Abstract: Reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) is a well-known design strategy in engineering. However, RBDO usually requires uncertainties to be modeled by statistical distributions. This requires the availability of ...

Abstract: Natural hazards have the capability to affect technological installations, triggering multiple failures and putting the population and the surrounding environment at risk. Global climate change introduces an additional and ...

Abstract: Exact analytic expressions are given to evaluate the reliability of systems consisting of components, connected in parallel or series, subject to imprecise failure distributions. We also proposed a simplified version of ...

Abstract: This article studies incentives to share risk as a risk management tool to address issues of interdependency among risk assessment, risk perception, and risk management in large civil engineering projects. The decision ...

Abstract: In this paper, the challenge of quantifying the uncertainty in stochastic process spectral estimates based on realizations with missing data is addressed. Specifically, relying on relatively relaxed assumptions for the ...