The offshore wind industry has evolved over the past decade with significant technological advances. These have been driven by the need for offshore wind energy to provide cost-competitive renewable energy. The economics ...

A common criticism of traditional benefit-cost analysis (BCA) is that benefit-cost ratios (BCRs) are reductive, in the sense that they aggregate all benefits and costs into a scalar value; decision rules that aim to maximize ...

Large structural systems, under extreme natural hazard loadings, exhibit strongly nonlinear behavior that challenges commonly used diagnosis and modeling techniques. In such situations, the initial model may be quite ...

Landslides pose a significant threat to the loss of containment and failure of buried oil and gas pipelines. As the transmission pipelines traverse diverse terrain, identification of the susceptible regions for landslides ...

This study presents an approach for optimizing policies on crack repair, which may take place after pipeline inspection, depending on the possible failure risk (i.e., the severity of crack) and the repair cost. The approach ...

Stochastic simulation methods, such as Monte Carlo simulation (MCS), are typically used to estimate failure probabilities in reliability analysis, but they can be computationally intensive, often requiring many evaluations ...

Probabilistic performance-based wind engineering (PBWE) is a state-of-the-art framework that allows for direct uncertainty propagation through the hazard, aerodynamic, structural response, damage, and loss models in assessing ...

Performance-based engineering (PBE) has gained significant interest over the past decade for enabling more economic and innovative designs. Nonetheless, the vast computational demand required in propagating general uncertainty ...

After any seismic event, it is critical to rapidly assess the damage condition of bridges. This process could be facilitated using digital technologies to eliminate the barriers of manual inspections. The post-event response ...

Accelerometers are often used for inspection. With the rise of cheap accelerometers and their extensive use in smartphones there are opportunities to utilise such sensors for inspection and monitoring of our built ...