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Introduction We are seeing rapid development of sensor technology which will radically change monitoring methods for civil structures in coming years.
Of all the papers dealing with application of Bayesian theory to engineering problems, the authors wish to mention Beck's work [4,5,6], which by disseminating these concepts had great impact on the civil engineering community.
Acknowledgements The project mentioned in this paper is partially funded by the Italian Earthquake Engineering Laboratory Network (RELUIS), and involves contributions by the Autonomous Province of Trento (PAT) and Rivoli SpA, of Rivoli Veronese.

In-plane Buckling Analysis of Gabled Arch Frame Steel Building Jun Li1,a, Yuanqing Wang2,b, Ting Chang2,c, Fei Shi2,d 1 HFUT Institute of Architectural Design, Heifei 230009, China 2 Key Laboratory of Civil Engineering Safety and Durability of China Education Ministry, Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China a lijun200804@163.com, b wang-yq@tsinghua.edu.cn, c changting59030@163.com,d shifei@tsinghua.org.cn Keywords: gabled arch frame; linear buckling; extreme buckling; initial deficiency Abstract: In order to study characteristics and rules of the in-plane stability for gabled arch frame steel building, a well-known FEA software package ANSYS has been used to calculate the in-plane buckling of a gabled arch frame which has a span of 30m.
In: the 8th National Symposium on Modern Structural Engineering, Tianjin (2008), p. 507-511, in Chinese

An experimental corrosion investigation of coupling chloride ions with stray current for reinforced concrete Mengcheng CHEN1,a, Kai WANG1,b, Quanshui WU1,c and Zhen QIN1,d 1School of Civil Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China amengcheng_chen@yahoo.com.cn; bwklab@163.com; cwqslab@163.com; dqzhlab@163.com Keywords: reinforced concrete beam; stray current; chloride ion; electrochemical test; transport characteristics Abstract: According to the service environment of light rail transit and subway structures, in this paper experiments on the corrosion characteristics of reinforced concrete under single corrosion environment of stray current, single corrosion environment of chloride ions and joint corrosion environment of stray current and chloride ions were respectively carried out.
China Western Exploration Engineering 1999, 11(6):31-35,39.
In: Advances in Civil Engineering Materials, edited by Miao CW, Ye G and Chen HS, the 50-year Teaching and Research Anniversary of Prof Sun Wei, 15 October, 2008, pp.71-79

The Overall Stability Calculation Method for Sway Frame Weifeng Tian1,a, Jiping Hao1,b and Chunlei Fan1,2,c 1 School of Civil Engineering, Xi'an University of Arch & Tech, Xi'an 710055, China 2 Institute of Architecture, Xi'an University of Arch & Tech, Xi'an 710055, China axiaotianhao@126.com, bhao-jp168@163.com, c vincerfan@163.com Keywords: negative stiffness, overall stability, sway frame.
The results show that this simple calculation method has good precision and accuracy, can be used for engineering design and theoretical calculations.

Scheuermann1,c 1School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia ay.tun@uq.edu.au, bd.pedroso@uq.edu.au, ca.scheuermann@uq.edu.au Keywords: Genetic algorithm, probabilistic reliability assessment, stochastic methods Abstract.
Uncertainty estimation and consideration in engineering is an important practice to design reliable structures especially in geotechnical engineering since the level of control with regards to the material parameters is much lower.
Introduction Slope stability is an important and challenging problem in geotechnical engineering because of uncertain material data and the potential existence of more than one failure surface.
In fact, the rational approach for taking into account uncertainties in engineering problems is through a probabilistic reliability assessment as already conducted for slopes [1].

Analysis of Slope Stability Based on Gaussian Process Regression Yan Zhang1, a, Guoshao Su1, b and Liubin Yan1, c 1School of Civil and Architecture Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, 530004, China ayanzi22858@126.com, bsuguoshao@163.com, cyanliubin@126.com Keywords: Rock and Soil Mechanics, Slope Stability, Gaussian Process Regression, Machine Learning.
Slope stability estimation is an engineering problem that involves several parameters.
Without complicated mechanics computation process, through learning the empirical knowledge coming from real engineering, the complicated nonlinear mapping relationship between slope stability and its influencing factors was established easily using GPR.
Introduction Slope stability is a geotechnical engineering problem influenced by many sources of uncertainty.
Based on the engineering experience, the magnitude of unit weight (γ), cohesion (c), angle of internal friction (φ), slope angle (β), height (H) and pore water pressure coefficient (ru) are input variables chosen as the main factors that influence slope stability.

The Engineering Properties of Kaolinitic Clay and Burning Shell Activated by Alkali Solution Barames Vardhanabhuti1,a, Parames Kamhangrittirong2,b and Korakot Amornworawit3,c 1Department of civil engineering, Kasetsart University, THAILAND 2Center of building innovation and technology, Kasetsart University, THAILAND 3Thaithana builders, Co.
The raw materials were tested for engineering index and properties.

Sang: Coal Engineering. 5 (2010), p. 69-72(in Chinese)
Zou: Journal of Mining & Safety Engineering. 2 (1990), p. 49-54.
Ma: Journal of Mining & Safety Engineering.
Xie: Mineral Engineering Research.
Sun: Geotechnical Engineering Technique.

Effect of elevated temperature on the mechanical behavior of natural aggregate concrete Yan HQ a, Wang QY b Department of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China a yhq_aria@163.com, bwangqy@scu.edu.cn Keywords: concrete, fire, high temperature, cooling mode, compressive strength.
Thus, in order to meet the modern challenges of rapid engineering advances and societal development, further research on the concrete material and its structural behavior at high temperatures becomes extremely important.

Microscopic Analysis and Experimental Research on Thermal Mechanical Behavior of Natural Aggregate Concrete Yan HQ a, Wang QY b Department of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China a yhq_aria@163.com, b wangqy@scu.edu.cn Keywords: concrete, high temperature, cooling mode, compressive strength.
Thus, in order to meet the modern challenges of rapid engineering advances and societal development, further research on the concrete material and its structural behavior at high temperatures becomes extremely important.