ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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Enhancing Reliability of Construction Contingency Estimation at the Scoping Phase through Historical Cost Data Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Accurate estimates of construction contingency, a vital element that accounts for unforeseen additional expenses during building, are crucial for construction project agencies. In the initial planning phase, with project ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Data-Driven Shear Capacity Prediction of Reinforced Concrete Deep Beams with an Uncertainty-Aware Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Data-driven approaches based on machine learning (ML) have become progressively popular for the shear capacity prediction of reinforced concrete (RC) deep beams because the fine-tuned ML models could mostly outperform 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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
System Dynamics–Based Construction Risk Analysis of a Coastal Ribbon Landscape Project
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Growing coastal populations intensify environmental stress and pollution. Effective coastal ecological landscape construction is essential for the revival and enhancement of marine ecosystems. Despite this, compared with ... -
Short-Term Forecasting of Transit Travel Demand: A Customized Relevance Vector Machine Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Accurate forecasting of short-term travel demand is essential for the development of intelligent transportation systems. This paper studies the short-term forecasting of transit travel demand by proposing a customized ... -
Seismic Reliability Assessment Framework for Unsaturated Soil Slope under Near-Fault Pulse-Like Ground Motion
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The seismic reliability of soil slopes in geohazard-prone regions, particularly under near-fault earthquake conditions, poses a significant challenge. This challenge is exacerbated by the scarcity of pulse-like ground-motion ... -
Seismic Control and Performance Assessment of Isolated Bridges Using Integration of Negative Stiffness and Inerter-Based Supplemental Control Devices
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The present study introduces inerter-based absorbers (IVAs), negative stiffness dampers (NSDs), and their synergistic combination as supplemental control strategies for a multispan continuous deck isolated bridge structure. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Robust Modeling of Earthquake Catastrophe Risk for Insurance: An Integrated Approach Incorporating Active Faults and an Epidemic-Type Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Typically, the assessment of seismic risk premium relies heavily on the spatiotemporal model of seismic events. While most actuarial approaches concentrate on models with simpler dynamics, such as the homogeneous Poisson ... -
Reliability of Steel Girder Bridges Subjected to Blast Loads
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A reliability model was developed and used for the probabilistic assessment of typical steel girder bridge structural systems exposed to blast loads. Blast load scenarios and failure criteria were based on field observations ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Protocol for the Validation of Models for Regional Risk Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Regional risk analysis provides information for decisions made by communities, state and federal agencies, and the insurance industry. The analyses involve comprehensive prediction models, including nested models in complex ... -
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. ... -
Performance-Based Risk Assessment for Large-Scale Transportation Networks Using the Transitional Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Accurately assessing failure risk due to asset deterioration and/or extreme events is essential for efficient transportation asset management. Traditional risk assessment is conducted for individual assets by either focusing ...