Abstract: With the rapid urbanization in this era, it has become an economic imperative to make use of underground space in many countries. Achieving long-term durability goals of lining structures is a challenging task to guarantee ...

Abstract: Structural reliability is a widely used tool to estimate the safety level and remaining service life of civil structures and infrastructure systems. Using a stochastic process to model the resistance or structural response, ...

Abstract: The successful past performance of an existing bridge is evidence of its resistance, which reduces the uncertainty associated with the resistance and so increases the bridge reliability. However, the resistance deterioration ...

Abstract: The capacity deterioration of structures over time may impair their seismic structural reliability significantly, and, thus, they should be taken into account when assessing their seismic performance. In this study, a ...

Abstract: Civil structures and infrastructures are often subjected by design to the impacts of natural and human-caused hazardous events, and accordingly may suffer from damages, functionality loss, and failure. In order to ...

Abstract: The development of high rockfill dams has imposed greater demands on the compaction quality of rockfill materials. However, because rockfill particles are subjected to crushing under the compaction of a high-powered roller, ...

Abstract: Residential buildings in coastal areas often suffer from dramatic cyclone-induced damages. Resilience analysis is a powerful tool to quantify the object’s (e.g., a building portfolio’s) ability to withstand disruptive ...

Abstract: Elastic cables have the advantages of desirable seismic mitigation effect, low cost, and convenient installation, and have been used widely in low-to-mid-span bridges. However, their utilization in long-span cable-stayed ...

Abstract: The safety and serviceability of in-service structures and infrastructure systems are often threatened by natural hazards. Asset owners/decision makers are thus concerned about the resilience of an object of interest ...