Intelligent computational paradigms in earthquake engineering

This book presents the application of learning machines, artificial neural networks and support vector machines as highly-efficient pattern recognition tools for structural damage detection. It includes an AI-based evaluation of bridge structures using life-cycle cost principles that considers seism...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Lagaros, Nikos D., 1970-, Tsompanakis, Yiannis, 1969-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Improved seismic design procedures and evolutionary tools / Michalis Fragiadakis, Nikos Lagaros, Yiannis Tsompanakis, Manolis Papadrakakis
  • II. Applying neural networks for performance-based design in earthquake engineering / Ricardo Foschi
  • III. Evolutionary seismic design for optimal performance / Arzhang Alimoradi, Shahram Pezeshk, Christopher Foley
  • IV. Optimal reliability-based design using support vector machines and artificial life algorithms / Jorge Hurtado
  • V. Optimum design of structures for earthquake induced loading by wavelet neural network / Eysa Salajegheh, Ali Heidari
  • VI. Developments in structural optimization and applications to intelligent structural vibration control / Faruque Ali, Ananth Ramaswamy
  • VII. Neuro-fuzzy assessment of building damage and safety after an earthquake / Martha Carreño, Omar Cardona, Alex Barbat
  • VIII. Learning machines for structural damage detection / Miguel Hernandez-Garcia, Mauricio Sanchez-Silva
  • IX. Structural assessment of RC constructions and fuzzy expert systems / Mauro Mezzina, Giuseppina Uva, Rita Greco, Giuseppe Acciani, Giuseppe Cascella, Girolamo Fornarelli
  • X. Life-cycle cost evaluation of bridge structures considering seismic risk / Hitoshi Furuta, Kazuhiro Koyama
  • XI. Soft computing techniques in probabilistic seismic analysis of structures / Nikos Lagaros, Yiannis Tsompanakis, Michalis Fragiadakis, Manolis Papadrakakis
  • XII. Inverse analysis of weak and strong motion downhole array data / Dominic Assimaki
  • XIII. Genetic algorithms in structural identification and damage detection / Chan Koh
  • XIV. Neural network-based identification of structural parameters in multistory buildings / Snehashish Chakraverty
  • XV. Application of neurocomputing to parametric identification using dynamic responses / Leonard Ziemianski, Bartosz Miller, Grzegorz Piatkowski
  • XVI. Neural networks for the simulation and identification analysis of buildings subjected to paraseismic excitations / Krystyna Kuzniar, Zenon Waszczyszyn.