Abstract: In this paper, nonhomogeneous Markov chains are proposed for modeling the cracking behavior of reinforced concrete beams subjected to monotonically increasing loads. The model facilitates prediction of the maximum crackwidth ...

Abstract: A methodology for remaining life assessment of reinforced concrete bridge girders affected by chloride-induced corrosion of reinforcement is proposed. The uncertainties in the values of the parameters characterizing the ...

Abstract: The detection of abrupt changes in observed/estimated physical processes is an issue of concern in many applications. An algorithm for single change point detection in Gaussian white noise processes is presented in this ...

Abstract: A summary is given of the development of two techniques for handling system and excitation nonlinearities: equivalent statistical quadratization and equivalent statistical cubicization. Depending upon the nature of a given ...