National Laboratory for Civil Engineering

Sparse autoencoders for unsupervised health assessment of a concrete dam

This study explores the application of dynamic monitoring combined with Sparse AutoEncoder (SAE) networks applied to acceleration time series for identifying and locating structural anomalies or material damage and deterioration. Compared to previous approaches proposed in the li...

Analysis of the performance of a top-hinged flap-type wave energy converter using a RANS-VoF numerical model

The performance of a full-scale top-hinged flap-type wave energy converter in the open sea is analyzed numerically in this study. A free surface flow Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes numerical model is used with the ANSYS Fluent® software. The flap, 7 m long, is immersed in a flum...