The Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) method is based on the behavior reflected in flocks of birds, bees and fish that adjust their physical movements to avoid predators [...]

Spatial and temporal discretization of partial differential equations, such as the ones occurring from continuum mechanics theory, produce sparse matrices which are domin [...]

The dynamic equation of motion of a SDOF system with a nonlinear elastic hardening spring, a SDOF system with a nonlinear elastic softening spring and a SDOF system with [...]

Structural damage identification has drawn increasing academic interest, as witnessed by the number of relevant journal and conference papers, during the recent years. Th [...]

Soil-structure interaction (SSI) phenomena are of crucial importance when considering a structure's response to an earthquake excitation. On top of modeling the actual st [...]

During the last decades, many constitutive models have been proposed for simulating the behavior of reinforced concrete structures under cyclic loading. Most of the appro [...]

COMPDYN 2017 is one of the Thematic Conferences of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) and a Special Interest Conference of the [...]

In the imminent future the design of concrete structures in Europe will be governed by the application of Eurocode 2 (EC2). In particular, EC2 – Part 1-1 [1] deals with [...]

This paper investigates the influence of uncertain spatially varying material properties on the fracture behavior of structures made of softening materials. To model the [...]