Abstract: In an unpublished 1990 work, H. O. Madsen interpreted the upcrossing rate of scalar stochastic processes as a particular sensitivity measure of the failure probability associated with a suitably modeled parallel system. ...

Abstract: An exact expression for the mean outcrossing rate of a Gaussian vector process from two‐dimensional elliptical regions is derived. The expression is exact under the assumption that the cross correlation between process ...

Abstract: The mean rate of vector processes out‐crossing safe domains is calculated using methods from time‐independent reliability theory. The method is founded on a result for scalar up‐crossing derived by Madsen. The out‐crossing ...

Abstract: Simultaneous wave and current measurements on the Norwegian Shelf were used to estimate the appropriate current to associate with extreme waves in platform design. The primary data consisted of seven years of measurements ...