Publications by Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland

Determining structural properties of a prestressed concrete bridge through the combination of static and dynamic load testing

Eugen Brühwiler, Numa Joy Bertola, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland

Examining structural safety requires hypotheses on several properties of the bridge structure, such as material properties, boundary conditions, and self-weight. The traditional approach relies on conservative assumptions for each structural property, foll ...

2024

Sensing the structural behavior: A perspective on the usefulness of monitoring information for bridge examination

Eugen Brühwiler, Numa Joy Bertola, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland

Managing existing civil infrastructure is challenging due to evolving functional requirements, material aging, and climate change. With increasingly limited economic, environmental, and material resources, more sustainable solutions for practical asset man ...

2023

Using footstep-induced vibrations for occupant detection and recognition in buildings

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

Occupant detection and recognition support functional goals such as security, healthcare, and energy management in buildings. Typical sensing approaches, such as smartphones and cameras, undermine the privacy of building occupants and inherently affect the ...

2021

Model-based interpretation of floor vibrations for indoor occupant tracking

Ian Smith, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Slah Drira

Information regarding occupant flows inside buildings is beneficial for applications such as thermal-load control, market research and security enhancement. Existing methodologies for occupant tracking involve data-driven techniques that rely either on rad ...

2019

Occupant tracking using model-based data interpretation of structural vibrations

Ian Smith, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Slah Drira

2019

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

A model-based data-interpretation framework for post-earthquake building assessment with scarce measurement data

Ian Smith, Pierino Lestuzzi, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland

Recent earthquake events throughout the world have once again exposed the vulnerability of buildings with respect to earthquakes. It is unlikely and unsustainable to design and - especially in regions with low-to-moderate seismic hazard – to retrofit all b ...

2019

Using data interpretation to enhance post-seismic decision making at urban scale

Ian Smith, Pierino Lestuzzi, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Lorenzo Diana

2019

Occupant- detection strategy using footstep-induced floor vibrations

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

Identification of occupant presence and location inside buildings is essential to functional goals such as security, healthcare, and energy management. Floor-vibration measurements, induced by footstep impacts, provide a non-intrusive sensing method for oc ...

ACM2019

Is there a relationship between footstep-impact locations and measured signal characteristics?

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

Building utilization can be enhanced by tracking occupants. Non-intrusive tracking of occupants using floor-vibration measurements is beneficial for many smart-building applications such as energy consumption, security enhancement, and care-giving. Also, u ...

ACM2019