Reliability Analysis of Degrading Elasto-Plastic Oscillators
A method is developed for calculating the probability (reliability) that the total plastic displacement of an elasto-plastic oscillator does not exceed a critical level during a reference...
Some Remarks on BK-Models for Fatigue Crack Growth
The choice of a model parameter for concentrating the entire uncertainties of a constant load amplitude fatigue crack growth process is shown to be sufficient when reproducing the first...
A Fatigue Reliability Model for Railway Bridges
A fatigue reliability model is described for safety evaluation of steel railway bridges. The model is a function of six independent random variables and can accommodate different types...
Some Modeling and Analysis Techniques for Wave Propagation in Random Media
Some mathematical modeling techniques for the problem of wave propagation in randomly imperfect periodic medium are reviewed: multiscale formulation and random evolution modeling. These...
Differential Motions in Sedimentary Valleys
The differential motions (strains), induced in sediment-filled valleys due to incident seismic waves, are investigated. The response of a two-dimensional model of an asymmetric wedge-shaped...
Fatigue Life Variability and Reliability Analysis of a Wind Turbine Blade
Wind turbines must withstand harsh environments that induce many stress cycles into their components. A numerical analysis package is used to illustrate the sobering variability in predicted...
TLP Fatigue Due to Second-Order Springing
For offhsore oil production in water depths beyond 300-350 m, the tension leg platform (TLP) has become an increasingly popular design concept. The TLP is a floating structure with excess...
A New Probabilistic Model for the Fracture Toughness of Concrete
Scatter of strength and toughness parameters as well as scale effect are often observed in brittle materials such as concrete. The recently developed Crack Diffusion Model is utilized....
Stochastic Modeling of Short Fiber Reinforced Composites?A Review
Since the early 1960's, an extensive research and development has been carried out with fiber reinforced cements and concretes. Modeling of such heterogeneous material is still in the...
Floor Live Load Models and Pattern Load Effects
Probabilistic models of sustained live loads and equivalent uniformly distributed loads are discussed with regard to pattern load effects. A simple equivalent pattern load is identified...
Markov Decision Processes in Structural Optimization
Initial structural design and its associated inspection and maintenance policies are modelled as a Markov Decision Process. This approach attempts to realistically capture the dynamics...
Reliability-Based Optimization Using Sequential Quadratic Programming
This paper proposes a method for reliability-based optimization of large structures using the Stochastic Finite Element Method, including both component and system reliabilities. In SFEM,...
Engineering of Controlled-Drainage Systems
Soil-water management by water table control (via a dual purpose subdrainage-subirrigation system) is becoming popular in humid regions of the U.S. and Canada. Controlled-drainage is an...
Optimizing Economic Returns in Drainage Design
Soil wetness is a limitation to high agricultural productivity in Northern New York (NNY) where some 325,000 ha of cropland require drainage treatment. Drainage is needed for trafficability...
Stochastic Analysis of Seasonal Hydraulic Conductivity
Infiltration data collected by a ring infiltrometer tests, for summer, fall, and spring seasons, were used to determine hydraulic conductivity using Philip's two-term infiltration equation....
Use of the TETrans Model in Predicting ET Effects on Groundwater Quality
Recently Corwin and Waggoner (1991) developed a contaminant transport software package referred to as TETrans, (acronym for Trace Element Transport). TETrans is a useful preliminary assessment...
Predicting Water Quality as Affected by ET Using the Root Zone Water Quality Model
The Root Zone Water Quality Model (RZWQM) is a physically based simulation model used to predict water and solute movement running from, moving through, and leaching out of the root zone....
Simulated Citrus Water Use from Shallow Groundwater
Citrus groves in south Florida are planted on poorly-drained soils that support a shallow water table which can contribute some or all of the citrus evapotranspiration (ET) requirement...
2-D Evaporation and Root Extraction in an FEM
Two-dimensional processes of soil evaporation and moisture extraction by plant roots (horizontal and vertical) were incorporated into a saturated/unsaturated finite element model (UNSAT2)...
Simulating the Effects of Deficit Irrigation for Furrow Systems
The distribution of irrigation water across a field can dramatically affects management of furrow irrigation systems as water supplies become limiting. To assess management strategies...
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