The safety condition of vehicles passing on long-span bridges has attracted more and more attention in recent years. Many research studies have been done to find convenience and efficiency measures. A vehicle safety evaluation model passing on a long-span bridge is presented in this paper based on fully connected neural network (FCN). The first step is to investigate the long-span bridge responses with wind excitation by using the wind tunnel test and finite element model. Subsequently, typical vehicle models are given and a vehicle-bridge system is established by considering weather conditions. Accident types of vehicles with severe weather are estimated. In particular, the input and output variables of the vehicle safety evaluation model are determined, and simultaneously training, validation, and testing data are achieved. Twenty-nine models have been compared and analyzed by using hidden layer, initial learning rate, batch size, activation function, and optimization method. It is found that the 4-15-15-4 model occupies a preferable prediction performance, and it can provide a kind of utility for traffic control and reduce the probability of vehicle accidents on the bridge.

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This paper will discuss some of the recent advances in the field of interferometry that have been made at Zygo. In the past year Zygo has introduced five major advances in the interferometry field: the 5500 Heterodyne Profiler, the AXIOM 2/20 distance measuring interferometer, a 450mm phase modulator for large aperture phase interferometry, a phase measuring interferometer at 351nm and the Mark IV programmable phase measuring interferometer. The presentation will conclude with a general discussion of what Zygo sees for the future of interferometry.

With the widespread use and increasing cycle life of climbing formwork to construct high-rise buildings in earthquake-prone areas, the risk of earthquakes during the construction period increases. Hence, it is necessary to analyze the seismic response of climbing formwork. According to actual climbing formwork in the super high-rise office building of Wanda Plaza in Kunming, China, the finite element model of the climbing formwork is established on the Ansys platform. The correctness of the model is verified by comparing the natural frequencies of the actual climbing formwork and the finite element model. The time-history analysis of the climbing formwork subjected to earthquakes of varying strong magnitudes is carried out. The maximum displacement position and maximum von Mises stress position of the climbing formwork under different working conditions are determined, and the seismic response of the climbing formwork is analyzed. It has been found that when the formwork is under construction, the maximum displacement position of the climbing formwork is at the center of the long beam of the upper platform, and the maximum von Mises stress position is the joint of the outer pole of the main platform and tripod. Under the climbing condition, the maximum displacement position of the climbing formwork is at the top of the outer pole of the upper platform, and the maximum von Mises stress position is the joint of the beam of the tripod and guide rail. The climbing formwork is partially damaged under the simulated earthquake. However, the displacement is large, and some components have reached the yield state. It is recommended to strengthen the connection between the upper platform and the guide rail and enhance the strength and rigidity of the outer pole and tripod. Climbing formwork is more sensitive to horizontal earthquakes and has minimal sensitivity to vertical earthquakes. The structure attached to the climbing formwork will reduce its sensitivity to earthquakes. The research results are of practical significance for seismic design and improvement of climbing formwork.

This paper deals with the method of creating a virtual autonomous vehicle dynamics model SimRod in AMESim environment and implementing such a model in Prescan and MATLAB/Simulink environments and performing co-simulation of the vehicle cornering maneuver at different values of the grip factor in these software. As a result, the driving dynamics of the SimRod vehicle is assessed in the simulation environment and the stability of the vehicle in the turn with respect to the grip factor and vehicle speed is analyzed.