Reliability&opt Structural Sys

Focussing on structural reliability methods, reliability-based optimization, structural system reliability and risk analysis, lifetime performance and various applications in civil engineering. Invaluable to all concerned with structural system reliability and optimization, especially students, engineers, and workers in research and development.

Preface
Keynote Papers

Optimization and reliability problems in structural design of wind turbines
Life-cycle performance and cost analysis of bridge network considering seismic risk
Exchangeable condition states and Bayesian reliability updating
Technical Contributions

Practical assessments of risk and its uncertainty
Sampling strategies to detect threshold excursions in random fields
Role of uncertainties in the lifetime performance of concrete structures
Lifetime optimization of deteriorating structures
Seismic reliability functions for complex systems based on a secant-stiffnessreduction index
Redundancy and robustness of structures: A retrospective
Case study of a hands-on inspection for optimal maintenance planning for railwaybridges
Condition rating methodology on RC bridges with chloride induced deterioration
A new performance-based maintenance approach for infrastructures
Earthquake-proof reliability-based design for steel rigid-frame piers of highway bridges
Effect of dynamic wheel loads on fatigue performance of RC slabs
Effect of uncertainty in cross-sectional property on reliability-based topologyoptimization of frame structures
The applications of the third-order normal polynomial to structural reliability assessment
Bridge live load effects based on statistics of extremes using on-site load monitoring
Non-Gaussianity of structural resistance in the directional simulation in load space
Optimal strengthening of RC bridges with degradation in safety due to chlorideinduced deterioration
Evaluation of seismic performance of highway bridge system by Multi-StateSystem approach
Optimal condition control of systems comprised of multiple homogeneous components
An investigation on story failure modes of frame structures
Elasto-plastic response of steel bridge pier base joint under seismic loading
Modelling the loss of steel-concrete bonds in corroded reinforced concrete beams
Random vibrations and peak response of a shear beam under high frequencyseismic effects
Case studies on determination of load and resistance factors by method of moments
A method for computing reliability bound of series structural systems
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