Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems : Assessment, Design, and Life-Cycle Performance

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

Part I : Keynote Papers
Chapter 1 : Optimization and Reliability Problems in Structural Design of Wind Turbines
Chapter 2 : Life-Cycle Performance and Cost analysis of Bridge Network Considering Seismic Risk
Chapter 3 : Exchangeable Condition States and Bayesian Reliability Updating

Part II : Technical Contributions
Chapter 4 : Practical Assessments of Risk and Its Uncertainty
Chapter 5 : Sampling Strategies to Detect Threshold Excursions in Random Fields
Chapter 6 : Role of Uncertainties in The Lifetime Performance of Concrete Structures
Chapter 7 : Lifetime Optimization of Deteriorating Structures
Chapter 8 : Seismic Reliability Functions For Complex Systems Based on a Secant-Stiffness Reduction index
Chapter 9 : Redundancy and Robustness of Structures : A Retrospective
Chapter 10 : Case Study of a Hands-on inspection For Optimal Maintenance Planning For Railway Bridges
Chapter 11 : Condition Rating Methodology on RC Bridges With Chloride induced Deterioration
Chapter 12 : A New Performance-Based Maintenance approach For infrastructures
Chapter 13 : Earthquake-Proof Reliability-Based Design For Steel Rigid-Frame Piers of Highway Bridges
Chapter 14 : Effect of Dynamic Wheel Loads on Fatigue Performance of RC Slabs
Chapter 15 : Effect of Uncertainty in Cross-Sectional Property on Reliability-Based topology Optimization of Frame
Structures
Chapter 16 : The applications of The Third-Order Normal Polynomial to Structural Reliability assessment
Chapter 17 : Bridge Live Load Effects Based on Statistics of Extremes Using on-Site Load Monitoring
Chapter 18 : Non-Gaussianity of Structural Resistance in The Directional Simulation in Load Space
Chapter 19 : Optimal Strengthening of RC Bridges With Degradation in Safety Due to Chloride induced Deterioration
Chapter 20 : Evaluation of Seismic Performance of Highway Bridge System By Multi-State System approach
Chapter 21 : Optimal Condition Control of Systems Comprised of Multiple Homogeneous Components
Chapter 22 : an investigation on Story Failure Modes of Frame Structures
Chapter 23 : Elasto-Plastic Response of Steel Bridge Pier Base Joint Under Seismic Loading
Chapter 24 : Modelling The Loss of Steel-Concrete Bonds in Corroded Reinforced Concrete Beams
Chapter 25 : Random Vibrations and Peak Response of a Shear Beam Under High Frequency Seismic Effects
Chapter 26 : Case Studies on Determination of Load and Resistance Factors By Method of Moments
Chapter 27 : A Method For Computing Reliability Bound of Series Structural Systems

Author Index