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Environmental Wave Barriers for Small Craft Harbors
This paper describes the history and development of the environmental wave barrier and the current planning and design being undertaken for a major expansion of the small boat harbor at...

Seismic Hazard Analysis of Buried Pipeline for Design
This paper concerns mainly the following three items on seismic hazard analysis of buried pipeline for design: (1) effects of pipeline length on risk, (2) effects of local site conditions...

Microtunneling MARTA
Microtunneling technology was used to provide temporary support for two transit tunnels that were part of the extension of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority system. This...

Reliability of Large Technological Systems
Codes and regulations regarding large technological systems of growing complexity should take into account the increasingly sophisticated analysis tools that have been and are being developed...

Man and Huge System Interaction
In many cases of disaster, the causes of failure of huge systems are frequently attributed to human error. However human is liable to error. To exclude human factor from a huge system...

Safety Analysis of Steel Building Frames Under Dynamic Wind Loading
A method is presented for evaluating the lifetime risk of failure, in terms of probability of excessive inter-floor deflection, for a class of steel building frames subjected to dynamic...

Response Surface Fitting in Offshore Structural Design
Failure probability estimation of complex offshore structures requires the modeling of the system behavior in terms of all uncertain parameters. This paper investigates the applicability...

Collision Risk Analysis Fixed Platform and Semisubmersible
This paper summarizes the North Sea experience pertaining to mooring line failures of conventional 8 and 12 anchor line systems. Mooring system calculations, experience and test results...

Reliability Analysis for Offshore Structures
This study presents the reliability analysis of an offshore structure. The mechanical model includes various elasto-plastic diagrams with and without the combination of the normal force...

Progressive Failure Probability of Soil Slopes Containing Geologic Anomalies
The variability in the redistribution of stress during sliding failure of a slope is first studied. Presence of a geologic anomaly is shown to affect the failure path pattern and likelihood...

Safety Assessment of an Existing Concrete Gravity Dam
The safety and/or probability of failure of an existing 146 m high concrete gravity dam subjected to normal static and dynamic loads is evaluated. Three modes of failure were considered,...

Simulation of Seismic Damage of RC Structures in Eastern US
A normalized index for evaluation of structural damage was developed based on the relation of demand and capacity. The proposed formulation combines two sources of damage: permanent deformation...

Seismic Response and Vulnerability of Water Delivery Systems
The response and vulnerability of straight segmented buried pipelines subject to seismic wave propagation are investigated in this paper. Seismic damage to buried pipelines is briefly...

Pipeline Field Experiment at Parkfield, CA
A field experiment designed to investigate the performance of buried pipelines at a fault crossing has been constructed near Parkfield, CA. The site was chosen to capitalize on the predicted...

Response Analysis of Crude Oil Transmission Systems
A preliminary analysis of the seismic response of continuous steel pipelines is presented. The Crude Oil Transmission System in the New Madrid Mo. area is choosen as an example. Assumptions...

A Seismic PRA Procedure in Japan and its Application to a Building Performance Safety Estimation: Part 2. Fragility Analysis
In this paper, a practical seismic fragility evaluation method for structure and equipment systems is proposed. Structural and equipment failures are considered here, reflecting detailed...

A Seismic PRA Procedure in Japan and its Application to a Building Performance Safety Estimation: Part 3. Estimation of Building and Equipment Performance Safety
This paper presents an application of a seismic PRA procedure to an apartment building, which also contains an electric substation for the surrounding area. In this procedure, as presented...

Reliability-Based Design Requirements for Foundations of Buildings Subjected to Earthquake
Optimum seismic design coefficients and safety factors with respect to shear and overturning failure modes are obtained for a set of multi-story frame buildings idealized as single-mass...

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...

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...

 

 

 

 

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