The main challenge is to propose and test damage assessment approaches that could combine the spectral contents of the ground motion and the dynamic behavior of the buildings, while being simple and robust enough to be applied at a large scale (typically urban scale).
In order to avoid this case of damage an analytical assessment approach is developed by means of Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics and Finite Element Analysis.
Today, as investigators scramble to determine whether the wing damage contributed to the disaster on re-entry, these and other new details raise new questions about NASA's approach to damage assessment.
On the basis of this understanding, we recently proposed and developed a quantitative toxicogenomics-based comprehensive genotoxicity assessment approach with DNA damage and repair pathway ensemble-based cell arrays for multiple species including E. coli, yeast and human cells.
The shortcomings of the ECD approach to corrosion fatigue damage assessment and prediction are discussed along with the relationship between ECD and a new holistic approach known as the Discontinuity State Evolution Process.
The latter makes our approach particularly useful in damage assessment applications.
The computational methodology based on the local strain approach is described in detail for the fatigue damage assessment of metallic components under general multiaxial fatigue loads.
In this paper, we show that geometric and measurement uncertainty cause considerable problem in damage assessment which can be alleviated by using a fuzzy logic-based approach for damage detection.
However, some issues such as the role of noise in actual measurements, application to multi-coupled periodic structures with complex boundary conditions remain to be resolved before this approach becomes a truly variable method of structural damage assessment.
