"This book explores how to overcome structural failures and guarantee a long life and go to tap hidden structural capacities, by touching different axes in field of civil engineering by optimizing the design, like pre-dimensioning dampers and fire design and optimizing both structural model and implementation by adding the dashpot and changing the manner of programming"--.

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Book Series
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Detailed Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Using Diffusion Model for Prediction and Optimization of Drying Process of Building Material
• Chapter 2: Improvement of Continuity Between Industrial Software and Research One by Object-Oriented Finite Element Formulation of Shell and Plate Element
• Chapter 3: Optimization of Single Row Layout in Construction Site Planning
• Chapter 4: Offshore Structures
• Chapter 5: Wind Loads on Structures, and Energy Dissipation Systems Optimization
• Chapter 6: Optimization of Condensed Stiffness Matrices for Structural Health Monitoring
• Chapter 7: Optimization of Soil Structure Effect by the Addition of Dashpots in Substratum Modelization
• Chapter 8: Earthquake Resistant Design
• Chapter 9: Optimized Foundation Design in Geotechnical Engineering
• Compilation of References
• Related References
• About the Contributors
• Index