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The Linz Café and the concept of "wholeness": Reclaiming the historical feeling of a long-gone building

The purpose of the paper is to discuss "The Linz Café," a building that ceased to exist in 1980. This project was conceived and constructed by Christopher Alexander for the summer exposition "Forum Design" in Linz, Austria. Despite its short-lived existenc ...

2024

How I became myself after merging with a computer: Does human-machine symbiosis raise human rights issues?

Marcello Ienca

Novel usages of brain stimulation combined with artificially intelligent (AI) systems promise to address a large range of diseases. These new conjoined technologies, such as brain-computer interfaces (BCI), are increasingly used in experimental and clinica ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2023

Vibration Serviceability Assessment for Pedestrian Bridges Based on Model Falsification

Ian Smith

With the development of new materials and advanced structural analysis, alongside increasing aesthetic requirements, recent years have witnessed a trend toward longer, taller, and lighter footbridges. Different from vehicular bridges, footbridges carry rel ...

2021

Validating model-based data interpretation methods for quantification of reserve capacity

Ian Smith, Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai

Optimal performance of civil infrastructure is an important aspect of liveable cities. A judicious combination of physics-based models with monitoring data in a validated methodology that accounts for uncertainties is explored in this paper. This methodolo ...

2021

Comparative study of the effects of three data-interpretation methodologies on the performance of geotechnical back analysis

Ian Smith

Back analysis can provide engineers with important information for better decision-making. Over the years, research on back analysis has focused mainly on optimisation techniques, while comparative studies of data-interpretation methodologies have seldom b ...

2020

Data-Interpretation Methodologies for Practical Asset-Management

Ian Smith, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai

Monitoring and interpreting structural response using structural-identification methodologies improves understanding of civil-infrastructure behavior. New sensing devices and inexpensive computation has made model-based data interpretation feasible in engi ...

2019

Comparison of data interpretation methodologies for geotechnical back analysis

Ian Smith

Rigorous back analysis plays a major role in providing information to engineers for better decision-making. Most research on this topic has focused on optimization techniques. Comparative studies of data interpretation methodologies have seldom been report ...

2019

The Hermenutic Circle of Data Visualization

Dario Rodighiero

According to Don Ihde (1990, 80–97), hermeneutic relations are a specific kind of technologically mediated I-world relations in which the technology must be “read” and “interpreted” in order to access the world. More recently, Peter-Paul Verbeek (2010, 145 ...

2018

Data-Interpretation methodologies for Non-Linear Earthquake Response Predictions of Damaged Structures

Ian Smith, Pierino Lestuzzi, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland

Seismic exposure of buildings presents difficult engineering challenges. The principles of seismic design involve structures that sustain damage and still protect inhabitants. Precise and accurate knowledge of the residual capacity of damaged structures is ...

2017

Usefulness of ambient-vibration measurements for seismic assessment of existing structures

Ian Smith, Pierino Lestuzzi, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland

A large number of buildings in regions with low to medium seismic hazard have been designed without considering earthquake actions. Retrofitting of all buildings that fail to meet modern code requirements is economically, technically and environmentally un ...

2017

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