ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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Advances in the Reliability Analysis of Coherent Systems under Limited Data with Confidence Boxes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper proposes an uncertainty quantification framework that enables the analyst to compute statistically calibrated confidence bounds of the reliability of coherent systems, even in the case in which the data are ... -
Analysis of Deformation Characteristics of Layered Rock Tunnel Excavation Based on Statistical Mechanics of Rock Masses
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Layered rock mass is prevalent in tunnel engineering, where deformation and failure of surrounding rock are primarily governed by discontinuity structural planes, leading to significant anisotropy in deformation and strength ... -
Multiway Analytics Applied to Railway Track Geometry and Ballast Conditions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Railroad systems generate large amounts of data, which, when effectively analyzed, can significantly enhance maintenance decisions to improve safety and system performance. Tensor decomposition, as an advanced multidimensional ... -
Recalibration of LRFD Resistance Factors for Driven Steel Piles at End of Drive Conditions in Alberta, Canada
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The geotechnical resistance factor (GRF) is an important parameter used as a part of the implementation of the load and resistance factor design (LRFD) method. This paper presents the improvement of the GRF used in the ... -
Robustness of Urban Rail Transit Networks Considering Cascade Failure under Attacks: A Case Study of Nanjing, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Urban rail transit (URT) has become one of the main carriers to undertake passenger transportation tasks in large and medium-sized cities. However, station failures can reduce the efficiency of passenger travel and the ... -
Bayesian Back Analysis of Spatial Variability with Machine Learning Surrogates
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Geotechnical sensors provide the advantage of directly monitoring model responses that accurately reflect field conditions. Within these field monitoring data lies the latent potential to glean insights into soil parameters. ... -
Data-Driven Stochastic Fatigue Load Modeling for Fatigue Failure Simulation of Onshore Wind Turbine Foundations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Assessing fatigue damage in onshore wind turbine foundations is crucial for ensuring the safety of the entire wind turbine system. While indirect simulations of fatigue damage based on upper structure wind loads have been ... -
Identification of Causes and Individuals at Risk of Falls during Vertical Formwork Operation in Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The construction sector contributes to the occurrence of fatal falls and injuries. Experts believe that identifying the causes and individuals at risk of falls has the potential to prevent/minimize falls on-site. While ... -
Robust Optimum Design for Hybrid Vibration Control of Structures under Multihazard Scenarios of Earthquakes and Winds
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Vibration control of structures under multiple hazards poses severe problems due to the inherent variability in the features of the different hazards. A robust optimum design of a hybrid vibration controller (HVC) comprising ... -
Multilevel Damage Indicator–Enabled Seismic Damage Evolution Analysis and Fragility Assessment of Structures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The current performance-based seismic evaluation methodologies can be broadly classified into three categories based on the adopted indicators: displacement-based seismic evaluation, energy-based seismic evaluation, and ... -
Interval Fields for Geotechnical Engineering Uncertainty Analysis under Limited Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Spatial uncertainty is a critical challenge in many engineering fields. To date, probabilistic methods have been applied to describe the uncertainty of engineering parameters with considerable achievements. However, they ... -
Probabilistic Analysis of Performance of Three-Dimensional Supported Excavations Considering Soil Spatial Variability
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Supported excavation systems are common geotechnical structures and play a crucial role in satisfying increasing requirements for highly efficient usage of underground space with the trend of urbanization around the world. ... -
Gaussian Process Regression–Based Model Error Diagnosis and Quantification Using Experimental Data of Prestressed Concrete Beams in Shear
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)To facilitate considering model uncertainty for rigorous reliability/probabilistic analysis, this paper proposed a Gaussian process regression–based (GPR-based) model error quantification framework and applied to shear ... -
Quantitative Analysis of Risk Influential Factors of Evacuation Accidents for Passenger Ships
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)With the increasing use of passenger ships in passenger transport and tourism sighting, the risk of evacuation accidents is higher. To prevent such accidents and reduce casualties, a quantitative analysis method for ... -
Advance Rate Predictions of Tunnel Boring Machines Using Bayesian-Optimized CNN-LSTM
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)During the tunnelling process of a tunnel boring machine (TBM), accurately predicting the advance rate (AR) is highly desirable for enhancing construction efficiency and safety. Inaccurate AR estimates may lead to extended ... -
Active Learning of Small Failure Probabilities of Highly Nonstationary Geotechnical Systems by Adaptive Bayesian Compressive Sensing and Subset Simulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Estimating small failure probabilities in complex geotechnical systems with highly nonstationary responses and time-consuming models is a significant challenge. The nonparametric adaptive Bayesian compressive sensing Monte ... -
System Reliability–Based Disaster Resilience Analysis of Cable-Stayed Bridge under Tank Truck Fire Hazards
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The concept of disaster resilience has emerged to describe the holistic ability of civil infrastructure systems to withstand various hazards by preventing initial disruptions, progressive failures, and critical long-term ... -
Early-Warning Model for Ice Formation on Environmentally Friendly Antifreeze Asphalt Pavement Using Support Vector Machines
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Adding antifreeze filler to the asphalt mixture can make the road surface have a certain automatic snow-melting function, but the snow-melting effect of antifreeze asphalt pavement (AFAP) is greatly affected by the ... -
Critical Causal Path Analysis of Subway Construction Safety Accidents Based on Text Mining
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Due to the frequent occurrence of subway construction safety accidents in recent years, construction workers face great safety threat, which produces serious social hazards. The causes of subway construction safety accidents ... -
Decomposition of the Hierarchical Variability of Concrete Random Fields and Its Influence on the Hysteretic Behavior of Structural Components
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Due to factors like heterogeneity, curing conditions, and production processes, concrete in structures exhibits hierarchical variability and spatial correlation. However, in engineering practice, when considering the ...