ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Nondeterministic High-Cycle Fatigue Macromodel Updating and Failure Probability Analysis of Welded Joints of Long-Span Structures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Unlike previous models that do not consider uncertainties, this paper proposes a new nondeterministic method to estimate the high-cycle fatigue (HCF) resistance of welded hollow spherical joints (WHSJs) in long-span ... -
Interval Predictor Model for the Survival Signature Using Monotone Radial Basis Functions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This research describes a novel method for approximating the survival signature for very large systems. In recent years, the survival signature has emerged as a capable tool for the reliability analysis of critical ... -
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 ... -
Modeling of Chloride Spatial Variability in a Reinforced Concrete Wharf from Onsite Measurements
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Chloride ingress by diffusion is the major deterioration process of reinforced concrete (RC) structures exposed to the marine environment. These structures have significant lengths or surfaces exposed to the outside ... -
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 ... -
Gaussian Mixture–Based Autoregressive Error Model with a Conditionally Heteroscedastic Hierarchical Framework for Bayesian Updating of Structures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The heteroscedastic Bayesian model updating framework assigned different variances to the modal errors using heteroscedastic parameters modeled by gamma distributions. However, the error density shows significant asymmetry, ... -
Optimum Design of Hybrid Base Isolation and Tuned Liquid Damper Systems for Structures under Near-Fault Ground Motions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Near-fault movements produce earthquakes with very large displacements, which are known for their destructive properties. The increase in the number of stories of a structure isolated from the base increases the weight of ...