Abstract: To assess tsunami evacuation risk accurately in order to guide effective evacuation planning, various uncertainties (including the aleatory and epistemic uncertainties) associated with the evacuation process need to be ...

Abstract: Estimation of the time that a bridge or bridge component stays in a specific condition can guide decision-making on bridge maintenance and preservation. Statistical models of the time-in-condition rating (TICR) for bridges ...

Abstract: To investigate the behavior of engineering systems in the context of uncertainty propagation, sensitivity analysis, and design optimization, where large numbers of system model evaluations are needed, direct adoption of ...

Abstract: A sample-based evaluation of Sobol’ sensitivity indices is discussed in this paper relying on Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) for achieving computational efficiency. The foundation of the approach is the definition of an ...

Abstract: To assess the time-variant performance of RC structures, it is important to model the various deterioration processes as well as their interactions in addition to the associated uncertainties. Besides earthquakes and ...

Abstract: In stochastic analysis of engineering systems, the task of generating samples according to a target probability distribution involving some performance function of the system response often arises. This paper introduces ...