Search Results - "Goulet, A"

Bayesian dynamic linear models for structural health monitoring by Goulet, James‐A.

“…Summary In several countries, infrastructure is in poor condition, and this situation is bound to remain prevalent for the years to come. A promising solution…”
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Managing Seismic Risk Associated to Development Blasting Using Random Forests Predictive Models Based on Geologic and Structural Rockmass Properties by Goulet, A., Grenon, M.

“…As mining activities are expected to develop at greater depths, seismic responses to the blasting of development drift segments are expected to increase and…”
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Empirical Validation of Bayesian Dynamic Linear Models in the Context of Structural Health Monitoring by Goulet, James-A, Koo, Ki

“…AbstractBayesian dynamic linear models (BDLMs) are traditionally used in the fields of applied statistics and machine learning. This paper performs an…”
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Approximate Gaussian variance inference for state‐space models by Deka, Bhargob, Goulet, James‐A.

“…State‐space models require an accurate knowledge of the process error () and measurement error () covariance matrices for exact state estimation. Even though…”
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Anomaly detection with the Switching Kalman Filter for structural health monitoring by Nguyen, Luong Ha, Goulet, James‐A.

“…Summary The detection of changes in structural behaviour over time, that is, anomalies, is an important aspect in structural safety analysis. This paper…”
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Structural identification with systematic errors and unknown uncertainty dependencies by Goulet, James-A., Smith, Ian F.C.

“…•In model-based data-interpretation, uncertainty dependencies are in many cases unknown due to model simplifications and omissions.•Error-domain model…”
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Enhancing structural anomaly detection using a bounded autoregressive component by Xin, Zhanwen, Goulet, James-A.

“…Structural Health Monitoring has the potential to enhance the safety and serviceability of our aging infrastructures by detecting anomalies at an early stage…”
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Modeling infrastructure degradation from visual inspections using network‐scale state‐space models by Hamida, Zachary, Goulet, James‐A.

“…Summary Visual inspections is a common approach for the network‐scale monitoring of bridges. One of the main challenges when interpreting visual inspections is…”
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Non-ergodic site response in seismic hazard analysis by Stewart, Jonathan P, Afshari, Kioumars, Goulet, Christine A

“…Probabilistic seismic hazard analyses are usually performed with semi-empirical ground motion models (GMMs) following the ergodic assumption whereby average…”
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A stochastic model for estimating the network‐scale deterioration and effect of interventions on bridges by Hamida, Zachary, Goulet, James‐A.

“…Summary Visual inspections provide direct information about the deterioration states of each structural element within a bridge. However, when managing a…”
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Real‐time anomaly detection with Bayesian dynamic linear models by Nguyen, Luong Ha, Goulet, James‐A.

“…Summary A key goal in structural health monitoring is to detect abnormal events in a structure's behavior by interpreting its observed responses over time. The…”
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Quantifying the Relative Change in Maintenance Costs due to Delayed Maintenance Actions in Transportation Infrastructure by Hamida, Zachary, Goulet, James-A.

“…AbstractIdentifying optimal maintenance policies for transportation infrastructure such as bridges, is a challenging task that requires taking into account…”
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Analytical Inference for Inspectors’ Uncertainty Using Network-Scale Visual Inspections by Laurent, Blanche, Deka, Bhargob, Hamida, Zachary, Goulet, James-A.

“…AbstractVisual inspection is a common approach for collecting data over time on transportation infrastructure. However, the evaluation method in visual…”
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NGA-East ground-motion characterization model; Part I; Summary of products and model development by Goulet, Christine A, Bozorgnia, Yousef, Kuehn, Nicolas, Al Atik, Linda, Youngs, Robert R, Graves, Robert W, Atkinson, Gail M

“…In this article, we present an overview of the research project NGA-East, Next Generation Attenuation for Central and Eastern North America (CENA), and…”
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PEER NGA-East database by Goulet, Christine A, Kishida, Tadahiro, Ancheta, Timothy D, Cramer, Chris H, Darragh, Robert B, Silva, Walter J, Hashash, Youssef M. A, Harmon, Joseph, Parker, Grace A, Stewart, Jonathan P, Youngs, Robert R

“…This article documents the earthquake ground motion database developed for the NGA-East Project, initiated as part of the Next Generation Attenuation (NGA)…”
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The Gaussian multiplicative approximation for state‐space models by Deka, Bhargob, Ha Nguyen, Luong, Amiri, Saeid, Goulet, James‐A.

“…Summary Applications such as structural health monitoring (SHM) often rely on the analysis of time‐series using methods such as state‐space models (SSM). In…”
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Network-scale deterioration modelling of bridges based on visual inspections and structural attributes by Hamida, Zachary, Goulet, James-A.

“…•Modelling deterioration based on visual inspections and structural attributes.•Improving the estimation of the deterioration speed.•Reducing the overall bias…”
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Data-driven post-earthquake rapid structural safety assessment by Goulet, J. A., Michel, C., Kiureghian, A. Der

“…SummaryEarthquake‐prone cities are exposed to important societal and financial losses. An important part of these losses stems from the inability to use…”
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Quantifying the effects of interventions based on visual inspections from a network of bridges by Hamida, Zachary, Goulet, James-A.

“…Network-scale maintenance planning mainly depends on the expected improvement in a structure's condition following an intervention. Quantifying the effect of…”
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Probabilistic Modeling of Heteroscedastic Laboratory Experiments Using Gaussian Process Regression by Tabor, Lucie, Goulet, James-A, Charron, Jean-Philippe, Desmettre, Clelia

“…AbstractThis paper proposes an extension to Gaussian process regression (GPR) for data sets composed of only a few replicated specimens and displaying a…”
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