Masonry arch bridges form a noteworthy portion of road and railway networks in Europe and
Turkey. Structural assessment of such bridges is often required because of their vulnerability …

This article investigates the damping behavior of masonry arch bridges under service loads
extracted from experimental data and provides guidelines on how to emulate this behavior …

Finite element model updating of a structure made of linear elastic materials is based on the
solution of a minimization problem. The goal is to find some unknown parameters of the …

This paper focuses on the calibration of a numerical model of a stone masonry arch railway
bridge using dynamic modal parameters estimated from an ambient vibration test. The …

Multi-objective optimization-based model calibration can be an intermediate solution
between the computationally expensive probabilistic approaches and the single-objective …

A seismic assessment study of two historical masonry arch bridges, with different geometries
and spans, is presented. The seismicity of the two locations was analyzed in order to define …

In the railway network of Iran, a large number of masonry arch bridges exist which most of
them was constructed 80 years ago. Despite these types of bridges have shown an …

Growing interest in the preservation of architectural heritage has revealed a need for tools
that are capable to reliably analyze masonry structures. For decades, finite element …

There are plentiful masonry arch bridges around the world that have been used as railway
bridges for more than 80 years. In Iran's railway network, 3,700 bridges exist which all of …

This paper presents system identification and seismic performance assessment of a
masonry arch bridge located on the railway route which is on the northeastern part of …