The integrations needed to determine beam deflections require the enforcement of the appropriate displacement and rotation boundary conditions (BCs). It is important that we be able to recognize these ...

Construction has stopped on the two bridges at McBrien and South Moore roads because of problems with some of the beams as part of the second phase of the Interstate 75-Interstate 24 split project.

In this study, a novel hybrid metaheuristic algorithm, termed (BES–GO), is proposed for solving benchmark structural design optimization problems, including welded beam design, three-bar truss system ...

This study identifies non-homogeneous stiffnesses in a non-destructive manner from simulated noisy measurements of a structural response. The finite element method serves as a discretization for the ...