Magd Abdel Wahab 
Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Structural Damage Modelling and Assessment [PDF ebook] 
SDMA 2020, 4-5 August 2020, Ghent University, Belgium

This book comprises the select proceedings of Structural Damage Modelling and Assessment (SDMA 2020) presented online on 4–5 August 2020. It discusses the recent advances in fields related to damage modelling, damage detection and assessment, non-destructive testing and evaluation, structure integrity and structural health monitoring. The conference covers all research topics and applications relevant to structural damage modelling and assessment using theoretical, numerical and experimental techniques. This book is useful to scientists and engineers in academia and industry who are interested in the field of structural damage and integrity.

Table of Content

Monitoring and quantifying crack-based light damage in masonry walls with Digital Image Correlation.- Model updating for a railway bridge using a hybrid optimization algorithm combined with experimental data.- Degradation of concrete resistance: analysis of a homogeneous area. The city of Caserta.- Endurance tests of two reinforced concrete plinths of the former Saint Gobain factory in Caserta dating back to the 1960s.- Improved hydrostatic-season-time model for dam monitoring: inclusion of a thermal analytical solution.- Estimation of Bending Collapse Load for Triangle Tubes.- Intersection of convex cones as stress range for plane normal elastic bodies.

About the author

Prof. Magd Abdel Wahab is a Full Professor of applied mechanics in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University, Belgium, and Adjunct Full Professor in several universities in Vietnam and China. He received his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering and his M.Sc. in Structural Mechanics, both from Cairo University. He completed his Ph.D. in Fracture Mechanics at KU Leuven, Belgium and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Surrey. He has published more than 460 scientific papers in solid mechanics and dynamics of structures and edited more than 25 books and proceedings. His research interests include fracture mechanics, damage mechanics, fatigue of materials, durability, and dynamics and vibration of structures.