This book gathers outstanding papers on numerical modeling in Civil Engineering (Volume 1) as part of the 2-volume proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Numerical Modeling in Engineering (NME 2022), which was held in Ghent, Belgium, on 23-24 August 2022. The overall objective of the conference was to bring together international scientists and engineers in academia and industry from fields related to advanced numerical techniques, such as the finite element method (FEM), boundary element method (BEM), isogeometric analysis (IGA), etc., and their applications to a wide range of engineering disciplines. This volume covers numerical simulations with industrial civil engineering applications such as bridges and dams, cyclic loading, fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, geotechnical engineering, thermal analysis, reinforced concrete structures, steel structures, and composite structures. The book is intended for academics, including graduate students and researchers, as well as industrial practitioners working in the numerical modelling in civil engineering topics.
Nonconforming spectral element method for Oseen equations and Navier
Stokes equations.- Application of Gorilla troops' social intelligence in
damage detection for a girder bridge.- Numerical Analyses for Evaluation of
Factor of Safety Distribution Map.- A Hybrid Optimization Algorithm for
Structural Health Monitoring.- Transient Analysis of Heat Transfer in a Trunk
Under a Forest Fire Influence.- Design of an Auditorium Equipped with an
Attached Solar Greenhouse Used to Improve Indoor Environmental Conditions.-
K-means optimizer: An efficient Optimization Algorithm for predicting the
uncertain material parameters in real structures.- A nonlinear approach to
investigate the effect of sheet pile toes embedded length on the lateral
displacement derived from soft clay-deep excavation.- Damage Detection in a
3D Truss Structure Using Natural Frequencies and Metaheuristic Algorithms.-
Effect of the incident wave angle on the hydrodynamic performance of a
land-based OWC device.- Data-driven Kriging model for predicting concrete
compressive strength and parameter correlation analysis.
Prof. Magd Abdel Wahab is a Full Professor of Applied Mechanics in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University, Belgium. He received his B.Sc., 1988, in Civil Engineering and his M.Sc., 1991, in Structural Mechanics, both from Cairo University. Prof. Wahab completed his Ph.D. in Fracture Mechanics in 1995 at KU Leuven, Belgium. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Surrey in 2008. He has published more than 600 scientific papers in solid mechanics and dynamics of structures and edited more than 30 books and proceedings. His research interests include fracture mechanics, damage mechanics, fatigue of materials, durability, and dynamics and vibration of structures.