Abstract: The unit volume weight of the material in a structural body is modeled as a random field, and the boundary of the body is modeled to be random. Both sources of randomness contribute in an interacting way to the variance ...

Abstract: A common design criterion for plastic frame or truss structures is that the probability of formation of a mechanism should be below some specified value. However, a mechanism formation need not be catastrophic because the ...

Abstract: The difficulties are discussed concerning the definition of the safe set in landom variable models of structural system reliability analysis. For frame structures the need for clarity and consistency motivates a continued ...

Abstract: Structural series‐system reliability analyses formulated solely by use of a finite number of random variables can often be done with sufficient accuracy in terms of first‐ or second‐order upper and lower bounds on the ...

Abstract: A load effect from the traffic load on a large bridge with a large interval of slowly varying nonzero influence on the load effect can be modeled as a Gaussian random process. The mean value function and the covariance ...

Abstract: Arguments are given in favor of the point of view that structural safety should be quantitatively expressed in terms of a pair of numbers, (