Abstract: The response variability of finite element systems arising from the spatial randomness of the material properties is examined. The system is subjected to static loads of a deterministic nature. The problem is analyzed using ...

Abstract: This paper presents a novel stochastic method for simulation of ground motions. The input is a user-specified earthquake scenario description, and the output consists of fully nonstationary acceleration time histories at ...

Abstract: An autoregressive moving‐average model (ARMA) for univariate two‐dimensional homogeneous Gaussian processes is introduced. At the same time, an efficient technique for numerically generating sample functions of such ...