Abstract: Improved highway networks result in net benefits to society, of which the reduction in travel time is one of the most important. Similarly, the delay in travel due to construction and maintenance operations represents a ...

Abstract: The reliability of redundant structural systems is computed in load space. The limit state curve is determined using a nonlinear structural analysis program, and system reliability is evaluated as load vectors are simulated ...

Abstract: The concept of disaster-resilient communities has gained considerable acceptance and attention over the past decade, requiring the assessment of not only the monetary losses surrounding a hazard, but also the complex, ...

Abstract: There has been a long-standing desire to identify classes or groupings of buildings that exhibit similar characteristics in response to seismic events. Regional earthquake loss models, post-earthquake safety evaluations, ...

Abstract: The concept of disaster-resilient communities has gained considerable acceptance and attention over the past decade, requiring the assessment of not only the monetary losses surrounding a hazard, but also the complex, ...

Abstract: Various creep rupture damage accumulation models are reviewed, and two recent models proposed by Barrett and Foschi are investigated in detail. Two different stochastic load models are then developed. One is for roof snow ...