuous monitoring of loads applied to structures and the system response is very important for structural health monitoring. For civil engineering structures, the [...]

This paper discusses the design, the installation, and the experimental and numerical evaluation of the effectiveness of a stiff wave barrier in the soil as a mitigation [...]

To allow for a more accurate description of crowd-induced loading, the present study aims to provide the necessary insights into vertical human-structure interaction (HSI [...]

The increasing complexity of mechanical structures makes the measurement of dynamic loadings on the structure non practical, since the applied forces can not be measured [...]

Slender structures such as footbridges may be prone to human induced vibrations such that vibration mitigation devices as TMD’s are adopted to increase the structural d [...]

This paper examines the influence of imperfectly known local subsoil conditions on the response prediction of buildings to ground-borne environmental vibration. A probabi [...]

This paper presents a technique for offline time synchronization of data acquisition systems for linear structures with proportional damping. The technique can be applied [...]

The free wave characteristics, i.e. propagation constants and free waves, characterize the dynamic behaviour of periodic structures. For this reason, they may therefore p [...]

This paper reports on the dynamic soil-structure analysis of a telescope pier of an astrophysical laboratory in the Sierra de Javalambre, Teruel (Spain). Vibration contro [...]