Abstract: A method is developed to find the stresses and strains in an incompressible viscoelastic hollow cylinder with moving inner radius contained by an elastic case and subject to internal pressure ...

Abstract: Dealing with the issues of response variability for statically determinate structures, this study analyzes the response variability in two cases in which the spectral density function of the stochastic field takes limiting ...

Abstract: An autoregressive model for univariate, one‐dimensional, nonstationary, Gaussian random processes with evolutionary power spectra is introduced. At the same time, an efficient technique for numerically generating sample ...

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: A reliability analysis method has been developed for plane‐frame structures with shear walls subjected to earthquake ground accelerations. The structural reliability is measured in terms of the probability that throughout ...

Abstract: Dealing with a stationary narrow-band Gaussian process X(t) with mean zero, this paper derives a number of approximate solutions on the basis of the point-process approach. In particular, upper ...

Abstract: The first-excursion probability of a stationary narrow-band Gaussian process with mean zero has been studied. Within the framework of point process approach, series approximations derived from the ...

Abstract: A method is developed to estimate the reliability of a seismically damaged structure that will be subjected to future earthquakes. Damage states are defined, and conditional as well as initial damage probability matrices ...