Abstract: Pitting corrosion of buried cast iron water pipelines causes damage that cannot be easily detected without advanced monitoring tools. Structural reliability analysis can be used to account for the inherent environmental ...

Abstract: This paper presents a generic copula-based method for accurate prediction of probabilistic time performance of projects. The proposed stepwise method first collates all uncertainties of the project activities and propagates ...

Abstract: Highway infrastructure is critical to the sustainable development of a country. Nonetheless, these capital-intensive projects, especially in build-operate-transfer (BOT) contracts, are prone to the risk of material price ...

Abstract: In time-dependent reliability analysis, the calculation of the mean outcrossing or upcrossing rate of a stochastic process from a safe domain or barrier level based on the Rice formula continues to present serious challenge ...

Abstract: The increasing rate of deterioration of buried pipelines has necessitated the development of a robust assessment method for their structural integrity and service life prediction. Among various deterioration mechanisms, ...