Abstract: A model for evaluating structural damage in reinforced concrete structures under earthquake ground motions is proposed. Damage is expressed as a linear function of the maximum deformation and the effect of repeated cyclic ...

Abstract: A practical approach for the reliability analysis of structural systems is presented. Practical approximations and simplifications to the theoretical stable‐configuration approach are derived from the cut‐set formulation ...

Abstract: The computational assessment of system reliability of structures has remained a challenge in the field of reliability engineering. Calculation of the failure probability for a system is generally difficult even if the ...

Abstract: Two formulations are developed for the determination of the reliability of general redundant structural systems. One is the failure mode approach, which is based on ways in which a structure may fail. The other is the ...

Abstract: A method is presented for determining the probabilities of a structure sustaining various levels of damage due to seismic activity during its lifetime. Uncertainties in the loading and the structural response analysis are ...

Abstract: A method for evaluating structural damage of reinforced concrete buildings under random earthquake excitations is proposed. Extensive damage analysis of SDF systems and typical MDF reinforced concrete buildings were ...

Abstract: The failure probability of a series structural system theoretically involves multidimensional integration and is usually difficult to calculate. The search for efficient computational procedures for estimating system ...

Abstract: Importance‐sampling technique has been used in recent years in conjunction with Monte Carlo simulation method to evaluate the reliability of structural systems. Since the efficiency of the importance‐sampling method depends ...