Abstract: This paper presents an overview of a research program aimed at obtaining basic data about errors committed in some of the tasks that typically occur in structural engineering design. Such information is of interest in ...

Abstract: In Cartesian coordinates importance sampling has been remarkably effective in improving the efficiency of Monte Carlo simulation techniques for reliability calculations in structural engineering. The approach is extended ...

Abstract: The directional-simulation procedure to estimate the zero-time failure probability and the outcrossing rate for structural systems is extended to structural frames subject to loads modeled as mixed Poisson pulse processes. ...

Abstract: A Monte Carlo procedure for reliability estimation of structural systems, subject to multiparameter time‐varying loading and formulated in the space of the load processes, is described. For most realistic reliability ...

Abstract: The present paper is concerned with estimating the reliability of underground pipelines subject to externally applied loading and to corrosion, either externally or internally, or both. This affects the strength of the ...

Abstract: This paper deals with the analysis of uncertain creep and shrinkage effects, and in particular the computation of the probability of serviceability failure for a reinforced concrete structure subjected to stochastic loadings. ...

Abstract: This technical note concerns the estimation of the outcrossing rate of nonstationary Gaussian vector processes from a convex polyhedral limit-state surface enclosing the origin. The theoretically most attractive approach ...

Abstract: Practical experience and laboratory observations indicate that corrosion affected reinforced concrete structures are prone more to cracking and delamination of the concrete than to the loss of structural strength. A review ...