Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems

One Keynote Lectures.- 1 Optimal resource allocation for seismic reliability upgrading of existing structures and lifeline networks.- 2 Codified reliability of structures.- 3 Towards consistent-reliability structural design for earthquakes.- 4 Fuzzy logic and its contribution to reliability analysis.- Two Technical Contributions.- 5 Experience from the application of reliability fatigue crack growth analyses on real life offshore platform: parametric study and sensitivity analysis.- 6 The use of a F.E. code for multicriteria reliability based optimization of composite material structures.- 7 Approximation of non-normal responses for drag dominated offshore structures.- 8 Parameter-dependent integrals: some mathematical tools.- 9 Optimization of foundation of bridge on soft ground.- 10 Reliability of anchored monolith structures under corrosion effects.- 11 Reliability of flexible structures exposed to non-Gaussian wind pressure.- 12 A stochastic crack growth model with propagation resistance as a random field.- 13 Algorithms for reliability-based optimal design.- 14 Reliability estimation of tall RC chimneys.- 15 Discussion on response surface approximations for use in structural reliability.- 16 Site-specific and component-specific bridge load models.- 17 Functionals of stochastic processes and random fields in reliability analysis.- 18 Analysis of ignorance factors in design criteria subject to model uncertainty.- 19 An efficient FORM-based strategy for the reliability analysis of marine structures.- 20 Differentiation of probability functions arising in structural reliability.- 21 Relation between parameter sensitivities and dimensional invariance on stochastic materials design of fibrous composite laminates.- 22 Assessment of global reliability from local damage observations: application to highway bridge decks.- 23 Interactive structural optimization with quasi-Newton algorithms.- 24 Reliability of laminated structures by an energy based failure criterion.- 25 Optimization of absorbers in the highway bridges due to traffic flow.- 26 Interactive reliability-based optimal design.- 27 Reliability analysis and optimal design of monolithic vertical wall breakwaters.- 28 Assessment of performance and optimal strategies for inspection and maintenance of concrete structures using reliability based expert systems.- 29 Seismic reliability of electric power transmission systems.- 30 Reliability analysis of load path-dependent structures.- 31 Random vibrations of structures under propagating excitations.- 32 Two improved algorithms for reliability analysis.- 33 Reliability considerations of beams subjected to random moving loads.- Index of contributors.