Civil Structural & Environ Eng: Recent submissions
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Wilting rationalism in technical decision making
(2023)Decision makers in diverse engineering disciplines, ranging from technical risk analysis and design to the development of risk-informed policies that impact on technology and society, benefit from the existence of a solid ... -
Sensitivity and reliability analyses applied to day-to-day geotechnical engineering using meta-models coupled with 3D finite elements
(2023)On one hand, finite element analyses have nowadays become a standard in order to design complex soil-structure interaction works, especially when dealing with sensitive structures in the vicinity of the project. On the ... -
Langevin Dynamics for Importance Sampling in Reliability Analysis
(2023)Importance Sampling (IS) is a popular simulation method for the reliability analysis of general engineering systems. Its core idea is to build a biased density that can sample from the failure domain more frequently than ... -
Climate Change Impacts on Flood-induced Industrial Building Losses in a Coastal City of Australia
(2023)Buildings in coastal cities of Australia, mostly located in estuarine and deltaic plains, are vulnerable to various types of floods. The adverse effects of flooding could be further exacerbated with global warming and sea ... -
Probabilistic Seismic Drift Demand on SMRF based on Extended Modal Analysis and Natural-Period-dependent Spectrum Intensity
(2023)The objectives of this study is to develop a framework for estimating the exceedance probability (pex) of the maximum inter-story drift ratio (ISDR) at each story of an SMRF on the basis of previously proposed techniques ... -
Calibration of load and resistance factors for the limit state-based assessment of dent-gouge defects on energy pipelines
(2023)Buried oil and gas pipelines are sometimes subjected to mechanical damage resulting from the impact with foreign objects such as excavation equipment or rocks. A severe form of the mechanical damage is the so-called ... -
Investigations on the effect of non-linear models on the reliability of partial safety factor designs
(2023)Most modern structural design codes, such as the Eurocode, are based on the partial safety factor concept. The partial safety factors are calibrated on linear limit states. They provide simplified rules on the application ... -
Time-Dependent Reliability Calculations Approximated by a Lower and Upper Bound Method to Determine Time-To-Failure Curve for Optimization of Interventions
(2023)The optimization of the timing of repair interventions on civil engineering structures is ideally based on the minimization of the total life-cycle cost. An important part of the total life-cycle cost is the expected failure ... -
Could rooftop solar panels and storage have enhanced the electricity resilience during Hurricane Isaias (2020)?
(2023)Hurricanes damage power systems extensively, causing large power outages, critical service disruptions, and major economic losses. Hurricane Isaias (2020) caused more than two million power outages in the U.S. that, in ... -
A performance-based probabilistic framework to model risk to power systems from hurricanes
(2023)Utility companies are often prepared for small-scale blackouts under normal operating conditions. However, they face crucial challenges with extreme weather events, such as hurricanes. Utilities must make risk-informed ... -
Applicability of meta-model assisted reliability assessment for dynamic problems: a comparison between regression-based methods
(2023)There is a growing intent among engineers, stakeholders, and decision makers to use probabilistic methods for infrastructure assessment or design objectives. However, the corresponding limit state for such problems usually ... -
Application of a decision sensitivity measure for the cost-benefit analysis of flood polders along the Bavarian Danube
(2023)The use of sensitivity measures to quantify the relative importance of model inputs and to assess the effect of uncertainties is an important part of risk analyses in engineering. In risk analysis, models serve to support ... -
An efficient strategy for reliability-based design optimization of linear structural dynamic systems by the cross-entropy method
(2023)Engineering structures should be designed to minimize construction costs and maintain safety. Structural performance can be seldomly characterized deterministically, as many parameters, such as the material properties, ... -
On the Value of Information forecasting with multi-information systems
(2023)The deterioration of structural components together with the climate and mobility increasing demands undermine civil structuresﾒ safety and functionality performance. Planning of maintenance activities is necessary, along ... -
Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Electric Power Infrastructure Subjected to Earthquake-Induced Landslides
(2023)We develop a probabilistic framework to assess the vulnerability of electric power transmission structures to shallow landslides induced by earthquake ground shaking. We probabilistically describe possible damage states ... -
Risk Targets for Recovery-Based Design of Individual Buildings Considering Regional Performance
(2023)The development of risk-targeted design loads for recovery-based design first requires consensus around acceptable levels of building risk, specifically in terms of recovery-based performance objectives such as reoccupancy ... -
Quantitative modelling of human health risks arising from pesticide use in Irish agriculture
(2023)Pesticides have been identified as a growing concern due to the risk they pose to human health. Risk models can be used to predict pesticide concentrations in drinking water and analyse the associated health risks and hence ... -
Seismic reliability assessment of slopes subjected to stochastic pulse-like ground motions
(2023)Near-fault pulse-like ground motions attract increasing attention in engineering because they tend to cause more severe damage to structures than ordinary ground motions. Landslides, as the most common natural hazard ... -
Facilitating optimal people-centered risk-informed infrastructure design in growing cities, through a holistic lens
(2023)Past events around the world have highlighted the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to natural and anthropogenic hazards, which result in disruptions that have significant societal consequences. Many previous studies ... -
Considerations for the Development of Evidence Theory Applications
(2023)Evidence theory provides a natural framework for analyzing imprecise probabilities. Evidence theory enables the explicit recognition of ignorance and is therefore suited for the analysis of missing or incomplete data. This ...
