Browsing ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering by Title
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A Data-Driven Physics-Informed Method for Prognosis of Infrastructure Systems: Theory and Application to Crack Prediction
(ASCE, 2020)Infrastructure systems are the backbones of the socioeconomic development of a community. However, after installation, these engineered systems undergo deterioration, leading to a degradation in their condition while in ... -
A Decision Support Methodology for Seismic Design Requirements of Buildings to Achieve Community-Level Resilience Metrics
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Communities can face devastation from earthquakes, including loss of lives, destruction of infrastructure, and damage to buildings. By implementing rigorous standards, communities can ensure that both new and existing ... -
A Design Live Load Model for Long-Span Bridges Based on Traffic Data and Simulations
(ASCE, 2022/12/01)Current design codes for long-span bridges rely on the conservative live load models developed based on the assumed severe traffic congestion scenarios. To properly consider the site-specific traffic environment in designs ... -
A Fragility-Weighted Topological Network for Resilient Assessment of Overhead Power Distribution System Subjected to Hurricane Winds
(ASCE, 2022-03-22)Extreme weather events with an increased frequency have caused widespread damages to overhead power distribution systems (OPDS), an essential lifeline infrastructure, resulting in enormous societal and economic losses for ... -
A Fuzzy Bayesian Network–Based Method for Evaluating the Leakage Risk of STS LNG Bunkering
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)As a promising clean fuel, the liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been considered as the alternative energy for ships and the LNG-fueled vessels has sharply increased in recent years. However, the leakage of LNG has become a ... -
A Hierarchical Bayesian Network Model for Flood Resilience Quantification of Housing Infrastructure Systems
(ASCE, 3/1/2021)Resilience is defined as the capacity of a system to withstand a natural hazard and to regain desirable performance after the occurrence of such disasters. Natural hazards, such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, and ... -
A MMEM-BN–Based Analyzing Framework for Causal Analysis of Ship Collisions
(ASCE, 2024/06/01)Exploring the causes and evolution of ship collisions plays an important role in accident prevention and risk control. This paper proposes a hybrid analyzing framework based on man–machine–environment–management (MMEM) and ... -
A Network-Wide Bilevel Optimization-Simulation Approach for Variable Speed Limit Systems to Improve Travel Time Reliability
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A New Adaptive Rejection Sampling Method Using Kernel Density Approximations and Its Application to Subset Simulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)In stochastic analysis of engineering systems, the task of generating samples according to a target probability distribution involving some performance function of the system response often arises. This paper introduces ... -
A Novel Air Curtain Mitigation System for a Toxic Gas Storage Tank
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)A mitigation system is significant in that it blocks the flow of toxic gas and prevents the growth of hazardous areas, thereby securing sufficient evacuation time. A new air curtain mitigation system was developed to prevent ... -
A Novel Integrated Method for the Risk Assessment of Ship-to-Ship LNG Bunkering Operations
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)In recent years, liquefied natural gas (LNG) gradually has become an alternative fuel for ships. For targeted safety management of ship-to-ship LNG bunkering, this study developed a new method to identify, quantify, and ... -
A Practical Bayesian Framework for Structural Model Updating and Prediction
(ASCE, 2021-10-20)Due to the influence of various uncertain factors, there will inevitably be certain errors between the prediction of finite-element (FE) model and observed data for a target structure. It is thus necessary to calibrate the ... -
A Probabilistic Framework for Resilience Quantification of Residential Building Portfolios Exposed to Tropical Cyclone Winds
(ASCE, 2023/12/01)Residential buildings in coastal areas often suffer from dramatic cyclone-induced damages. Resilience analysis is a powerful tool to quantify the object’s (e.g., a building portfolio’s) ability to withstand disruptive ... -
A Probabilistic Method for Integrating Physics-Based and Data-Driven Storm Outage Prediction Models for Power Systems
(ASCE, 2024/06/01)To predict power outages for upcoming storm events and assess the resilience of power systems, accurate models of power outage probabilities are necessary. Although physics-based fragility models have been developed to ... -
A Probabilistic Risk Assessment Approach for Surface Settlement Caused by Metro Tunnel Construction Using Credal Network
(ASCE, 2022/07/12)The epistemic uncertainty of geological condition, hydrological condition, and human factors causes the risk assessment result of metro construction to be imprecise. To reveal the epistemic uncertainty, a probabilistic ... -
A Quasi-Binomial Regression Model for Hurricane-Induced Power Outages during Early Warning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Hurricanes can cause devastating damage to overhead distribution lines leading to large power outages in electric grids. Power outage prediction models can help utilities to plan for an expedited power recovery by identifying ... -
A Simulation Model for Container Ships Scheduling in Qinzhou Port under Seamless Connection Mode
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Qinzhou Port in China is witnessing a continuous increase in visiting ships, especially container ships. This results in the increase of ship waiting time, and enhancing the handling efficiency for container ships becomes ... -
A Vine-Copula Model for Time Series of Significant Wave Heights and Mean Zero-Crossing Periods in the North Sea
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Stochastic descriptions and simulations of oceanographic variables are essential for coastal and marine engineering applications. In the past decade, copula-based approaches have become increasingly popular for estimating ... -
Accurate Structural Reliability Analysis Using an Improved Line-Sampling-Method-Based Slime Mold Algorithm
(ASCE, 6/1/2021)Line sampling (LS) is a robust and powerful simulation technique to reduce the computational burden provided by Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) for the reliability analysis of engineering structures. However, when dealing ... -
Adaptive Hermite Distribution Model with Probability-Weighted Moments for Seismic Reliability Analysis of Nonlinear Structures
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)In this paper, an adaptive Hermite distribution model with probability-weighted moments (PWMs) is proposed for evaluating the extreme-value distribution (EVD) of response, which serves as the basis of seismic reliability ...