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Orders in Chaos: Enhancing Large-Scale MoE LLM Serving with Data Movement Forecasting Open

Yu Zhang, Yue Guan, Chenyang Zhou, Shiling Pei, Yangwook Kang , et al. · 2025

Large-scale Mixture of Experts (MoE) Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently become the frontier open weight models, achieving remarkable model capability similar to proprietary ones. But their random expert selection mechanism introduc…

Nonlinear Analysis of a 10-Story Building Shake Table Specimen with Mass Timber Rocking Walls Open

Sarah Wichman, Jeffrey W. Berman, Reid B. Zimmerman, Shiling Pei · 2025

Experimental Characterization of a Full‐Scale Stair System Detailed to Achieve Seismic Resiliency Open

Shokrullah Sorosh, Tara C. Hutchinson, Keri L. Ryan, Kevin Smith, Andreja Kovač , et al. · 2025

Stair systems are the primary means of egress in and out of a building during and after an earthquake. Therefore, it is essential to detail these critical nonstructural systems such that they remain operable during and after an earthquake …

Integrating Building Information Modeling (BIM) with Ecological Engineering for Sustainable Civil Construction Open

Xu Zhang, Qiming Zhou, Huiying Zhang, Lin Zhu, Shiling Pei · 2025

With the global emphasis on sustainable development, the construction industry has increasingly adopted eco-friendly practices, particularly through the integration of ecological engineering and Building Information Modeling (BIM) technolo…

Analytical and Numerical Models for Wind and Seismic Design and Assessment of Mass Timber Diaphragms Open

Leonardo G. Rodrigues, André R. Barbosa, Arijit Sinha, Christopher Higgins, Scott Breneman , et al. · 2023

While the use of cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels for building construction has increased over the last several decades, current standards and existing literature provide limited information regarding the design of CLT diaphragms or the…

FULL-SCALE 3-D SHAKE TABLE TEST OF A TEN-STORY MASS TIMBER BUILDING Open

Shiling Pei, John W. van de Lindt, Jeffrey W. Berman, Keri L. Ryan, J. Daniel Dolan , et al. · 2023

This paper provides a summary of the design, construction, and test planning of a shake table test program of a full-scale ten-story mass timber building.The shake table test program is a component of the experimental research work conduct…

PRESCRIPTIVE SEISMIC DESIGN PROCEDURE FOR POST-TENSIONED MASS TIMBER ROCKING WALLS IN THE UNITED STATES Open

Aleesha Busch, Reid B. Zimmerman, Shiling Pei, E. McDonnell, Philip Line , et al. · 2023

This paper describes a prescriptive seismic design procedure for a lateral force-resisting system composed of post-tensioned mass timber rocking walls.This procedure utilizes techniques and analysis methods routinely adopted by industry an…

Determination of seismic performance factors for cross-laminated timber shear walls based on FEMA P695 methodology Open

John van de Lindt, M. Omar Amini, Douglas R. Rammer, Philip Line, Shiling Pei , et al. · 2022

Cross-laminated timber (CLT) construction has been gaining popularity in North America.However, CLT-based seismic force resisting systems are not recognized in current U.S. design codes, which is among the many challenges preventing widesp…

Nonlinear SDOF Analytical Model of Mass-Timber Building with Post-Tensioned Rocking Walls Open

Angelo Aloisio, Marco Martino Rosso, Da Huang, Asif Iqbal, Massimo Fragiacomo , et al. · 2022

The dynamic response of post-tensioned rocking walls in a mass timber building can be reduced to a single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) model. In this model, the rocking wall panel is simplified as a rigid block, while the base rotation represe…

Sensitivity analysis of road tunnel resilience through data-driven stochastic simulation Open

Sandeep Khetwal, Marte Gutierrez, Shiling Pei · 2022

A probabilistic resilience model for tunnels exposed to disruptive events is vital to understanding and estimating the functionality loss and its recovery time due to these events. Performing sensitivity analysis will help to identify the …

Carbon Impact and Cost of Mass Timber Beam–Column Gravity Systems Open

Rachel Chaggaris, Shiling Pei, Greg Kingsley, Alexis Feitel · 2021

The need to lower the embodied carbon impact of the built environment and sequester carbon over the life of buildings has spurred the growth of mass timber building construction, leading to the introduction of new building types (Types IV-…

Time-to-Functionality Fragilities for Performance Assessment of Buildings Open

Jace Furley, John W. van de Lindt, Shiling Pei, Sarah Wichman, Hamed Hasani , et al. · 2021

This paper presents a new stochastic methodology for evaluating and quantifying the downtime of a structure in terms of a family of fragilities that represent the probability of exceeding prescribed times to return to functionality. This m…

FUNCTIONAL RESILIENCE EVALUATION OF ROAD TUNNELS THROUGH STOCHASTIC EVENT SIMULATION AND DATA ANALYSIS Open

Sandeep Khetwal, Shiling Pei, Marte Gutierrez · 2021

UTC-UTI Final Research Report 006: "FUNCTIONAL RESILIENCE EVALUATION OF ROAD TUNNELS THROUGH STOCHASTIC EVENT SIMULATION AND DATA ANALYSIS"

The big shake: designing tall timber buildings that are resilient to earthquakes Open

Shiling Pei · 2020

Numerical modeling of CLT diaphragms tested on a shake-table experiment Open

André R. Barbosa, Leonardo G. Rodrigues, Arijit Sinha, Christopher P. Higgins, Reid B. Zimmerman , et al. · 2018

Current standards and existing literature provide very limited information regarding the design of cross-laminated timber (CLT) floor diaphragms. In addition, limited procedures exist to develop analytical models to estimate the deformatio…

Reduction of Vehicle‐Induced Vibration of Railway Bridges due to Distribution of Axle Loads through Track Open

Zhibin Jin, Huang Bo, Juanjuan Ren, Shiling Pei · 2018

Short span railway bridges are prone to resonate caused by dynamic train axle loads, which were usually modeled as moving point loads on the bridge in many numerical studies. In reality, the axle weight of the train is a spread load for th…

Vehicle-induced random vibration of railway bridges: a spectral approach Open

Zhibin Jin, Guoqi Li, Shiling Pei, Hongyan Liu · 2017

The vibration of railway bridges induced by moving vehicles was conventionally evaluated through time domain simulations, which are computationally expensive in probabilistic analyses that require Monte Carlo simulation. A frequency domain…

Impact of train-induced vibration on railway cable-stayed bridges fatigue evaluation Open

Shiling Pei, Yongle Li, Yulong Bao, Xin Li, Qiang Shi-zhong · 2016

Under repetitive heavy train traffic, railway steel truss bridges tend to have many fatigue related performance issues, especially at welded joints. Accurate estimation of the stress history at critical locations of welded joints under veh…

Regression Model Evaluation for Highway Bridge Component Deterioration Using National Bridge Inventory Data Open

Pan Lu, Shiling Pei, Denver Tolliver · 2016

Accurate prediction of bridge component condition over time is critical for determining a reliable maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation (MRR) strategy for highway bridges. Based on bridge inspection data, regression models are the most-…

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