Abstract: The present study reviews some of the more significant recent developments in the area of structural reliability analysis, proposes new interpretations for and emphasis in some of these crucial theoretical developments, ...

Abstract: This study utilizes remotely sensed pre- and post-disaster images in order to detect any change specifically associated with structural and major regional damage caused by natural disasters such as a strong earthquake. ...

Abstract: Currently the kriging and conditional probability density function (CPDF) methods are widely used in solving the conditional simulation problems involving stochastic processes and fields. For the fundamental understanding ...

Abstract: The investigation reported in this paper looks into the application of a number of system-identification techniques to problems of earthquake engineering. A number of techniques for structural-system identification have ...

Abstract: The investigation reported in this paper looks into the application of a number of system-identification techniques to problems of earthquake engineering. A number of techniques for structural-system identification have ...

Abstract: A new stochastic fields simulation technique that can realize prescribed means and covariances with a substantially smaller sample size than that of other existing methods is developed. The method utilizes the modal ...

Abstract: A method by which sample fields of a multidimensional non‐Gaussian homogeneous stochastic field can be generated is developed. The method first generates Gaussian sample fields and then maps them into non‐Gaussian sample ...

Abstract: A methodology to analytically and numerically evaluate the spectral distribution‐free upper bounds of the response variability of stochastic systems is developed. The structural systems examined consist of linearly elastic, ...

Abstract: A fundamental theory of evolutionary stochastic waves is developed based on Priestley's evolutionary power‐spectrum theory and a technique for digitally generating samples of such waves is introduced as a further extension ...

Abstract: After obtaining in a companion paper an exact expression of the stochastic stiffness matrix in terms of random variables called weighted integrals, the response variability and the safety index of stochastic frame structures ...