The Application of Reliability Based Design for Earthquake Resistant Communications Structures
Current earthquake design criteria consists of applying equivalent lateral static forces embodied in design codes. The structures designed in conformance with such provisions and principles...
Earthquake Energy Partitioning in Base Isolated and Dynamically Damped Structures
New earthquake energy spectra are proposed for practical design procedures using energy concepts. The spectra show integrated earthquake input energy of a unit mass with given natural...
Stochastic Seismic Response Sensitivity of Lifeline Systems
The seismic response sensitivity of lifeline systems is examining using a probabilistic analysis based on random vibration theory. This analysis includes: (1) modelling the earthquake...
A Practical Model for Forecasting Water Supply Functions at Time of the Earthquake
This study aims to construct a practical forecasting model for the seismic damage restoration of city water supply functions by using experts empirical knowledge as well as the functional...
Reliability of Electric Power Transmission Systems in Seismically Active Metropolitan Tokyo: Part 1. Network Modeling
A method is proposed for modeling electric power transmission systems. The model can be used to evaluate the reliability of the network connectivity in a seismically active region. It...
Reliability of Electric Power Transmission Systems in Seismically Active Metropolitan Tokyo: Part 3. Seismic Reliability Analysis
The seismic reliability of the connectivity of electric power transmission networks is evaluated by using the results of Parts 1 and 2. The fragility curves for the supporting structures...
Reconciliation Between Probabilistic and Deterministic Seismic Margin Analysis Methods
This paper presents a procedure for reconciling the results from the probabilistic and deterministic methods for calculating a high confidence of a low probability of failure (HCLPF) capacity...
Design of Buildings Under Earthquake Loadings Using Three-Stage Friction-Grip Elements
A simple method is given for the design of earthquake resistant buildings using three-stage friction-grip elements. Predesign is done by static analysis and verification is performed by...
A Continuous Damage Index for Seismic Reliability Assessment of Structural Steel Elements
Based on experimental investigations using steel plate elements subjected to cyclic axial loading, a continuous damage and/or deteriorating process is examined. In order to describe intermediate...
A Study of Seismic Reliability of Base Isolated Building Comparing with Non Base Isolated Building
An approach to discuss the difference between reliability of base-isolated buildings and that of non base-isolated buildings is presented. The fragility analysis method in PRA procedure...
Aseismic Reliability of a Strengthened R.C. Single Story Industrial Building
Based on results of seismic hazard analysis for a considered site, seismic reliability of a strengthened RC single-story industrial building against collapse has been evaluated. Inelastic...
Durability Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures
This paper attempts to provide a fundamental basis for estimating the remaining life of reinforced concrete structure. In the damage assessment of reinforced concrete structure, some quantity...
Assessment of Component Safety Due to Common Cause Events
This paper demonstrates the use of Modified Fault Tree Analysis (MFTA) and Modus Tollens Deduction (MTD) techniques for assessing the safety of redundant components due to common cause...
Safety Assessment Methodology for Construction Operations
There are many factors that affect the safety of construction operations which might lead to failures and accidents. The factors are associated with random, human-based or system uncertainty....
Fuzzy Reliability Analysis for Structural Systems with Continuous States of Failure
When there exist continuous transition states from the completely safe states to the completely failed states for structural components, the whole structure would behaves in the same way....
A Topology Variational Method for Reliability Analysis of Structural Systems
A force method of structural analysis, named topology variational method, is used to compute the reliability of plastic framework. The system failure is defined in terms of a global response...
Failure Prediction for Non-Linear Structural Systems
A method is described that makes failure predictions for structures which are complex, nonlinear and expensive to evaluate on a computer. The method makes use of a non-linear response...
Reliability of Elasto-Plastic Structural Systems
This paper proposes a method for generating safety margins and failure mode equations for elasto-plastic structures where interaction of load effects is taken into account. Structural...
Adaptive Importance Sampling
An adaptive importance sampling scheme is presented which is based on the idea that as one samples, the knowledge of the failure domain increases. If one keeps modifying the importance...
Redundancy of Multistate Structural Systems
In the theory of structural reliability it is often assumed that the system and its members can have two performance or damage levels ie. they can either be functioning or failed. It is...
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