Fatigue cracking of welded railway bridges: A review

G Alencar, A de Jesus, JGS da Silva… - Engineering Failure …, 2019 - Elsevier
Steel railway bridges of all types comprise a large portion of the infrastructure inventory of
several countries. Due to the ageing of these structures and increasing traffic loadings …

Applications of genetic algorithm and its variants in rail vehicle systems: A bibliometric analysis and comprehensive review

HJ Kaleybar, M Davoodi, M Brenna, D Zaninelli - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Railway systems are time-varying and complex systems with nonlinear behaviors that
require effective optimization techniques to achieve optimal performance. Evolutionary …

Damage detection in railway bridges using traffic-induced dynamic responses

A Meixedo, J Santos, D Ribeiro, R Calçada… - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper aims at detecting damage in railway bridges based on traffic-induced dynamic
responses. To achieve this goal, an unsupervised automatic data-driven methodology is …

Non-contact measurement of the dynamic displacement of railway bridges using an advanced video-based system

D Ribeiro, R Calçada, J Ferreira, T Martins - Engineering Structures, 2014 - Elsevier
This article describes the development of a non-contact dynamic displacement
measurement system for railway bridges based on video technology. The system, consisting …

Online unsupervised detection of structural changes using train–induced dynamic responses

A Meixedo, J Santos, D Ribeiro, R Calçada… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper exploits unsupervised data-driven structural health monitoring (SHM) in order to
propose a continuous online procedure for damage detection based on train-induced …

Non-contact structural displacement measurement using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and video-based systems

D Ribeiro, R Santos, R Cabral, G Saramago… - … Systems and Signal …, 2021 - Elsevier
This article describes an innovative methodology for estimating in-plane horizontal
displacements of Civil Engineering structures based on video systems integrated on …

Model updating of railway bridge using in situ dynamic displacement measurement under trainloads

D Feng, MQ Feng - Journal of Bridge Engineering, 2015 - ascelibrary.org
To address the need for monitoring aging railway bridges, this paper presents a finite-
element (FE) model updating approach using time-domain optimization based on in situ …

Uncertainty quantification of the modal assurance criterion in operational modal analysis

S Greś, M Döhler, L Mevel - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Modal Assurance Criterion (MAC) is a modal indicator designed to decide
whether the mode shapes used in its computation are corresponding to the same mode …

Simultaneous identification of bridge structural parameters and vehicle loads

D Feng, H Sun, MQ Feng - Computers & Structures, 2015 - Elsevier
Most of the existing methods for identification of vehicle axle loads are based on a model
with known system parameters. In this study, a new method is proposed to simultaneously …

Model updating of a historic concrete bridge by sensitivity-and global optimization-based Latin Hypercube Sampling

R Ferrari, D Froio, E Rizzi, C Gentile, EN Chatzi - Engineering Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, a self-implemented model updating global optimization procedure is
successfully applied to a remarkable case study concerning a historic centennial Reinforced …