The offshore environment represents a vast source of renewable energy, and marine
renewable energy plants have the potential to contribute to the future energy mix …

The implementation of reliability methods for designing new structures and assessing the
safety and evaluating the performance of existing structures and infrastructure systems has …

This paper presents an optimal design procedure for a pendulum tuned mass damper
(PTMD) to mitigate the global structural vibrations of offshore wind turbines (OWTs) in the …

Offshore wind turbines (OWTs) are complex systems that may experience excessive
vibrations due to winds, waves, rotor torque, or seismic loads during the operation. Tuned …

A long‐span suspension bridge is a complex structural system that interacts with the
surrounding environment and the users. The environmental actions and the corresponding …

This paper will explain the elementary aspects related to structural robustness. The concept
of structural integrity is firstly introduced and next it is considered how it varies in time. The …

Offshore wind turbines and their foundations experience loading from varying directions, yet
understanding of the effect of changes in the direction of applied cyclic loading on …

The seismic analysis of long-span cable suspended bridges is undoubtedly a problem in
structural analysis that involves a high number of uncertain parameters. In this work, through …

It is believed that offshore wind farms may satisfy an increasing portion of the energy
demand in the next years. This paper presents a comparative study of the fatigue …

Precast hollow core slabs (HCS) are technically advanced products in the precast concrete
industry, widely used in the last years due to their versatility, their multipurpose potential and …