Damage prognosis is a natural extension of damage detection and structural health monitoring and is forming a growing part of many businesses. This comprehensive volume presents a series of fundamental topics that define ...

This paper presents a novel damage mechanics based failure model enabling the prediction of low cycle fatigue life and residual strength of isotropic structures under multiaxial loading. The approach herein proposed does ...

When small damage is detected in its initial stage in a real structure, it is necessary to decide if the user must repair immediately or keep on safely monitoring it. Regarding the second choice, the present paper proposes ...

This study aims to investigate the performance of a data-driven methodology for quantifying damage based on the use of a metamodel obtained from the Polynomial Chaos-Kriging method. The investigation seeks to quantify the ...

In the field of liability, continental legal systems have evolved from the acknowledgement of the need to provide damages to the victim of a not lawful action toward the idea of adjudicating moral damages. However, this ...