A Real-Time Structural Damage Detection method for High-Pile Wharf Foundations

As one of the most common structural forms in port engineering, the operation environment of high-pile wharf is quite harsh and complex, and its pile foundation often produces structural damage of different degrees. Until now, there is a lack of efficient, safe and economic damage detection methods. A novel and precise real-time structural damage detection (SDD) method using both finite element modelling (FEM) and 1D convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is established in this study. The results indicate that the proposed method could accurately identify the presence and location of damage in real time. The results also demonstrated that the proposed 1D CNNs based model are more sensitive to the longitudinal and lateral displacement responses of the high-pile wharf structure.

APPLICATION OF RAINFLOW TECHNIQUES TO THE DESIGN AND OPERATION OF PORT INFRASTRUCTURE

The concept of rainflow comes from the fatigue damage field where it has demonstrated its appropriateness (see Johannesson, 1999). In port engineering, rainflow counting has shown some serious advantages over traditional methods such as the zero-downcrossing method but it is not widely used. This work aims at showing some applications of this technique to problems detected in port operation and reliability after briefly introducing the concept.Recorded Presentation from the vICCE (YouTube Link): https://youtu.be/_gwjsDd3yiE

Research on the Fine Cost Management of Port Engineering Project Based on BIM

<p>With the development of economic globalization, the scale of international trade continues to expand. Ports are very important for cross regional transactions. However, the construction cost is also very high in the actual construction process because port engineering is a relatively large project. Cost management can effectively control the cost and improve the economic benefits of port engineering project construction. The traditional cost management model has been unable to meet the needs because the construction cost control is a dynamic process and runs through the whole process of the project. BIM information technology is a technology with engineering digital model as the core. Based on BIM, this article studies the refined cost management of port engineering project, and aims to provide some help for relevant practitioners.</p>

Selected Papers from Coastlab18 Conference

The 7th International Conference on The Application of Physical Modelling in Coastal and Port Engineering and Science, Coastlab18, was organized in Santander, Spain, from 22 to 26 May 2018, by the Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de la Universidad de Cantabria, IHCantabria [...]

The emergence of port engineering in the light of capitalist modernization in Brazil, 1860–1940

This article explores one of the most important dimensions of economic development: the absorption and implementation of port construction techniques and technologies. In it, we examine the process through which Brazil absorbed and developed such techniques, applying them to the construction and equipping of the ports of Rio de Janeiro, Santos and Vitória, three ports that have been active in exporting coffee from the richest region in the country since the nineteenth century. The article also presents an analysis of the development of Brazilian port engineering, the political and corporate activity of the first Brazilian engineers and, finally, the impact of this whole process on the performance of the aforementioned ports. Starting with specific port-themed bibliography, the investigation considered sources such as technical reports and pictures, and also sparse documentation organized under the evidential paradigm, to analyse the period in which the old style colonial ports were replaced by projects for the capitalist modernization of the Brazilian maritime infrastructure, formulated by an emerging national engineering.