Automatic Calibration of Conceptual Rainfall-Runoff Models
An automatic calibration strategy applied to land and channel components of the National Weather Service River Forecast System is outlined. Aspects discussed include the objective function...

A New Method for Synthesizing a Six Hour Unit Hydrograph
A new methodology was devised that would use readily available basin physical parameters for the determination of unit graphs in undeveloped and ungaged areas. Rather than using small...

Fault-Tolerant Design for Data Acquisition and Flood Forecast Systems
An innovative fault tolerant flood warning system is currently being installed in the Passaic River Basin. The new system is designed to automatically tolerate the failure of major components...

Modified CIMIS Irrigation Scheduling Program
CIMIS, California Irrigation Management Information System, is a program that collects weather data around the state to assist irrigators in planning and scheduling their irrigations....

A Modal Coupling Procedure for Structural Dynamics
A method is presented for synthesizing the real modes of substructures to obtain the complex modes of the combined structure. These complex modes properly include the nonclassical damping...

A Comparative Study of Different Base Isolators
A comparative study of the effectiveness of four different base isolators is carried out. The structure is modeled as a rigid mass and the accelerograms of the North-South component of...

Response of Structures to Horizontal-Vertical Earthquakes
In the present work, the responses of a class of hysteretically nonlinear structures subjected to the combined horizontal and vertical random ground accelerations are studied. A massless...

Reliability of a Frictional System with Uncertainty
In recent years, more emphasis has been placed on the study of random vibration of structures with uncertain parameters. Most of these have dealt with second order statistics of the response...

Seismic Response of Simple Structures with Coulomb Damping
A single story structure incorporating a floor-sliding mechanism for dissipation of vibration energy through Coulomb friction damping is examined. The response of this structure is evaluated...

Nonlinear Axisymmetric Uplift of Circular Plates
A formulation of a method of analysis of the nonlinear axisymmetric response of the bottom plate of a liquid storage tank under uplifting forces is presented. At first, the plate is assumed...

Dynamic Behavior of R/C Buildings in Vi? del Mar, Chile
The Chilean earthquake of 3 March 1985 resulted in an effective peak acceleration of 0. 36g in the coastal city of Vina del Mar. The city had an inventory of over 400 reinforced concrete...

Methods for Improving the Seismic Response of Concentrically Braced Steel Frames
This paper briefly reviews various factors contributing to the poor performance occasionally observed in concentrically braced steel frame structures during recent earthquakes. Several...

Unusual Shaped Highrise Buildings in Seismic Zone
The structural concepts, seismic analysis and design of five recent highrise structures are presented in this paper. The paper deals with the problem of multistory buildings having 'structural...

Unified Approach to Reliability-Based Structural Optimization
The purpose of this paper is to present a unified approach to reliability-based structural optimization. The emphasis is placed on recent developments in the field including optimal design...

Serviceability Limit States in Load Space
Deflection and elastic limit state curves are drawn in load space using a nonlinear structural analysis program. Use of load space simplifies computation of point estimates of serviceability...

Application of Normal Integration Formulas to Bridge Reliability Analysis
Structural reliability analysis often involves extensive integration of complex multivariable functions. Special techniques can be used to reduce this numerical effort. This paper deals...

Probabilistic Models of Fatigue Crack Growth
The reliability of a structure against metal fatigue is a problem that has been of concern to engineers for a very long time. This problem was one of the first to be approached probabilistically,...

Applications of Fiber Bundle Model to Structural Engineering
The bundle failure time has been studied extensively for both deterministic and random loads. The objective of this paper is to apply results in these studies to the dynamic analysis of...

Seismic Response Component in the Risk Assessment of Dams
The risk analysis model for dams that is discussed in this paper considers the probability of an initiating event and the following conditional probabilities of the system response, the...

Seismic Decision Analysis for Jackson Lake Dam
This paper presents a framework for decision analysis that can be applied to seismic dam safety problems. The framework provides a means for displaying uncertainties in a manner that allows...

 

 

 

 

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