Papers

101 A depth-averaged mu(I)-rheology for shallow granular free-surface flows
Nico Gray, Andrew Edwards

103 Drag of a tracer disk in granular media
Hisao Hayakawa, Satoshi Takada

109 Full scale shaking table testing of a low-cost sliding isolation system for light frame buildings
Ezra Jampole, Gregory Deierlein, Eduardo Miranda, Benjamin Fell

111 Contact longevity, speed, and migration during loading of dense granular materials
Matthew R. Kuhn, WaiChing Sun

113 Dynamic hydro-geomechanical simulation of earthquakes induced by fluid injections in geothermal reservoirs
Mamun Miah, Laura Martin, William Foxall, Lawrence Hutchings

119 A molecular dynamics analysis of cross-linked epoxy network: thermo-mechanical properties
Saeed Masoumi, Hamid Vali Pour, Stephen Foster

121 Homogenization-based coarse graining framework for the analysis of reinforced concrete structural elements
Erol Lale, Roozbeh Rezakhani, Mohammed Alnaggar, Gianluca Cusatis

123 [WITHDRAWN] Some universal relations for contacting granules under shock loading
Sia Nemat-Nasser, M. Arif Hasan

125 Multiscale modeling and numerical simulation of multiphase elastic composites with discontinuous material properties
Raimondo Penta, Alf Gerisch

127 Clustered separated peaks-over-threshold simulation—estimation and uncertainty quantification of hurricane sandy’s return period
Madeleine Lopeman, George Deodatis, Guillermo Franco

129 Finite element buckling and static analysis of eccentrically curvilinearly stiffened composite panels
Wei Zhao, Rekesh Kapania

131 Filters on satake graphs
Joe Goddard

133 Development of steel-timber composite system for large scale construction
Amirhossein Hassanieh, Hamid Vali Pour, Stephen Foster

139 Application of arc length method in random loading analysis of force based geometrically nonlinear beam element
Tathagata Ray

141 A computational model for a multi-path leakage of geo-sequestered CO2
Mehdi Musivand Arzanfudi, Rafid Al-Khoury

147 Coupling fluid flow and earthquake modeling in 2d and 3d discrete fracture networks
Mark McClure

149 Benchmark problem in active structural control with wireless sensor network
Zhuoxiong Sun, Bo Li, Shirley Dyke, Chenyang Lu, Lauren Linderman

151 Multi-physics macro- and micro-characterization of organic-rich shale upon pyrolysis-induced thermal maturation
Adam M. Allan, Anthony C. Clark, Tiziana Vanorio

153 Drag force regimes in granular impact simulational study
Mukesh Tiwari, T R Krishna Mohan, Surajit Sen

155 A constitutive model for rockfills considering grain breakage and size effect
Pierre-Yves Hicher, Zhen-Yu Yin, Christophe Dano

157 FEA study of hysteresis loop of heavy duty vehicle axle
Nilesh Gadre, Manan Panchal , Vinaay patil

159 The effects of systematic uncertainty on system identification and model predictions
Romain Pasquier, Ian F. C. Smith

161 Spline-based finite element methods in the simulation of deformable sloshing tanks
Stefanie Elgeti, Norbert Hosters, Atanas Stavrev, Marek Behr

165 Experimental evaluation of a model accuracy indicator for hybrid simulations involving model updating
Cheng Chen, Nelly Averamova

167 Two-scale coupled flow and geomechanics: continuum modeling and stabilized finite elements
Jinhyun Choo, Ronaldo Borja

171 A predictive localized damage and failure theory for 2d nanomaterials
Sinan Keten, Luis Ruiz, Zhaoxu Meng, Wenjie Xia

175 Discerning nanoconfinement effects in bioinspired nanocomposites through predictive multi-scale simulations
Sinan Keten, Wenjie Xia, Chen Shao

177 Evaluation of maximum likelihood fitting for fragility analysis of code-designed steel plate shear walls
Ramin Barghi, Cheng Chen, Benjamin Kean, Shihang Guo

179 Simulating low-cycle fatigue and its effects on seismic behavior of steel braced frames
Yuli Huang, Stephen Mahin

181 On the solution of coupled porous media mechanics with hysteretic liquid retention behaviour
Dorival Pedroso

183 Disordered granular matter: unravelling complexity from high-resolution data
Antoinette Tordesillas

185 Nonlinear model updating by means of identified nonlinear normal modes
Mingming Song, Ludovic Renson, Jean-Philippe Noël, Babak Moaveni, Gaetan Kerschen

187 An efficient wiener path integral technique formulation for stochastic response determination of nonlinear MDOF systems
Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou, Alberto Di Matteo, Antonina Pirrotta, Pol Spanos, Mario Di Paola

189 Simple views on granular materials: jamming, bubbling, clogging, and meandering
Ko Okumura

191 Reliability assessment of a softening duffing oscillator under evolutionary stochastic excitation
Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou, Yuanjin Zhang, Michael Beer

193 A frequency-domain method for identifying nonlinear vibrating structures
Jean-Philippe Noël, Tilàn Dossogne, Gaëtan Kerschen

197 Reduced basis approximation for 2d elasticity problems with geometry representing by parametric curves
Khac Chi Hoang, Pierre Kerfriden, Stephane Bordas, Jeong-Hoon Song

199 Nanoindentation investigation of unaged, aged, and polymer-modified asphalt binder and mastic linear viscoelasticity and cohesion
Yuriy Veytskin, Christopher Bobko

201 The influence of modeling errors in joint input-state estimation
Kristof Maes, Andrew Smyth, Guido De Roeck, Geert Lombaert

203 Inelastic creep in extremely low permeability unconventional reservoir formations
Fatemeh Rassouli, Mark Zoback

205 Online actuator tracking assessment for real-time hybrid simulation using frequency-domain evaluation index
Weijie Xu, Cheng Chen, Tong Guo

209 Rate-type analysis of prestressed box girders: a case study based on a unified viscoelastic-plastic-damage constitutive law
Teng Tong, Weijin Wang, Qiang Yu

211 The triaxial constraints of a v-notch tip and the strength of composite-to-steel joints
Ting Wu, Daoqin Chen, Changlu Tian

213 Flexible minerals: self-assembled calcite spicules with extreme bending strength*
Filipe Natalio, Michael Kappl, Hans-Jürgen Butt, Wolfgang Tremel

215 Size effect of crack propagation in a layered quasibrittle domain containing a frictional interface
Chunlin Pan, Jeen-Shang Lin, Qiang Yu

217 Efficiency of different spectral acceleration based intensity measures for seismic collapse assessment
Christoph Adam, Styliani Tsantaki, David Kampenhuber, Luis F. Ibarra

219 Frequency domain based assessment of actuator tracking for real-time hybrid simulations involving strength and stiffness degradation
Samuel Richardson, Cheng Chen, Hezareigh Ryan, Weijie Xu, Tong Guo

221 Long wave buckling instability study for progressive collapse of tall steel moment frames
Maura Torres, Simos Gerasimidis , Professor George Deodatis, Dr. Mohammed Ettouney

225 Properties of the contact network of granular materials: jamming and mechanical equilibrium
Roberto Arevalo

227 A numerical analysis of the influence of the initial state of soil on the failure mechanism of sand-filled column collapses
James Fern, Kenichi Soga

229 3D hierarchical multiscale modeling (HMM) of strain localization in granular media
Ning Guo, Jidong Zhao

231 Thickness mapping by guided wave tomography
Peter Huthwaite

235 Analytical identification of progressive collapse modes of 3D steel frames through new euler-type progressive collapse curves
Athina Spyridaki, Symeon Gerasimidis, George Deodatis, Mohammed Ettouney

237 Coastal wave-structure interaction simulations using an immersed boundary method
Ning Zhang, Adam Oler

241 [WITHDRAWN] A system for distributed real-time material characterization via direct strain imaging
Athanasios Iliopoulos, John Michopoulos, John Steuben

243 A framework for assessing wind hazard on buildings considering uncertainties in structural performance
Sungmoon Jung, Arda Vanli, Bejoy Alduse

247 Seismic analysis of reinforced concrete non-planar walls and buildings using three-dimensional beam-truss models
Yuan Lu, Marios Panagiotou

249 Three-dimensional seismic analysis and design of damage resistant tall rocking core wall buildings
Yuan Lu, Marios Panagiotou

251 Probabilistic analysis of reinforced concrete buildings against progressive collapse
Bing Xue, Jia-Liang Le

255 Large deformation granular strain measures and calculations of granular stress based upon 3-dimensional ellipsoidal dem
Boning Zhang, Richard Regueiro

257 The overall elastic dielectric properties of a suspension of spherical particles in rubber: an exact explicit solution in the small-deformation limit
Oscar Lopez-Pamies, Victor Lefevre

259 An investigation on the elastic fields in 2D bounded domains disturbed by multiple circular inhomogeneous inclusions
Chunlin Pan, Qiang Yu

261 From performance-based earthquake engineering to urban resilience
Gregory Deierlein

265 A computational analysis of particle morphology effects on critical state
Alex Jerves, Reid Kawamoto, Jose Andrade

267 Nucleation dependent relative permeability of hydrate-bearing granular media
Dong Hun Kang, Tae Sup Yun

273 Development and application of generalized conforming shell element for earthquake-induced collapse simulation of tall buildings
Lisha Wang, Song Cen, Linlin Xie, Xinzheng Lu

275 A simulation method for the fire-induced progressive collapse of concrete structures
Mengzhu Diao, Yi Li, Xinzheng Lu, Mingjian Ying

279 A polynomial chaos based kalman filter approach for service life prediction of reinforced concrete structures subject to chloride induced corrosion
Wael Slika, George Saad

283 Distributed fiber optic strain sensing to assess complex structural behavior
Neil Hoult

285 The effect of the rotational inertia on the post-uplift dynamic stability of free-standing rocking columns and articulated frames
Nicos Makris

287 A probabilistic crack band model for quasibrittle fracture
Jia-Liang Le, Jan Elias

289 Constitutive modelling of isotropic and anisotropic rock
Benjamin Fuchs, David Unteregger, Guenter Hofstetter

291 A preliminary study of lateral impacts in rocking systems
Manolis Chatzis

293 Analysis of mortar under impact: a combined materials characterization, micromechanics modeling, and dynamic testing approach
Nathan Mayercsik, Matt Shaeffer, Lori Graham-Brady, Kimberly Kurtis

295 Statistical linearization of nonlinear systems with singular mass matrices
Vasileios Fragkoulis, Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou, Athanasios Pantelous

297 Isogeometric analysis for phase-field methods in computational solid mechanics
Michael Borden, Eric Domonell

299 Landslide instability in unsaturated soils: a grain-scale approach
Yixiang Gan, Thierry Faug, Yi Zhang, Dorian Hanaor

301 Porous media with heat transport and pore deformation
Bob Behringer, Nicolas Brodu, Joshua Dijksman

303 Overview of continuum and discrete modeling of a tapped column
Anthony Rosato, Denis Blackmore, Hao Wu, David Horntrop, Luo Zuo

305 Variability response functions for effective conductivity in continua
Sanjay Arwade, Kirubel Teferra, George Deodatis

307 Predicting conduction parameters in porous media
Joost van der Linden, Guillermo Narsilio, Antoinette Tordesillas, Tae Sup Yun

309 Comparison of micromorphic and micropolar elasticity using large deformation finite element analysis
Farhad Shahabi, Richard Regueiro

313 Shape matters: quantifying the influence of particle shape on the shear response of granular sand
Jidong Zhao, Zhaochen Liu

317 Investigations of vortex structures during granular flow by DEM
Jacek Tejchman, Jan Kozicki

319 Behavior of ultra-high-performance-concrete at early age: experiments and simulations
Lin Wan, Roman Wendner, Gianluca Cusatis

323 Consequences of microbial decay on mechanical properties of wood cell walls
Leopold Wagner, Thomas K. Bader, Josef Eberhardsteiner, Karin de Borst

325 Strain localization simulation with temperature effects for multiphase geomaterials in dynamic analysis
Duc Toan Cao, Lorenzo Sanavia , Yongqi Wang

327 Constrained surface growth of incompressible actin gel
Tal Cohen, David Durban, Yannis Dafalias

329 Dynamic asymmetry in polymer modified bitumen: a viscoelastic model for phase separation
Jiqing Zhu, Niki Kringos

331 From local structural characterisation of porous materials to structure-property relations: a systematic approach
Raphael Blumenfeld

333 Up-scaling molecular simulations of failure through size effects
Laurent Brochard, Gyorgy Hantal, Roland Pellenq, Franz Ulm, Benoit Coasne

335 Efficient binning of random samples applied to a micromechanics damage model of brittle materials
Farah Huq, Lori Graham-Brady, Rebecca Brannon

337 On particle crushing probability in confined comminution
Carlos Ovalle, Charles Voivret, Christophe Dano, Pierre-Yves Hicher

339 Variational projection and implicit integration for gradient crystal plasticity
Timothy Truster, Omar Nassif

343 Simultaneous recovery of fracture geometry and boundary condition at high frequencies
Fatemeh Pourahmadian, Bojan Guzina

345 Nanoindentation investigation of fib-milled microstructures to assess nanoscale strength and fracture toughness of cement
Rahnuma Shahrin, Christopher Bobko

349 Failure and shear and bending in earthen structural walls
Craig Foster, David Weed, Adam Tennant, Mohammad Hosein Motamedi

351 Modeling of dowel action in bridge abutment shear keys
Alexandra Kottari, Pui-Shum, Benson Shing, Jose Restrepo

353 Mechanisms for an infiltration-induced instability of a highway embankment near a continental divide of colorado rockies
Alexandra Wayllace, Ning Lu

355 An approximate stochastic dynamics approach for efficient performance-based earthquake engineering
Ioannis P. Mitseas, Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou, Michael Beer

357 Coupled thermo-poro-mechanical finite element analysis of fractured porous rocks using a cohesive interface element
Wei Wang, Richard Regueiro

359 Adaptive modeling of damage growth using a coupled FEM/BEM approach
Mostafa Mobasher, Haim Waisman

361 Experimental investigation of ductile fracture initiation in structural steel at elevated temperatures
Christopher Smith

365 A microscopic observation of the behavior of partially saturated sand using microfocus x-ray ct with image analysis
Fusao Oka, Yosuke Higo, Yoichi Morishita, Yoshiki Matsushima

367 Modeling cracks and materials interfaces by an adaptive multiscale local partition of unity enriched finite element method
Tinh Quoc Bui, Sohichi Hirose

369 Analysis of stress chain structure strengthened by vertical tapping
Naoki Iikawa, Mahesh Bandi, Hiroaki Katsuragi

371 Structural reliabilities under wind loads generated by navier-stokes equations
Haoran Zhao, Mircea Grigoriu

375 Extended THM formulation for predicting the long-term behaviour of unsaturated clay barriers
Antonio Gens, Beatrice Pomaro, Marcelo Sanchez

381 Bottom wall pressure in a vibrated granular column
Hiroaki Katsuragi

383 Dynamic identification of hybrid base isolated buildings: Case studies in Sicily
Giuseppe Oliveto, Anastasia Athanasiou

385 Dynamics of inelastic seismically isolated structures
Anastasios Tsiavos, Kevin Mackie, Bozidar Stojadinovic

387 Modeling pre-stressed thin and thick ceramic protective structures under high velocity impact
Ahmad Serjouei, Xianfeng Zhang, Idapalapati Sridhar

389 Debris-flow runout modeling using empirical growth rate equation and previously-calibrated rheological parameters
Seung-Rae Lee, Joon-Young Park, Seok Yoon, Nedumpallile Vasu Nikhil

391 Uncertainty of closely-spaced modes in bayesian modal identification
Yi-Chen Zhu, Siu-Kui Au, Steve Jones

393 The use of geogrid reinforcement for enhancing the performance of concrete overlays
Hayssam Itani, George Saad, Ghassan Chehab

395 A numerical approach to describe failure of wood - from the wood cell level up to wood-based products
Markus Lukacevic, Josef Füssl, Josef Eberhardsteiner

397 A diffuse-interface phase field model of poromechnics of partially saturated media
Giulio Sciarra

399 Topology optimization under material uncertainty: an efficient reliability-based approach
Mehdi Jalalpour, Mazdak Tootkaboni

401 Hydration and ageing of cement: crossing timescales via transition state theory and nanoparticle simulations
Sophie-Anne Frith, Igor Shvab, Enrico Masoero

403 Simulation of microcapsule-based self-healing polymer systems
Steffen Specht, Joachim Bluhm, Jörg Schröder

405 Heteroepitaxial growth of strained thin film in sub-micron patterned substrates: an elastoplastic phase field model
Mehrdad Arjmand, Jie Deng, Narasimhan Swaminathan, Dane Morgan, Izabela Szlufarska

407 A solution algorithm for transient compressible navier-stokes equations at all mach number​​s
Kian Chuan Ong, Andrew Chan, Lee Peng Teo

409 Elastography with X-ray CT and sound-wave integration
Dongxu Liu, Ge Wang, Lizhi Sun

413 Robust topology optimization of frames under geometric uncertainty
Navid Changizi, Mehdi Jalalpour

415 Measuring tensile strength of unconventional shales using microwaving
Jin-Hong Chen, Bitao Lai, Dan Georgi

417 A biphasic fiber-reinforced FE model for cartilage: continuum basis, computational aspects and applications
Tim Ricken, David M. Pierce

419 Bayesian model updating via hybrid monte carlo simulation with an application to a full-scale finite element model
Jinwoo Jang , Andrew Smyth

425 Distributed strain sensing in carbon nanofiber/polyurethane via electrical impedance tomography
Tyler Tallman, Kon-Well Wang

427 Transition between surface hydration and capillary condensation of water by clay surfaces and implications to mechanical behavior
Idil Deniz Akin, William J. Likos

429 Eigen-buckling analysis and buckling mode decomposition for thin-walled members with holes using generalized beam theory
Junle Cai, Cris Moen

431 Microstructural modeling of heterogeneous mixtures subjected to rate-dependent fracture and viscoelastic-viscoplastic deformation
Taesun You, Yong-Rak Kim, Keyvan Zare Rami

433 Poroelastic effects on reactivation of a hydraulic fracture in permeable rock
Erfan Sarvaramini, Dmitry Garagash

435 Continuum model for metallic fiber-cement matrix interaction under confinement stresses
Rafic G. El-Helou, Cristopher D. Moen, Gianluca Cusatis

437 Granular contacts in colloidal suspensions
Ryohei Seto, Romain Mari, Jeffrey Morris, Morton Denn

439 An interface resolution study of multiphase fluid-vegetation interaction problems using material point method
Shaolin Mao, Qin Chen

443 Performance of reinforced concrete columns under realistic load pattern and history
Fatemeh Shirmohammadi, Asad Esmaeily

447 Mixed strain-displacement finite elements for landslide and avalanche release prediction
Lorenzo Benedetti, Miguel Cervera, Michele Chiumenti

449 Shake table test of large-scale bridge columns with rocking foundations
Grigorios Antonellis, Andreas Gerasimos Gavras, Marios Panagiotou, Bruce Lloyd Kutter

451 Stress-dependent model of gas shale porosity
Mikhail Geilikman, Sau-Wai Wong

455 Multiscale testing-analysis of asphaltic materials considering viscoelastic and viscoplastic deformation
Soohyok Im, Taesun You, Hoki Ban, Yong-Rak Kim

457 Improving damping estimation through enhanced frequency response curve-fitting
Patrick Brewick, Andrew Smyth

459 Lattice discrete particle modeling of the anisotropic mechanical behavior of shale
Weixin Li, Congrui Jin, Marco Salviato, Gianluca Cusatis

461 Semi-active vibration control of double-beam system by using magneto-rheological elastomers
Yongxue Li, Lizhi Sun

463 Interaction between a rigid retaining wall and an unsaturated soil
Thanh Vo, Adrian Russell

465 How water retention in fractal soils depends on particle and pore sizes, shapes, volumes and surface areas
Adrian Russell

467 Computational modeling of enhanced bio-interface materials
Emma Lejeune, Ali Javili, Christian Linder

469 Does granular system have a memory? -- a slow relaxation of granular system under shear
Yinqiao Wang, Hongyang Tang, Jie Zhang

471 Numerical simulation of seismic fluid-structure interaction in fluid storage tanks
Payman Khalili-Tehrani, Alexander Kozak, Eric Abrahamson, Alex Krimotat

473 Findings in granular mechanics applicable to evolution modeling in the elastic-plastic constitutive equation
Yoshio Tobita

475 [WITHDRAWN] Analysis of the interface between cementitious materials and microbially-precipitated calcium carbonate using nanoscratch tests
Peter Stynoski, Paramita Mondal, Charles Marsh

477 Climate change impact on lifetime monetary losses due to hurricane-induced damage on tall buildings
Wei Cui, Luca` Caracoglia

479 Variational multiscale enrichment method for elasto-viscoplastic problems
Shuhai Zhang, Caglar Oskay

481 Optimal truss layouts for architectural design
Alessandro Beghini, William Baker

483 Blind prediction of laminated composites under monotonic loading using reduced order computational homogenization
Michael Bogdanor, Caglar Oskay

487 The effect of fracture morphology on transfers in porous geomaterials
Danielle Griffani, Pierre Rognon, Itai Einav

489 Experimental investigation of cold-formed steel sheathed studs compressed at elevated temperatures
Jean C. Batista Abreu, Luiz C. M. Vieira Jr., Benjamin W. Schafer

491 Minkowski tensor shape analysis of cellular, granular and porous structures
Gerd Schröder-Turk, Sebastian Kapfer, Klaus Mecke

493 A cellular foam cellular structure with centralized density for enhancement of mechanical properties under quasi-indentation tests
Shaosong Zhang, Shiu Hong Choi

495 Collective behavior of multiple asperities in frictional contact
Tetsuo Yamaguchi, Yutaka Himeno, Yoshinori Sawae

501 Robust topology optimization of structures sensitive to buckling
Mattias Schevenels, Miche Jansen, Geert Lombaert

503 Numerical modeling of multicomponent two-phase flow in porous media with applications in CO2 geo-sequestration
Ondrej Polivka, Jiri Mikyska

507 Experimental investigations and numerical modelling of dowel connections in timber constructions
Wolfgang Lederer, Thomas K. Bader, Josef Eberhardsteiner

509 Semi-analytical methods for the modeling of transportation infrastructures – Application to energy dissipation in road pavements
Olivier Chupin, Jean-Michel Piau

513 Assessment of deterministic and random compressive sensing sampling schemes for spectral estimation in operational modal analysis
Kyriaki Gkoktsi, Bamrung Tau Siesakul , Agathoklis Giaralis

515 A unified model for ductile fracture of metals under complex loading history
Hussam Mahmoud, Huajie Wen

517 A new rheological model for granular-fluid materials
Xiaogang Guo, Wei Wu, Yongqi Wang

519 Guaranteeing numerical energy-dissipation in phase-field models
Philippe Vignal, Nathan Collier, Donald Brown, Lisandro Dalcin, Victor Calo

523 Measurement based detection of vehicle weights considering the dynamic interaction between vehicles and bridge expansion joints
Roland Friedl, Ingbert Mangerig

525 Predicting ductile fracture in steel column base plate connections using micromechanics-based models
Andrew Myers, Amit Kanvinde, Gregory Deierlein

527 Experimental micromechanics of granular materials under complex loadings
Ali Daouadji, Mohamad Jrad, El Mostafa Daya, Salim Belouettar

529 Rocking of a rigid block on a curved foundation
Jonas Bachmann, Michalis Vassiliou, Bozidar Stojadinovic

531 Numerical simulation of hydraulic fracture propagation using cohesive zone model
Fushen Liu, Dakshina Valiveti, Peter Gordon

535 Gecko-inspired adhesion of a random carbon nanotube array
Steven Cranford, Kwan Yang

537 An explicit interface isogeometric solution to the stefan problem
Tao Song, Kritika Upreti, Ganesh Subbarayan

539 Modeling and analysis of multi-story cold-formed steel building for performance-based seismic design
Jiazhen Leng, Benjamin Schafer, Stephen Buonopane

541 Highlighting some mechanisms of crack formation and propagation in clays on drying-path
Xin Wei, Lamine Ighil Ameur, Jean-Marie Fleureau, Philippe Bompard, Mahdia Hattab

543 Designing constitutive laws: stiffening or softening with the same building blocks
Steven Cranford

545 Surface strain map reconstruction using dense network of thin film sensors
Simon Laflamme, Hussam Saleem, Austin Downey

549 Simulation of large deformation and structural collapse using small deformation theory for performance-based seismic engineering
Kevin Wong

551 Static liquefaction and localized instability in isotropically and anisotropically consolidated saturated sands
Xilin Lu, Jiangu Qian, Maosong Huang

553 Fragility functions for wind turbine blades under extreme wind conditions
Spencer Hallowell, Andrew Myers, Jerome Hajjar, Sanjay Arwade, Nathan Post

555 Coupling between nonlinear elasticity and stress relaxation in biopolymer gels
Sungmin Nam, Ovijit Chaudhuri

557 Phase equilibria calculation of multicomponent mixtures at given volume, temperature, and moles motivated by CO2 sequestration
Tereza Jindrová, Jiří Mikyška

559 Osmotic and other chemomechanical effects in shales, and the relation to suction and capillarity
Russell Ewy

563 Hybrid fire testing
Ana Sauca, Thomas Gernay, Fabienne Robert, Jean Marc Franssen

565 Multi-level hp-adaptivity for transient discretizations of complex domains
Nils Zander, Bog Tino, Stefan Kollmannsberger, Martin Ruess, Dominik Schillinger, Ernst Rank

569 Performance of the ISA constitutive model under dynamic analysis
William Fuentes, Theodoros Triantafyllidis

571 Estimation of floor acceleration spectra for inelastic buildings
Vladimir Vukobratovic, Peter Fajfar

573 Critical aspects in the thermostructural design of liquid rocket engine thrust chambers
Michele Ferraiuolo, Francesco Battista

575 Modeling drying shrinkage of concrete at the meso-level
Petr Havlasek, Milan Jirasek

577 Modeling chemical reactions in elastomers
Shawn Chester

579 Micromorphic continuum stress and strain measures calculated from 3D ellipsoidal DEM simulations on granular media
Richard Regueiro, Boning Zhang, Farhad Shahabi

581 Indirect-BEM model of the dynamic response of a rigid pile embedded in a transversely isotropic half-space
Josue Labaki, Euclides Mesquita, Persio Barros

583 Numerical aspects of non-local viscoplasticity
Maria Lazari, Lorenzo Sanavia, Bernhard A. Schrefler

585 Transferring the laboratory expertise into the MSA4 benchmark
Sara Casciati, Zhicong Chen

587 Feature extraction from 3D point clouds for automatic update of bridge inspection database
Yelda Turkan, Liangyu Tan, Simon Laflamme

589 Modeling weathering effects in calcarenite rocks by means of plasticity with generalized hardening
Claudio Tamagnini, Matteo Oryem Ciantia, José Antonio Fernández-Merodo

591 The effect of partial distributed damage on the progressive collapse mechanisms and collapse loads of high-rise steel buildings
Jenny Sideri, Simos Gerasimidis, George Deodatis

593 Lattice modeling of hydraulic fracture
Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot, Vincent Lefort, David Gregoire

597 Simulating the multiphysics of the intervertebral disc and the likely implications of disc cell nutrition in disc degeneration
Jerome Noailly, Carlos Ruiz Wills, Andrea Malandrino

599 Simulation of higher-order stochastic processes: the polyspectral representation method
Michael Shields, Hwanpyo Kim

601 Avalanche and chaotic flow in sheared granular materials
Jonathan Bares, DengMing Wang, Dong Wang, Robert Behringer

603 Molecular modeling of interlayer swelling in na-montmorillonite
Dinesh Katti, Kalpana Katti

605 A comprehensive analysis of fracture and self-healing in asphalt binder
Yue Hou, Linbing Wang, Wenjuan Sun

607 Semi-active control of MRE smart isolators based on model reference MCS adaptive algorithm
Ping Zhang, Lizhi Sun

609 Experimental and modeling study of the resistance of portland limestone mortar to salt crystallization damage
Michel Badetti, Elizabeth Nadelman, Matthieu Vandamme, Kimberly Kurtis

613 Inferring the properties of fluid-filled fractures using tube waves
Ossian O'Reilly, Eric M. Dunham, Dan Moos

615 Highly elastic sensing skin for mesosurface strain monitoring
Hussam Saleem, Simon Laflamme

617 Micro-scale pore features in idealised granular materials
Adnan Sufian, Adrian Russell, Mohammad Sadaatfar, Nicolas Francois, Andrew Whittle

619 Fabric tensor within ansiotorpic critical state theory: from DEM to continuum
Yannis F. Dafalias, Xiang Song Li

623 System reliability analysis by multi-cut targeted random sampling
Sundar VS, Michael Shields

625 The influence of inertia on the dynamical and segregative behaviours of vibrofluidised granular systems
Christopher Windows-Yule

627 Reflection and transmission of ocean waves by viscoelastic ice covers
Xin Zhao, Hayley Shen

631 Thermomechanical hybrid simulation of an earthquake-fire-earthquake scenario
Catherine Whyte, Kevin Mackie, Giuseppe Abbiati, Bozidar Stojadinovic

633 Probabilistic simulation of triaxial undrained cyclic behavior of soils
Arezoo Sadrinezhad, Kallol Sett, S. I. Hariharan

635 Mullin’s effect: theory and computation
Ali Javili, David Steigmann, Christian Linder

643 Experimental measurement of adsorption-induced strains and stresses in coal
D. Nicolas Espinoza, Matthieu Vandamme, Jean-Michel Pereira, Patrick Dangla

647 Fracture resistance curve for bioinspired multilayered ceramic/polymer composites
Sina Askarinejad, Nima Rahbar

649 Controllability of wetting-induced compaction
Constance Mihalache, Giuseppe Buscarnera

651 Development and numerical investigation of a new predictor-corrector algorithm for force-based hybrid simulation
Bahareh Forouzan, Narutoshi Nakata

655 Computational aspects of electromechanical coupling with application to instabilities of soft dielectrics
Reza Rastak, Ali Javili, Christian Linder

657 Ductile failure of Al6061-T651 in high and low stress triaxiality range
Wei-Yang Lu, Helena Jin

659 Nanoscale visualization of shale kerogenic material
Bolivia Vega, Jeff Gelb, Anthony Kovscek

661 Forward and inverse problems for the standard linear solid viscoelastic model using a mixed displacement-stress finite element formulation
Alireza Pakravan, Craig Newtson

663 Evaluation of nonlinear dynamic behavior of rc buildings by using sobol’ decomposition
Mohammadreza Moradi, Alireza Moradi

665 Multi-objective performance-based design of floor isolation systems
Ioannis Gidaris, Alexandros Taflanidis, Diego Lopez-Garcia, George Mavroeidis

667 Elastic buckling of perforated cold-formed steel beam-columns
Trevor Rabare, Yared Shifferaw

669 Sensing mechanical performance of electrospun scaffolds using finite element computation and digital image correlation
Sofiane Guessasma, Michelle Oyen, Oliver Armitage, Hedi Nouri, Abderrahmane Ayadi, Frederic Roger

671 Shear-flexure-axial force interaction in rectangular concrete columns under AASHTO extreme load event
Ahmed Al-Rahmani, Hayder Rasheed

673 Effective properties of functionally graded material and prediction of elastic properties of photodegraded polymeric films
Chao Zhang, Natalie Waksmanski, Vincent Wheeler, Ernian Pan, Ross E. Larsen

675 Analysis of shear-dominiated reinforced concrete columns and masonry walls using nonlinear truss models
Mohammadreza Moharrami, Ioannis Koutromanos, Marios Panagiotou

677 Confinement modeling in rectangular concrete columns with external FRP and internal steel
Ahmed Al-Rahmani, Hayder Rasheed

683 Micro-textural evolution of organic-rich shale with maturity – insights from micromechanical modeling
Siavash Monfared, Franz-Josef Ulm

687 Cell shape analysis of jammed ellipsoid packings
Fabian Schaller, Sebastian Kapfer, Matthias Schröter, Gary Delaney, Gerd Schröder-Turk

689 A hydro-mechanical lattice approach for modelling hydraulic fracture
Peter Grassl, Caroline Fahy, Domenico Gallipoli, Simon Wheeler

691 Numerical modeling of moisture- and temperature- enhanced fatigue delamination in composites using cohesive elements
Stephen Jimenez, Ravindra Duddu

693 High resolution dual-modal (x-ray and neutron) imaging and 4D (3D + time) synchrotron imaging of multi-phase flow through sand
Felix Kim, Dayakar Penumadu, Jens Gregor, Mike Marsh, Nikolay Kardjilov, Ingo Manke, Xianghui Xiao

695 Isogeometric analysis for dispersion characteristics of metamaterials
Ryan Alberdi, Guodong Zhang, Kapil Khandelwal

697 Investigating micro-mechanics of small-strain elastic shear wave velocity as a metric for evaluating liquefaction resistance
Utkarsh Mital, Jose Andrade

699 A level-set particle splitting procedure for the comminution and fragmentation of granular systems
Keng-Wit Lim, Jose Andrade

701 Computational aspects of growth-induced instabilities with application to biofilms
Berkin Dortdivanlioglu, Ali Javili, Christian Linder

707 On the anisotropy, creep, and damage of shale at nano- to micro-scales
Kane Bennett, Ronaldo Borja

709 Finite element - boundary element coupling algorithms for time and frequency domain dynamic soil-structure interaction problems
Pieter Coulier, Stijn Francois, Geert Lombaert, Geert Degrande

711 Phase field modeling of diffusion and fracture of silicon electrodes in lithium-ion batteries
Xiaoxuan Zhang, Christian Linder

713 Structural evolution of 2D granular solid under shear deformation
Takashi Matsushima, Raphael Blumenfeld

717 A graphical stability analysis for single-actuator real-time hybrid simulation
Rui Botelho, Atabak Etemadi, Richard Christenson

719 Role of salt specific surface in healing processes driven by diffusion and pressure solution
Chloe Arson, Lisanne Douma, Cheng Zhu, Chris Spiers

723 Microvoid elongation and dilation based finite strain continuum damage model for ductile fracture
Ravi Kiran, Kapil Khandelwal

725 A smoothed particle hydrodynamics method for coupled gas-porous media flows
Ryan Hurley, Jose Andrade

727 Optimal design of microlattice materials
Lorenzo Valdevit

729 Debris flow simulation considering material entrainment by depth-integrated particle method
Ni Zhang, Takashi Matsushima

731 Damped vibration of an adhesively bonded stiffened plate with plate-strip stiffeners using static timoshenko beam functions
Naveed Ahmad, Rakesh Kapania

733 Nanomechanics of cement/polymer fiber interfaces
Faezeh Shalchy, Nima Rahbar

735 Development of a geoperidynamics simulation for hydraulic fracture
Jeffrey Johnson, John Edmiston, Tarek Zohdi, David Steigmann

737 Dynamic earthquake rupture simulations on nonplanar faults embedded in 3D geometrically complex, heterogeneous earth models
Kenneth Duru, Eric Dunham

739 Realistic molecular model of mature and immature kerogens in organic-rich shales
Colin Bousige, Franz-Joseph Ulm, Roland Pellenq, Benoit Coasne

741 Topology optimization of multiphase architected media for exceptional energy dissipation
Alireza Asadpoure, Lorenzo Valdevit

745 A stabilized finite element formulation for large deformation poroelasticity models
Andreas Krischok, Christian Linder

747 Experimental and analytical investigations of structural effects of concrete creep under varying load histories
Pieterjan Criel, Robby Caspeele, Stijn Matthys, Luc Taerwe

749 Modeling of micro-earthquakes using coupled flow and geomechanics simulation during hydraulic fracturing operations
Jihoon Kim, Mike Hoversten, Ernest Majer

751 Coupled multiphase flow and geomechanics analysis of the 2011 Lorca earthquake
Birendra Jha, Noah Bechor, Bradford Hager, Ruben Juanes

753 Physical and mechanical properties of bamboo fibers
Sina Youssefian, Nima Rahbar

755 Development of a constitutive formulation for fractured porous media using a geoperidynamic fine scale model
John Edmiston, Jeffrey Johnson, Stefan Finsterle

757 Microscale analysis of geomaterial considering interaction of pore fluids
Ikkoh Tachibana, Shuji Moriguchi, Kenjiro Terada, Takashi Kyoya, Shinsuke Takase, Mayu Muramatsu, Junji Kato

759 Poro-mechanical influences on the leakage from geologic barriers
Antony Patrick Selvadurai

761 Seismic response of waterfront structures on liquefiable soil
Morteza Rahimi Abkenar, Majid Manzari

763 Seismic response of a nuclear fuel assembly: physical and numerical modeling
Morteza Rahimi Abkenar, Majid Manzari, Philippe Bardet, Noah Weichselbaum

765 Stochastic imperfection mode superposition method for stability of single layer lattice dome
Huijuan Liu, Wei Zhang, Lufeng Yang

767 Coupled dissipative particle dynamics and discrete element method simulation on particle sedimentation under vibration toward functionally graded material fabrication
Lingqi Yang, Huiming Yin

769 Inception of strain localization in geo-materials based on a coupled damage-plasticity model
Marta Miletic, Dunja Peric

773 Residual anisotropy in granular pastes produced by repeated shear
Takeshi Ooshida

777 Presentation of two closed formulas to estimate the fundamental period of layered soil profiles
Jose Gomez, Manuel Moran

779 A review on stabilised earth construction for structural applications
Venkatarama Reddy B. V.

785 Simulation of the ground contamination based on a novel three-phase water-NAPL-air pressure-saturation model
Keita Nakamura, Mamoru Kikumoto

787 Nanomaterials obtained by planetary ball mill and their applications in civil engineering
Rabah Hamzaoui, Sofiane Guessasma

789 A new approach for structural health monitoring of offshore jacket platforms by inverse vibration problem
Alireza Lotfi, Kiarash Dolatshahi, Mohammad Hasan Haeri, Aliakbar Golafshani

795 Hybrid simulation of uncertainty contaminated structural systems
Giuseppe Abbiati, Catherine Whyte, Stefano Marelli, Luca Caracoglia, Bozidar Stojadinovic

797 Finite element investigation of two new structural shear fuses in moment resting frames
Pouya Rezazadeh Kalehbasti, Kiarash Dolatshahi, Mohammad Taghi Nikoukalam

799 Residual performance assessment of steel frames through ambient strain-based model update: application to collapse test of steel frame using shake table
Masahiro Kurata, Akiko Suzuki, Xiaofua Li, Hiromichi Nishino, Kaede Minegishi

801 [WITHDRAWN] Towards developing constitutive models for hydro-mechanical behaviour of faults
Marion Thomas, Thibaut Perol, Harsha Bhat, Ares Rosakis, Charles Sammis

803 Safety factors for frictional slips and flow failures in unsaturated soil slopes
Jose Lizarraga, Giuseppe Buscarnera

807 Prototype stabilized earth masonry for affordable tornado-resistant dwellings and safety shelters
Mabel Cuéllar-Azcárate, Fabio Matta, Ece Erdogmus, Esther Obonyo

813 On the stability of fluid-saturated soils during earthquakes
Wolfgang Ehlers, Maik Schenke

815 Inverse transformation for elastodynamic boundary element method: a comparative study
Martin Schanz, Wenjing Ye

817 Simulation of Plastic Zone Propagation around Crack Tips using Generalized Westergaard Stress Functions: A Variational Approach
Ney Dumont, Elvis Mamani

819 Study on the adhesion between asphalt binders and aggregate minerals using particle-modified atomic force probes
Ting Tan, Yujie Li, Jie Yang

823 SPH modelling of pore-scale events during drainage and imbibition cycles
Holger Steeb, Rakulan Sivanesapillai

825 A geometrical approach for interface finite elements on the contact surface between different materials
Georgios Michaloudis, Alexander Konyukhov, Norbert Gebbeken

827 Grainsize effects on the crushing behavior of unsaturated granular solids
Giuseppe Buscarnera, Yida Zhang

829 Memory of colloidal suspension visualized as desiccation crack pattern
Akio Nakahara, Yousuke Matsuo

831 Role of moisture on structure and physical properties of amorphous biopolymers
Jan Carmeliet, Karol Kulasinski, Robert Guyer, Dominique Derome

833 Understanding sorption and swelling with MD and poromechanics
Dominique Derome, Karol Kulasinski, Robert Guyer, Jan Carmeliet

835 Development of dielectric elastomer nanocomposites as stretchable and flexible actuating materials
Yu Wang, Lizhi Sun

837 Modeling the hydromechanical coupling process of fluid-infiltrating solids via the monolithic and operator-splitting arlequin method
WaiChing Sun, Zhijun Cai

843 Meaning of TIJ concept from the viewpoint of Satake’s fabric tensor
Teruo Nakai, Hossain Md. Shahin

845 An evaluation of stresses induced by centrifugal acceleration in a centrifuge test specimen
Mohamed El Ghoraiby, Majid Manzari

847 Multi-axial framework for real-time hybrid simulation and future applications
Gaston Fermandois-Cornejo, Billie Spencer

851 Earthquake response of deformable rocking frames
Michalis Vassiliou, Kevin Mackie, Bozidar Stojadinovic

853 A micromechanical analysis of granular material under shear deformation
Eloise Marteau, Jose Andrade

863 A computational framework for rain erosion prediction in composite wind turbine blades
Behrooz Amirzadeh, Mehdi Raessi, Mazdak Tootkaboni

865 Topology optimization of two-dimensional wave barriers
Cédric Van hoorickx, Mattias Schevenels, Geert Lombaert

867 Physical modeling on performance evaluation of slit-type walls against debris flows
Shin-Kyu Choi, Tae-Hyuk Kwon

869 Aiding design of wave energy convertors via computational simulations
Hejar Jebeli Aqdam, Babak Ahmadi, Mehdi Raessi, Mazdak Tootkaboni

875 Modeling localized failure in high-poroity rocks
Ferdinando Marinelli, Giuseppe Buscarnera

877 An adaptive online identification scheme for a phenomenological hysteretic law
Eleni Chatzi, Manolis Chatzis, Savvas Triantafyllou

883 Modeling of mooring systems in floating offshore wind turbines
Crescenzo Petrone, Nicholas Oliveto, Mettupalayam Sivaselvan

885 Multi-level modeling of hydraulic stimulation using micromechanics and phase-field models
Jithender Timothy, Ildar Khisamitov, Dirk Leonhart, Günther Meschke

889 Inverse characterization from partial-field data using direct inversion with Gappy POD initialization and the adjoint method
Mengyu Wang, John Brigham

891 Pure-friction base-isolation system for masonry buildings: a case study from research to construction
Fariborz M. Tehrani, Goodarz Ahmadi

893 Spatial damage detection and localization using compressive sampling
S. Golnaz Shahidi, Shamim N. Pakzad, Jamie M. Hudson, M. Mohsen Moarefdoost

895 Data-driven modeling of urban solar microgrids
Arda Halu, Marta Gonzalez

897 Determination of the optimal air void content for typical ATPB drainage layer in VA, OK and ID
Yinning Zhang, Wei Zhang, Linbing Wang

903 Application of PEER performance based earthquake engineering methodology to unreinforced masonry buildings
Maryam Tabbakhha, Khalid Mosalam

907 Modeling alkali transport and ASR in concrete pavements
Jithender J. Timothy, Minh. N. Nguyen, Günther Meschke

911 Numerical modeling and large scale experimental validation of saturated soil-foundation-structure interaction
Zahra S. Lotfian, Mettupalayam Sivaselvan

913 Data-driven estimation of transition matrices in Markov Decision Processes for sustainable infrastructure maintenance
Hadi Meidani, Negin Alemazkoor

915 Mechanical, hydraulic and electrical transport properties of sandstone with multiscale lattice boltzmann/finite element simulations on micro-tomographic and DEM-simulated images
WaiChing Sun, Teng-fong Wong, SeonHong Na, Kun Wang, Imer Jasiel del Cid

917 Strains in granular materials based on microstructural kinematics
Mehdi Pouragha, Richard Wan

919 Multiscale transport of adsorbing and nonadsorbing gas through shale as a function of effective stress
Khalid Alnoaimi, Anthony Kovscek

921 Chemo-electro-mechanical modelling of skeletal muscle tissue
Oliver Röhrle, Thomas Heidlauf

923 A constitutive framework for shale based on anisotropic critical state plasticity
Shabnam Jandaghi Semnani, Joshua A. White, Ronaldo I. Borja

925 Relation between specific surface area and soil water retention
Morteza Khorshidi, Ning Lu

927 Kalman filter based vibration monitoring for wireless sensor networks
Roman Klis, Eleni Chatzi

929 Validation of the martlet wireless sensing system through dynamic testing of full-scale reinforced concrete frames
Xinjun Dong, Tim Wright, Dapeng Zhu, Yang Wang, Reginald DesRoches

931 Simulations exploring the effects of sedimentary basins on earthquake cycles
Kali Allison, Brittany Erickson, Eric Dunham

933 Hybrid particle-element simulation of structures under impact loading
Kwon Joong Son, Jong Kyoo Park, Euigyung Jeong, Man Young Lee, Hee Keun Cho, See Jo Kim

935 Substructure location and size effects on decentralized model updating
Xinjun Dong, Dapeng Zhu, Yang Wang

937 [WITHDRAWN] Sand aging: modeling of sand grain surface evolution in a coupled stress and chemical field at micro/nano scale
Zhijie Wang, Radoslaw Michalowski

941 A thermo-elastoplastic constitutive model for unsaturated soils and its numerical implementation
Xiaoyu Song, Ronaldo Borja

945 A mechanistic approach to seismic damage estimation of instrumented building structures using bayesian filtering
Kalil Erazo, Eric Hernandez

947 Crack band approach to complex 3D hydraulic fracturing of gas shale
Zdenek P. Bažant, Viet T. Chau, Yewang Su, Marco Salviato

953 Primary and secondary instabilities affect brain morphology
Silvia Budday, Paul Steinmann, Ellen Kuhl

955 A geometric approach to characterize rigidity of biomolecules
Dominik Budday, Sigrid Leyendecker, Henry van den Bedem

957 Peridynamic modeling of pitting corrosion damage
Ziguang Chen, Florin Bobaru

959 Numerical modeling and in situ vibration measurements during the design and construction of low vibration floors at the nanotechnology laboratory corelab 1b
Stijn François, Geert Lombaert, Geert Degrande

961 Peridynamic modeling of porous materials: wave propagation and mechanical properties
Ziguang Chen, Florin Bobaru

965 Ductile fracture of metallic materials and structures
Amine Benzerga

967 Characterization of type I source rock by pore-scale simulations
Cyprien Soulaine, Nicola Castelletto, Alexandre Lapene, Hamdi Tchelepi

969 Minimum and maximum length scale in high contrast topology optimized designs
Boyan Lazarov

971 Shape optimization of a bowstring truss for transitional bridging
Evan Gerbo, Casey Casias, Ashley Thrall

973 Multi-scale stress usage monitoring from global acceleration measurements: an experimental validation
Néstor Polanco, Eric Hernandez

975 Quantification of aggregate morphologic characteristics with improved FTI system
Yufeng Liu, Wenjuan Sun, Harikrishnan Nair, D. Stephen Lane, Linbing Wang

977 Image-based modeling of flow into and through proppant-filled fractures under variable stress
Clinton Willson, Paula Sanematsu, Yijie Shen, Karsten Thompson

979 Minimally-invasive multimodal surface wave (MMSW) methods: from theoretical demonstration to experimental validation
Jeramy Ashlock, Shibin Lin

983 Drying-induced cavitaiton in a constrained hydrogel
Shengqiang Cai

987 Analytical and numerical studies of the composite action in built-up cold-formed steel members with intermittent fasteners
David C. Fratamico, Benjamin W. Schafer

991 An evaluation of triple friction pendulum bearing for high-rise structure
Benshun Shao, Mahin Steven

993 A microplane model for fracturing damage of 3D braided composites
Marco Salviato, Weixin Li, Gianluca Cusatis, Zdenek P. Bažant

995 Fracture of an elastic coating on an elastoplastic cylinder under a tensile load
Xin He, Fangliang Chen, Huiming Yin

997 Origami-inspired metamaterials and structures: analysis and mechanical properties
Maryam Eidini, Glaucio Paulino

1001 Comparison of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions between conventional concrete masonry units and new masonry alternatives
Joseph Dahmen, Jose F. Muñoz

1003 Optimization of cold-formed steel cross sectional shapes using charged system search (CSS)
Babak Ahmadi, Mazdak Tootkaboni

1005 Experimental characterization and multiscale modeling on Al-HDPE functionally graded materials
Fangliang Chen, Yingjie Liu, Xin He, Huiming Yin

1007 Performance-based assessment of a reinforced concrete bridge with bucking restrained braces
Yuandong Wang, Luis Ibarra

1009 Thermodynamics analysis of carbon dioxide behavior in hydraulic fracturing
Solomon Alfa

1011 3D level set discrete element method with triaxial case study
Reid Kawamoto, Jose Andrade

1013 System-level vibration testing of mechanical equipment using real-time hybrid sub-structuring using a 6-degree-of-freedom shake table
Joseph Franco, Rui Botelho, Richard Christenson

1017 Mechanics of collagen molecule of osteogenesis imperfecta origin: experiments and modeling
Kalpana Katti, Dinesh Katti, Md. Reza Parsa, Chunju Gu

1019 Experimental and numerical analysis of intra- and inter-laminar size effect in composite materials
Kedar Kirane, Marco Salviato, Zdenek P. Bažant, Gianluca Cusatis

1023 Quadratic partial eigenvalue assignment for large-scale stochastic dynamic systems
Kundan Goswami, Sonjoy Das, Biswa N. Datta

1025 The physical origins of thermal properties of cement paste
Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini Qomi, Franz-Josef Ulm, Roland Pellenq

1027 Properties of granular materials with capillary cohesion: DEM results
Saeed Khamseh, Vinh Du Than, Anh Minh Tang, Jean-Michel Pereira, François Chevoir, Jean-Noel Roux

1029 Displacement-based design and nonlinear analysis of bridges with rocking foundations and plastic hinges at the top of the columns
Andreas G. Gavras, Grigorios Antonellis, Marios Panagiotou, Bruce L. Kutter

1035 Multi-scale fracture simulation for a welded steel plate under cyclic loads and corrosion
Hao Yuan, Wei Zhang, Jeong-Ho Kim

1039 Performance and response analysis of a seismically isolated building during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, Japan
Masaru Kikuchi, Toshihide Kashima, Kyo Fukuda

1041 Stochastic morphological simulation based on partial statistical description of polycrystals
Nicolas Venkovic, Kirubel Teferra, Lori Graham-Brady

1043 Simulation of nano-pore structure of shale formations for flow analysis
Pengwei Zhang, Liming Hu, Jay Meegoda

1045 Vertical accelerations in pendulum-type isolation systems: fundamentally necessary yet potentially destructive
Philip Scott Harvey

1047 System reliability based design optimization of structures constrained by first passage probability
Junho Chun, Junho Song, Glaucio Paulino

1049 Parametrization in numerical bifurcation analysis and its application to geomaterial models
Qiushi Chen, Alejandro Mota

1053 Simulation of micro-pore structure of soils for flow analysis
Shengyan Gao, Jay Meegoda, Liming Hu, Pengwei Zhang

1059 Higher order continuum model based upon granular micromechanics
Anil Misra, Payam Poorsolhjouy

1061 Micro-macro insights to failure of cementitious materials using granular micromechanics model
Payam Poorsolhjouy, Anil Misra

1065 Bayesian ascent method for data-driven control: application to cooperative wind farm power maximization
Jinkyoo Park, Kincho Law

1067 Analytical model for lead-rubber bearings considering heat conduction
Ippei Tsunezawa, Masaru Kikuchi, Takahito Nakamura

1069 Validation and application of fully-coupled finite element hydraulic fracture models
Matias Zielonka, Kevin Searles, Jorge Garzon, Jing Ning, Nikolay Kostov, Pablo Sanz

1071 Sparse estimation performance for wireless structural control
Lauren Linderman

1075 A thermoplasticity model for oilshale
Joshua White, Alan Burnham, David Camp, Shabnam Semnani

1079 Multi-scale modeling for effective electrical conductivity of a carbon nanotube/polymer composite containing chain-structured ferromagnetic particles for strain sensing
Sung-Hwan Jang, Huiming Yin

1081 Mechanics and its applications for design of geossynthetic-reinforced roads
Jie Han

1083 A novel compensation technique for real-time hybrid simulation
Wei Song, Saeid Hayati

1085 A new paradigm for modeling fault zone inelasticity: a coupled granular-bulk framework incorporating spontaneous localization and grain fragmentation
Ahmed Elbanna

1087 A novel finite element model updating method considering environmental conditions
Wei Song, Shanglian Zhou

1089 Elastic wave assessments of thermal protection systems with linear and nonlinear waveguides
Dryver Huston, Jonathan Razinger, Stephen Pearson

1091 Crack propagation in fibrillar collagen nano-composites: role of polymeric interfaces with sacrificial bonds and hidden length
Wenyi Wang, Qianli Chen, Ahmed Elbanna

1095 Modeling viscoelastic deformation and fracture damage of asphalt mixtures
Francisco Aragao, Diego Hartmann, Abraham Pazos, Yong-Rak Kim

1097 Robustness of hybrid MPC controllable damper strategies
Wael Elhaddad, Erik Johnson, Steve Wojtkiewicz

1099 Optimization of structural bracing systems for tall buildings subject to stochastic excitation
Mu Zhu, Yang Yang, James Guest, Michael Shields

1101 Integrating probabilistic performance-based design into topology optimization for the conceptual design of structures
Sarah Bobby, Seymour M.J. Spence, Ahsan Kareem

1103 Vulnerability assessment of transmission towers under strong wind
Huawei Niu, Huijuan Liu, Jin Zhu, Wei Zhang

1105 Assessing joint coastal wind and flood hazard in the U.S. northeastern regions
Jin Zhu, Wei Zhang

1107 Learning-based control design for smart damping systems
Elham Hemmat-Abiri, Wael Elhaddad, Erik Johnson, Steve Wojtkiewicz

1109 Gain-scheduled structural control for life safety and serviceability
Elham Hemmat-Abiri, Erik Johnson

1111 Accuracy comparison of numerical integration algorithms for real-time hybrid simulations
Ganesh Reddy, Yunbyeong Chae

1113 Calibrating a viscoelastic model for gray and white matter brain tissue by nanoindentation
Rijk De Rooij, Silvia Budday, Richard Nay, Paul Steinmann, Thomas Wyrobek, Timothy Ovaert, Ellen Kuhl

1115 Effect of rotation on the horizontal behavior of rubber isolators
Saman Rastgoo Moghadam, Dimitrios Konstantinidis

1117 The AVV approach for system level reliability based design optimization of large scale uncertain and dynamic systems
Seymour M.J. Spence

1119 Performance-based wind and wave analysis of offshore wind turbine structures under hurricane metocean environments of united states east coast
Kai Wei, Sanjay Arwade, Andrew Myers

1123 Towards sustainable roads: mechanistic PVI models and network data analysis
Arghavan Louhghalam, Mehdi Akbarian, Franz-Josef Ulm

1127 An innovative sampling technique to predict damage evolution
Jeremy Lea, Rongzong Wu

1129 Distributed robust control for physical infrastructure networks
Qin Ba, Ketan Savla

1131 Quantum walks in fractional diffusion processes
Yan Wang

1133 Updating structural models using subspace system identification based on bayesian probabilistic framework
Seung-Keun Park, Hae Young Noh

1137 Bridging atomistic and continuum computational models for shear localization and failure in metallic glasses
Adam Hinkle, Michael Shields, Michael Falk, Chris Rycroft

1139 A vision-based approach for obtaining the time-varying displacement field of vibrating systems
Yulu Chen, Mohamed Abdelbarr, Mohammad Jahanshahi, Sami Masri

1141 Dynamic properties of tire-derived aggregate concrete
Nazmieh Masswadi, Nathan Miller, Fariborz Tehrani

1147 Resilience of infrastructure systems through coupled energy harvesting and sensing network for bridge infrastructure
Marcus Rutner

1149 Scattering of plane SV wave by wedge-shaped topographic features
Kami Mohammadi, Domniki Asimaki

1155 Effects of particle shape and contact law on the low-strain stiffness of granular media
Mourad Zeghal, Chrysovalantis Tsigginos

1159 Bioinspired mechanics of reinforced thin rod buckling in elastic medium
Wanliang Shan, Amir Mohammadi Nasab

1161 A weighted Nitsche stabilized method for small-sliding contact on frictional surfaces
Chandrasekhar Annavarapu, Randolph Settgast, Scott Johnson, Pengcheng Fu, Eric Herbold

1165 Static and dynamic response of a semi-infinite porous material under a surface load
Gan Song, Huiming Yin

1167 Real-time hybrid simulation of base-isolation bearings with mixed force and displacement control
Richard Erb, Matthew Stehman, Narutoshi Nakata

1171 A Gaussian process model based on the wavelet transform for earthquake damage detection
Konstantinos Balafas, Ram Rajagopal, Anne Kiremidjian

1175 Smoothening creases on surfaces of strain-stiffening materials
Lihua Jin, Zhigang Suo

1177 Load assessment of highway bridges using integrated SHM and WIMS data
Jerome Lynch, Yilan Zhang, Mohammed Ettouney

1181 Development of 3D particle method for calculating large deformation of soils
Sung-Sik Park, Han Chang, Sung-Ryol Ye

1183 Relating pore morphology and hysteresis in capillary dominated fluid flow in granular media
Adrian Sheppard, Dorthe Wildenschild, Anna Herring, Linnea Andersson, Vanessa Robins

1187 When stochastic simulations meet importance sampling: reliability evaluation of wind power systems
Eunshin Byon, Youngjun Choe

1189 Computational modeling of corrosive dissolution using the combined extended finite element and level set method
Ravindra Duddu, Nithyanandan Kota, Siddiq Qidwai

1191 Coupled flow and geomechanical modeling of fluid production and injection in the cavone oil field, northern italy: an assessment of the potential for induced seismicity
Birendra Jha, Andreas Plesch, John Shaw, Bradford Hager, Ruben Juanes

1193 A unified model for metal failure capturing shear banding and fracture
Colin McAuliffe, Haim Waisman

1197 Application of acoustic emission and data mining for damage detection in power plants
Alireza Farhidzadeh, Obdulia Lay, David Sinay, Richard Gostautas

1199 From discrete models with rotational degrees of freedom to cosserat continuum through mathematical homogenization
Roozbeh Rezakhani, Gianluca Cusatis

1201 Nanoscale ordering in conventional and alternative cementitious materials
Claire White

1205 A compressive sensing based framework for evolutionary power spectrum estimation subject to missing data
Liam Comerford, Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou, Michael Beer

1207 Blind identification of nonlinear civil structures using sparse seismic response data
Rodrigo Astroza, Hamed Ebrahimian, Joel P. Conte

1209 Quantifying the impact of granular fabric on the constitutive relationship
Xia Li, Benjamin Roullier

1211 Framework for structure health monitoring using aerial images
Hyungchul Yoon, Billie Spencer

1217 Simulation of 3-D hydraulic fracture propagation and interactions
C. Armando Duarte, Piyush Gupta

1221 Evaluation of the ASCE 43-05 approximate method for estimating the peak response of rocking objects in nuclear facilities
Amitabh Dar, Dimitrios Konstantinidis, Wael El-Dakhakhni

1223 Topology optimization for additive manufacturing
Andrew Gaynor, James Guest

1225 Prediction of effective thermal conductivity of asphalt concrete using a multi-scale simulation approach
Hao Wang, Jiaqi Chen, Liang Li

1231 Practice-oriented seismic response analysis for risk-based decision making
Matjaz Dolsek, Marko Brozovic

1233 Response surface analysis of blast performance for predicting vulnerability of critical infrastructure
David A. Vaccari, Marcus P. Rutner

1235 Optimization for structural performance and energy usage in conceptual building design
Nathan Brown, Caitlin Mueller

1237 Path integral solution for nonlinear systems under parametric Poissonian white noise input
Mario Di Paola, Antonina Pirrotta, Alberto Di Matteo

1241 Dynamic shear rheometer test simulation of foaming asphalt binder using discrete element method (DEM)
Xu Yang, Zhanping You

1243 System effects in wood-sheathed cold-formed steel shear walls
Aritra Chatterjee, Guanbo Biang, Hung Ngo, Yibing Xiang, Cris Moen, Sanjay Arwade, Ben Schafer

1245 Influences of micro parameters on macro mechanical behaviors of brittle material simulated with bonded particles
Shunying Ji

1247 Potentials, pressures and effective stresses in unsaturated porous media: conception and formulation
Changfu Wei

1249 Simulation-based system reliability for design
Aritra Chatterjee, Yibing Xiang, Cris Moen, Sanjay Arwade, Ben Schafer

1253 Effects of bimodal hydraulic properties on suction stress and slope stability analysis
Fabio Ciervo, Francesca Casini, Vicente Medina, Maria Nicolina Papa, Riccardo Rigon

1255 Nonlinear dynamics and bifurcation behavior in dispersed granular gas systems
Y Li, R Liu, Meiying Hou

1259 Considering the impact of unsaturated conditions below the phreatic surface on pore pressure propagation and soil deformation dynamics
Héctor Montenegro, Oliver Stelzer, Bernhard Odenwald

1263 The future of rock physics: imaging and computing for subsurface characterization, simulation, and monitoring
Amos Nur

1265 Assessment of rainfall-triggered shallow landsliding by using physically based model of hillslope stability
Ananta Man Singh Pradhan, Hyo-Sub Kang, Ji-Sung Lee, Yun-Tae Kim

1267 Over-fitting in constitutive model calibration and the effects on fracture predictions
Ryan Cooke, Amit Kanvinde

1273 Seismic vulnerability column splices in pre-northridge steel moment frames
Amit Kanvinde, Carmine Galasso, Kimberly Stillmaker

1277 Concrete Under the Nanoscope: Comibinatorial Optimization in Dual-Defect Framework
Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini Qomi, Franz-Josef Ulm, Roland Pellenq

1281 Monitoring and evaluation of performance of thin-bonded overlay for protection of bridge decks
Benjamin Gallaher, Yunping Xi

1283 Rayleigh wave ground motion by SDSCD scheme on basin model
Yiqiong Li, Yanxiang Yu

1285 Deterministic and probabilistic assessment of the seismic performance of rocking behavior under near-fault excitations
Elias Dimitrakopoulos

1287 Study of seismic diffraction wave caused by a fracture zone at insalah carbon dioxide storage project
Rui Zhang, Donald Vasco, Thomas Dalay

1289 [WITHDRAWN] Multi-scale X-FEM faults simulations for reservois-geomechanical models
N. Sukumar, Jean H. Prevost

1291 Maxwell’s concept of equivalent inhomogeneity- revisited
Sonia Mogilevskaya, Dmitry Nikolskiy

1293 isogeometric dynamic-data-driven analysis of fatigue damage in wind turbine blades
Artem Korobenko, Xiaowei Deng, Jinhui Yan, Yuri Bazilevs

1295 Application of impediographic tomography to damage detection of metallic structures
Liuxian Zhao, Jie Yang, Fabio Semperlotti

1297 CFD simulation based evaluation of the effects of bridge pier streamlining on alleviating local scour
Junliang Tao, Junhong Li

1301 Internal strain prediction of full scale and small scale concrete members due to creep and shrinkage effects
Nicky Reybrouck, Bernhard Krug, Alfred Strauss, Robby Caspeele, Luc Taerwe

1303 Characterizing properties and crack initiation in the interfacial transition zones in recycled concrete
Wengui Li, Zhihui Sun

1305 Simultaneous identification of structural parameters and vehicle axle loads of the vehicle-bridge interaction system
Dongming Feng, Maria Feng, Hao Sun

1307 Output-only damage detection using vehicle-induced displacement response and mode shape curvature index
Dongming Feng, Maria Feng

1309 Nanostructure of high-temperature cured oilwell cements
Jeffrey Thomas, Konrad Krakowiak, Andrew Allen

1311 Computational free-surface-flow-structure interaction with applications to offshore wind turbines
Jinhui Yan, Artem Korobenko, Xiaowei Deng, Yuri Bazilevs

1313 Progressive collapse vulnerability of 3D high rise steel buildings under external blast loading
Jenny Sideri, Christopher Mullen, Simos Gerasimidis, George Deodatis

1315 Expansive clays and Tezaghi effective stress
David Mašín

1317 Geomechanics of woodford shale at the nano/micro-scale
Younane Abousleiman, Katherine Hull, Ghaithan Muntasheri, David Frazer, Peter Hosemann

1319 Reduced order modeling approaches for soil structure interaction problems
Elnaz Esmaeilzadeh Seylabi, Ertugrul Taciroglu

1325 Combined effect of carbonation and chloride ingress in concrete
Goangseup Zi, Xingji Zhu

1327 A lattice Boltzmann approach for wet-dry boundary treatment in shallow water
Haifei Liu, Jie Zhang

1335 Centrifuge modelling of granular flows immersed in a viscous fluid: flow characteristics and impact forces
Miguel Angel Cabrera, Wei Wu

1337 Stability analysis and failure simulation of slope with SPH
Chong Peng, Wei Wu, Haisui Yu

1339 Numerical analyses of vegetated slopes subjected to rainfall
Barbara Maria Switala, Roberto Tamagnini, Wei Wu

1341 [WITHDRAWN] An elastic-viscoplastic crystal plasticity modeling for plane strain deformation of pure magnesium
Weidong Song, Yuanchao Gan

1343 Mechanisms of deformation of porous rocks at the pore scale
Martin Tjioe, Ronaldo Borja

1345 The mechanics of obstruction in chronic lung disease
Mona Eskandari, Ellen Kuhl

1347 Insights into C–S–H aging from rigidity theory
Bu Wang, Yingtian Yu, Dawei Zhang, Mathieu Bauchy

1349 State of soil density influenced by particle size distribution
Ching Chang

1351 A computational framework for regional seismic simulation of buildings with multiple fidelity models
Zhen Xu, Xinzheng Lu, Kincho Law

1353 Continuum-mechanical modelling and numerical simulation of multi-component biological tissues
Arndt Wagner, Wolfgang Ehlers

1355 Creep of water-saturated nanometric slit pores: application to cement
Matthieu Vandamme, Zdenek Bazant, Sinan Keten

1359 Numerical investigation of hydrogen sulfide transfer in unsaturated amended-soil considering chemical reaction process
Mengyao Xie, Charles Wang Wai Ng

1361 Probabilistic approach for prediction of fatigue crack growth for viscoelastic material
Goangseup Zi, Seung-Jung Lee

1363 Study of the expansion of cementitious materials in presence of sulfate ions
Nam Nghia Bui, Matthieu Vandamme, Jean-Michel Pereira, Rémi Barbarulo

1367 Application of an Abaqus-PANDAS software for the simulation of coupled multi-field problems
Maik Schenke, Wolfgang Ehlers

1369 What can discrete network models tell us about the (visco-)elasticity of biopolymers?
Erik Van der Giessen

1371 Colloidal simulations of C-S-H precipitation: a coarse-grained Transition State Theory approach
Igor Shvab, Enrico Masoero

1373 Analytical insights in the micromechanics of unsaturated granular materials
Jerome Duriez, Richard Wan

1379 Initiation of flow liquefaction in saturated sand with the presence of initial shear stress
L.B. Liang, J. Yang

1381 Modeling concepts for bonded anchors
Marco Marcon, Jan Vorel, Roman Wendner

1383 Analysis of anchor pull-out tests by discrete particle models
Roman Wendner, Marco Marcon, Jan Vorel

1385 Comparison of concrete models based on a large collection of tests
Jan Vorel, Marco Marcon, Gianluca Cusatis, Roman Wendner

1387 Time dependent failure loads of anchors - influence of creep, shrinkage and ageing
Roman Wendner, Giannis Boumakis, Lin Wan, Marco Marcon

1395 Finite element metamodeling for nonlinear systems with uncertain properties
Minas Spiridonakos, Dimitrios Giagopoulos, Eleni Chatzi, Vasileios Ntertimanis

1399 Graphic statics, graphical kinematics, and the geometry of equilibrium
Toby Mitchell

1401 Resiliency of a community of buildings to fire following earthquake
Thomas Gernay, Negar Elhami Khorasani, Maria Garlock

1403 Cement flow is not just smooth anymore. Insight from the physics of jamming.
Henri Van Damme, Sidney Yip

1405 Uncertainty in modal identification of structures with known and unknown input excitations
Ching-Tai Ng, Siu-Kui Au

1407 Effects of joint properties and geometry on fractured rock strength using the distinct element method
Benjamin Roullier, Paul Langston, Xia Li

1413 Modeling of hydraulic fracture in quasi-brittle rocks
Yao Yao, Lu Liu, Leon Keer

1415 Advanced ground motion simulation capabilities developed using a software integration approach
Philip Maechling, Fabio Silva, Scott Callaghan, Kevin Milner, David Gill, Thomas Jordan

1419 Thermodynamics of calcium silicate hydrates in their solutions. From equilibrium to kinetics
Patrick Dangla, Antoine Morandeau

1421 Wetting-collapse of a loose sand studied by x-ray tomography
Jean-François Bruchon, Jean-Michel Pereira, Matthieu Vandamme, Nicolas Lenoir, Pierre Delage, Michel Bornert

1423 Intelligent identification of the lattice discrete particle model (LDPM) parameters
Mohammed Alnaggar, Gianluca Cusatis

1425 Weighted T-spline and its application in reparameterizing trimmed NURBS surfaces
Jessica Zhang

1427 Micromechanical analysis of granular ratcheting behind a retaining wall
Nejib Hadda, Richard Wan

1435 Topological origin of fracture toughness in silicates materials
Mathieu Bauchy, Yingtian Yu, Bu Wang

1439 Utilization of smartphone sensors for structural health monitoring
Ekin Ozer, Maria Feng

1441 Numerical simulation of wave propagation over vegetated platform
Xuebin Chen, Qin Jim Chen, Jiemin Zhan

1443 An approach to detecting the characteristics of different pore fluids in soils based on the NMR technique
Pan Chen, Changfu Wei, Huihui Tian

1449 An immersogeometric variational framework for CFD and FSI with application to aortic valves
Ming-Chen Hsu, David Kamensky, Michael C. H. Wu, Fei Xu, Vasco Varduhn, Dominik Schillinger

1451 Small-strain shear modulus for unsaturated soils
Yi Dong, Ning Lu

1455 The influence of cracking vs. temperature on dynamic characteristics of reinforced concrete structures
Edwin Reynders, Patrizia Moretti, Kristof De Wilder, Guido De Roeck

1457 Rocking of rigid blocks on nonlinear elastic foundation
Alberto Di Matteo, Antonina Pirrotta, Pol Spanos

1461 An isogeometric method for nearly-incompressible elasticity with local stress projection
Pablo Antolin, Annalisa Buffa, Giancarlo Sangalli

1467 Analysis of pore scale processes in geo-materials: perspectives on multi-scale and time-resolved 3D imaging
Tom Bultreys, Jan Dewanckele, Hannelore Derluyn, Marijn .A. Boone, Tim De Kock, Wesley De Boever, Jeroen Van Stappen, Thomas De Schrijver, Matthieu N. Boone, Bert Masschaele, Luc Van Hoorebeke, Veerle Cnudde

1469 Coupling microporomechanics and multiscale systems biology for computer simulation-based prediction of bone remodeling
Stefan Scheiner, Maria Pastrama, Peter Pivonka, Christian Hellmich

1471 An electrokinetic model for monitoring CO2 geosequestration
Rafid Al-Khoury, Mehdi Musivand Arzanfudi

1479 Resiliency framework for long span bridges to extreme loads
Shalva Marjanishvili

1481 Dual-porosity and dual-permeability poroelastic integrity analysis of naturally fractured shale in CO2 sequestration operations
Amin Mehrabian, Younane Abousleiman

1483 Instability of medium dense sand under drained and undrained biaxial test
Mousumi Mukherjee, Anurag Gupta, Amit Prashant

1485 Effects of vacancies and inclusions in the mechanical properties of silicene
Ruth E. Roman, Steven W. Cranford

1489 Weakly enforced boundary & coupling constraints for isogeometric rotation-free thin shells
Martin Ruess, Yujie Guo

1493 Strength anisotropy in circular-particle deposits
Rui Wang, Pengcheng Fu, Zhaoxia Tong, Jian-Min Zhang, Yannis Dafalias

1495 Fabric dependent poroelasticity
Stephen Cowijn, Luis Cardoso

1497 Collapse behavior of steel columns as part of steel frame buildings: experiments, loading protocols and numerical models
Yusuke Suzuki, Ahmed Elkady, Dimitrios Lignos

1499 Experimental and simulation analysis of geothermal heat pump system
Chanjuan Han, Xiong Yu

1501 Analytical studies of prestressed stayed columns with multiple cross-arms
Jialiang Yu, M. Ahmer Wadee

1503 Micro-poro-elasticity of baghdadite scaffolds:a unifying approach based on ultrasonics, nanoindentation, and homogenization theory
Hawraa Kariem, Maria-Ioana Pastrama, Seyed-Iman Roohani-Esfahani, Peter Pivonka, Hala Zreiqat, Christian Hellmich

1505 The H-version of the method of auxiliary mapping for higher order solutions of crack problems
Maurizio Chiaramonte, Yongxing Shen, Adrian Lew

1507 An enhanced local pressure model for three-dimensional simulation of hydraulic fracturing
Ernst Remij, Joris Remmers, Jacques Huyghe, David Smeulders

1509 A new procedure to compute singular elastic solutions in anisotropic bimaterial corners in the presence of frictional contact
Vladislav Mantic, Alberto Barroso

1511 Modeling mechanical force transmission via actin stress fibers
Cecile Gouget, Yongyun Hwang, Abdul Barakat

1513 Early-age short-term creep characterization of cement pastes and mortars
Mohammad Irfan-ul-Hassan, Bernhard Pichler, Roland Reihsner, Christian Hellmich

1515 The influence of damping in seismic isolated nuclear power plants
Maria Rosaria Marsico, James M. Kelly

1517 [WITHDRAWN] Mathematical modeling of hybrid biomedical imaging by mechanic perturbation
Laurent Seppecher

1521 Creep of concrete: re-conciliation of rheological chain models and recent micromechanics approaches
Mehran Shahidi, Roman Wendner, Bernhard Pichler, Christian Hellmich

1523 Wave interaction with vegetation: a canopy scale large eddy simulation investigation
Agnimitro Chakrabarti, Qin Jim Chen

1525 Characterization of fracture energy dissipation mechanisms in fiber reinforced ultra high performance concrete
Lauren Flanders, Dimitry Loshkov, Eric Landis

1527 Ground motion characteristics and scaling: how far can intensity measures go?
Dimitrios Vamvatsikos, Athanasia Kazantzi, Agathoklis Giaralis

1529 The inverse medium problem in three-dimensional PML-truncated elastic media
Arash Fathi, Loukas Kallivokas

1531 The meso-scale texture and mechanics of cement hydrates
Emanuela Del Gado, Enrico Masoero, Katerina Ioannidou, Pierre Levitz, Mathieu Bauchy, Hamlin Jennings, Sidney Yip, Roland Pellenq, Framz-Josef Ulm

1533 Maximization of pore-fluid motions in poroelastic formations for wave-based enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
Chanseok Jeong, Loukas Kallivokas, Chun Huh, Larry Lake

1535 [WITHDRAWN] Detection of visually undetectable micro-cracks from macro-scale response: a validation on 3D printed parts
Sourish Chakravarty, Sonjoy Das, Chi Zhou

1537 An integrated approach for the study of topographic effects in seismic wave amplification
Babak Poursartip, Loukas F. Kallivokas

1539 Dr. Masao Satake Symposium: Opening remarks on his life and legacy
James T. Jenkins, Yoshio Tobita, Fusao Oka, Teruo Nakai, Hayley H. Shen, Stephen C. Cowin, Matthew R. Kuhn

1541 GEOS: A high performance computing collaboration platform for geoscience applications
Pengcheng Fu, Randolph Settgast, Scott Johnson, Stuart Walsh, Yue Hao, Joseph Morris, Frederick Ryerson, Tarabay Antoun

1543 Effects of plant flexibility and turbulence closures on drag coefficients
Ling Zhu, Qin Chen, Don Liu

1545 The specific interfacial area, saturation and capillary pressure relationship: do the porous network properties matter?
Ehsan Nikooee, S. Majid Hassanizadeh

1547 A molecular dynamics study on wettability alteration of calcite nanopores by crude oil’s polar components
Mohammad Sedghi, Mohammad Piri, Lamia Goual

1549 Pore-scale investigation of wettability and spontaneous imbibition in shale
Soheil Saraji, Morteza Akbarabadi, Mohammad Piri

1551 Buckling analysis of mindlin plates with internal cutouts by the moving least square element method
Yang Xiang

1553 Numerical methods for fluid-structure interaction using universal meshes
Evan Gawlik, Adrian Lew

1555 An unscented kalman filter with a decreased sigma points set size for dynamic nonlinear structural system identification
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Andrew Smyth

1561 The practice of topology optimization: how new typologies are changing design
David Shook, Mark Sarkisian

1565 Effects of wetting and drying on small strain behaviour of an unsaturated soil
Jie Xu

1567 Influence of beam-column parameter interdependency on SDOF based damage mapping in blast impact region of a high-rise steel building
Chris Mullen, Jenny Sideri, Simos Gerasimidis, George Deodatis

1571 Isogeometric treatment of nonlinear gradient elasticity for modeling mechano-chemically driven phase transformations
Shiva Rudraraju, Anton van der Ven, Krishna Garikipati

1577 Seismic analysis of long-span bridges considering dynamic coupled interactions with wind and stochastic traffic
Yufen Zhou, Suren Chen

1579 Nonlinear dynamic simulation of cable breakage events on long-span cable-stayed bridges under stochastic traffic and wind
Yufen Zhou, Suren Chen

1581 Phase-field models and immersed domain finite elements for fracture simulations in complex image based geometries
Dominik Schillinger, Lam H. Nguyen, Vasco Varduhn

1583 Surfactant-Assisted Synthesis of Cubic, Rectangular, and Rhombohedra Calcium-Silicate-Hydrates
Rouzbeh Shahsavari

1585 Impact of computational choices on estimated structural collapse capacity under earthquake ground motions
Reagan Chandramohan, Jack Baker, Greg Deierlein

1589 Dynamic electromechanical response of PZT in the morphotropic phase boundary
Leslie Lamberson

1597 Characterizing fault rupture for kinematic simulation of shallow crustal earthquakes
Robert Graves

1599 Finite element methods for thermal fracture simulation in deep underground injection processes
Shunde Yin

1601 Performance metrics and indicators for resource allocation in sustainable urban infrastructure system
Ruda Zhang, Roger Ghanem

1603 Simulation of shrinkage-induced cracking of FRC in the restrained ring test
Jingu Kang, Yaming Pan, Armando Prado, John Bolander

1607 Structural response estimation of a tall building using CyberShake ground motions
Nenad Bijelić, Ting Lin, Gregory Deierlein

1609 Improved intensity measures for estimation of the risk of building collapse
Eduardo Miranda, Laura Eads, Dimitrios Lignos

1619 Mechanical properties of portland cement and its constituents at the nano-level
Brent French, Ahmed Al-ostaz, Hunain Alkhateb, Alexander Cheng

1635 Indentation: a simple and nondestructive method for characterizing the mechanical and transport properties of gels
Yuhang Hu

1641 PBEE for unreinforced masonry structures
Katrin Beyer

1647 Transient solid dynamics on linear tetrahedral finite elements using a variational multi-scale approach
Guglielmo Scovazzi, Brian Carnes, Xianyi Zeng

1649 Double lap shear behavior of brick-mortar interfaces: a lattice analysis of the triplet test
Amir Mohammadipour, Reza Mousavi, Hanie Joodat, Kaspar Willam

1651 Effect of lode angle and stress triaxiality on the behavior of steel and aluminum
Reza Mousavi, Elena Bombasaro, Hanie Joodat, Amir Mohammadipour, Kaspar Willam

1653 Characterization of metal objects using polarizability tensor
Paul Ledger, William Lionheart

1655 Modeling and seismic response comparison of california high-speed rail prototype bridge with and without seismic isolation
Yong Li, Joel Conte

1657 Discrete-time filter approach for performance-based seismic assessment of inelastic structures subject to soil-structure interaction effects
Richard Gash, Elnaz Esmaeilzadeh Seylabi, Ertugrul Taciroglu

1659 Universal meshes for domains with corners
Kyuwon Kim, Adrian Lew

1661 Universal meshes for the simulation of hydraulic fracture
Adrian Lew

1663 Estimation of acceleration demands and capacities of nonstructural components in buildings
Ricardo Medina

1665 Dynamic earthquake performance formulation with sustainability impacts
Anirudh Rao, Michael Lepech, Anne Kiremidjian

1667 A performance-based engineering perspective on near-collapse response of RC structures
Mehrdad Sasani

1669 Topological characterisation of pore deformation in dense granular packings and geomaterials
Mohammad Saadatfar, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Maryam Hanifpour, Yasuaki Hiraoka, Nicolas Francois, Vanessa Robins

1671 Life cycle management demonstrated on the example of a parking garage
Christoph Gehlen, Gesa Kapteina, Angelika Schiessl-Pecka, Till Felix Mayer

1673 Chloride transport in repaired concrete structural elements
Christoph Gehlen, Amir Rahimi, Thorsten Reschke, Andreas Westendarp

1677 A symplectic hamiltonian approach for thermal buckling of cylindrical shells
C.W. Lim, Xinsheng Xu

1679 Analytical modelling of the interplay of local and overall buckling in thin walled sandwich struts
Stylianos Yiatros, Orestes Marangos, Christodoulos Georgiou

1681 A method and aparatus for remolded sample preparation of gas-bearing sediments in the shallow seabed
Ling-wei Kong, Yong Wang, Xiong-wei Li

1683 Framework for life-cycle management of civil infrastructure based on risk and sustainability
Dan Frangopol, Samantha Sabatino, You Dong

1685 A complex finite element sensitivity method for plasticity and creep
Arturo Montoya, Harry Millwater, Armando Gomez-Farias

1687 Response analysis of granular flows using MPM
Pedro Arduino, Peter Mackenzie-Helwein, Greg Miller

1689 Numerical modeling of seaward tilting mechanism in vertical breakwaters
Miguel Martín Stickle, Manuel Pastor, Angel Yagüe, Diego Manzanal

1691 Simulation of reinforcement fracture in reinforced high-performance fiber-reinforced cementitious composites flexural members
Matt Bandelt, Sarah Billington

1693 Localization analysis for a dynamic two-scale damage model
Cristian Dascalu

1695 Development of asphalt mixture viscoelastic and energy based fatigue testing on APA platform
Baoshan Huang, Xiang Shu, Hao Wu

1697 Study of large-scale interstate highway pavement crack characteristics/patterns using emerging 3D technology and multi-scale topological model
Yichang Tsai, Julius Doan , Yiching Wu

1703 [WITHDRAWN] Mechanical on the Interface of Dowels and Surrounding Concrete under Wheel Load and Temperature Gradient
Jie Yuan

1705 Back analysis of modulus in the pavement structure model test of typical materials
Lei Zhang, Xudong Wang, Xingye Zhou, Nianmei Zhang

1711 Seismic hazard and vulnerability assessment of himachal pradesh and contiguous regions
Mridula Singh, Swati Singh Rajput, Amita Sinvhal, H. R. Wason

1713 Recent advance of anomalous statistical methods in engineering reliability analysis
Yingjie Liang, Wen Chen

1715 Probabilistic optimization of performance-based seismic design of structures considering soil–structure interaction effects
Hessam Yazdani, Mohsen Khatibinia, Kianoosh Hatami

1717 Thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling effects on wave propagation and strain localization in a softening fully saturated porous medium
SeonHong Na, WaiChing Sun

1719 Creation of statistically equivalent periodic unit cell for protein-bound soils
Isamar Rosa, Michael Lepech, Henning Roedel, David Loftus

1721 Seismic response assessment of structures in the presence of modeling uncertainty
Beliz Ugurhan Gokkaya, Jack Baker, Greg Deierlein

1723 Predicting ductile fracture of steel beam-column connections
Huajie Wen, Hussam Mahmoud

1725 Exploring mechanistic models to predict ultimate compressive strength in novel biocomposites
Henning Roedel, Michael Lepech, David Loftus

1727 Micromechanical bounds on the fracture toughness of silica-reinforced polymer micro-composites
Gregory A. Bouche, Ange-Therese Akono

1729 Serviceability of foundations for offshore wind power plants
Torsten Wichtmann, Hauke Zachert, Theodoros Triantafyllidis

1731 Microstructure and nonlinear viscoelastic-viscoplastic characterization of binders used in warm mix asphalt
Eyad Masad, Ilaria Menapace, Mohammed Sadeq

1733 Simulation of a self healing polymer based on the microencapsulation approach using the theory of porous media
Steffen Specht, Joachim Bluhm, Jörg Schröder

1737 Equivalent inclusion method-based simulation of magnetic particle alignment in stokes flow towards manufacturing strain gauge
Gan Song, Huiming Yin

1739 Experimental and numerical investigations of the correlations involved during failure in quasi-brittle materials
David Grégoire, Vincent Lefort, Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot

1741 Anatomy of the “compressive ring” in plates under fire
Payam Khazaeinejad, Asif Usmani

1743 Shake table tests of unattached, multi-body systems with low-friction sliding isolators
Christine Wittich, Tara Hutchinson

1745 Online noise identication for joint state and parameter estimation of nonlinear systems
Thaleia Kontoroupi, Andrew Smyth

1747 Toward high-dimensional nonlinear structural system bayesian state/parameter estimation
Audrey Olivier, Andrew Smyth

1753 Micromechanical modeling for the deformation of sand with non-coaxiality between the stress and material axes
Kane Bennett, Ching Chang

1755 Improvement of clayey / lateritic materials for road pavement application
Nadia Saiyouri, Mahamadou Souley Issiakou, Richard Fabre, Yannick Anguy