Offshore Pile System Reliability
The existing design methodology for offshore pile foundations is evaluated relative to the ultimate performance of the foundation system using reliability techniques and data from three...
Critical Issues Related to a Combined Probabilistic Numerical Analysis of Contaminant Transport in Porous Media
Reliability algorithms provide attractive alternatives to Monte Carlo simulation and stochastic perturbation approaches for probabilistic analysis of contaminant transport in porous media....
A Criticism of Statistical Methods in Probabilistic Models in Structural Reliability
The usual statistical models, classical and Bayesian, are not well suited for problems of structural reliability, since here we have rarely as assumed for these models a sequence of identical...
Sensitivity Evaluation of Simulation Methods for Reliability Assessment
Commonly used reliability assessment methods include the first-order methods, second-order methods, and Monte Carlo simulation methods with or without variance reduction techniques. The...
High Order Statistics in Structural Reliability
The new simulation technique described in this paper attempts to avoid the significant amount of arbitrariness involved in the choice of the sampling distribution in the increasingly popular...
A Mathematical Tool Set for SORM Reliability Methods
FORM and SORM methods are used for approximating failure probabilities. Here an overview of the main mathematical results of SORM methods is given: Classification of asymptotic behavior,...
Experiences with Experimental Design Schemes for Failure Surface Estimation and Reliability
When using FORM and SORM to predict the probability of failure for a structural component a model for the failure function has to exist. For certain structural components a mechanical...
Earthquake Ground Motion Modeling with Stochastic Line Source
Principles of geophysics and stochastics are applied to develop an earthquake model, in which the earth medium is idealized as consisting of stratified elastic layers, responding to seismic...
Site-Dependence of Spatial Coherency
The spatial coherency of ground motion from nine dense arrays are analyzed to examine the site-dependence of spatial coherency. The spatial coherencies computed for arrays located on alluvium...
Response of Suspension and Deck Arch Bridges to Spatially Varying Ground Motion
Recent awareness of the spatial variation of earthquake ground motion has caused concern about the safety of large engineered structures under seismic excitation. The effects of spatially...
Stochastic Modelling of Strong Ground Motions for the Istanbul, Turkey Area from Seismic Data for the Surrounding Region
The ultimate goal of this research is to obtain simulations of earthquake ground motions for the Istanbul, Turkey region. A process of earthquake analysis developed by Ellis and Cakmak...
F-K Spectra From a Haskell-Type Source in a Multiple-Layered Half-Space
Analytic expressions for the complex Fourier amplitudes of seismic ground motion at the free surface of a layered half-space are established. The seismic source is described using Haskell's...
Estimates of Extreme Wind Distribution Tails
The assumption that extreme winds have a Gumbel distribution appears to yield unrealistically high failure probability estimates for wind-sensitive structures. For this reason we study...
Sampling Errors in U. S. Extreme Wind Records
A study of design level extreme wind speeds showed that sampling errors were the primary cause of station to station variability. A method for decreasing sampling errors in design wind...
Digital Simulation of Wind Load Effects
The time domain solution of the equations of motion of structures subjected to a stochastic wind field is often obtained by a step-by-step integration approach. The loading is often described...
Comparison of Wind Cross-Spectral Data with Models
Existing analysis procedures for the prediction of long-span bridge response to wind have until recently neglected the horizontal-vertical cross-spectral components of the wind under the...
Non-Gaussian Vortex Induced Aeroelastic Vibrations under Gaussian Wind
The 'lock in' aeroelastic vibration phenomenon observed for random wind excitation is modeled in a way that allows the application of the Slepian model process tool to obtain an approximation...
Slepian Process of a Non-stationary Process
An algorithm for simulating a zero-mean non-stationary Gaussian process over a fixed interval [0,T] with given arbitrary covariance function as well as the associated Slepian model process,...
Reliability of Degrading Dynamic Systems with Applications
A method is developed for the reliability analysis of degrading systems subject to random excitation. Elasto-plastic systems with degrading stiffness, thin plates with cracks and Daniels...
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...
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