ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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Seaport Hazardous Cargo Loading and Unloading Risk Assessment Using Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Bayesian Networks
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)Manifold calamitous consequences of seaport hazardous cargo accidents have raised grave trepidation over the safe management of hazardous cargo. Fewer investigations have aimed at the multifaceted risk associated with ... -
Distributionally Robust Budget Allocation for Earthquake Risk Mitigation in Buildings
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)Destructive earthquakes are rare, high-impact, uncertain events. When they occur, the physical infrastructure is damaged, resulting in major economic losses. Risk mitigation planning aims to prevent extreme adverse effects ... -
Causal Inference–Based Study of Key Contributors to Industrial Accidents
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)This paper aims to study the causal relationships among several prevailing factors and the three main dimensions of the consequences of industrial accidents that involve hazardous materials. Relying on data of the Major ... -
Rainfall-Induced Probability of Failure in Spatially Variable Soil Slopes and a Case Study of the Konkan Railway Slope Failure
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)A novel framework was developed for the stability analysis of spatially variable slopes under rainfall by approximating the performance function in standard normal space by a second-order surface at the design point. ... -
Capturing Spatiotemporal Progression of Corrosion to Estimate Life-Cycle Seismic Resilience of RC Bridges
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)Corrosion is a major threat to RC bridges for their lifelong safety and sustainability. This article investigates the spatiotemporal progression of corrosion degradation in piers of a RC bridge and estimates its impact on ... -
Hybrid Bayesian Networks for Reliability Assessment of Infrastructure Systems
(ASCE, 2024/06/01)Bayesian networks (BNs) facilitate the establishment and communication of complex and large probabilistic models that are best characterized through local dependences and hierarchical structures. In addition, they enable ... -
Navigational Risk of Inland Water Transportation: A Case Study in the Songhua River, China
(ASCE, 2023/12/01)Compared with ocean transportation, inland waterway transportation (IWT) has issues such as a low configuration standard of navigation equipment, insufficient crew knowledge and skills, and the relatively more complex ... -
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 ... -
Probability of Failure of High-Rise Buildings Equipped with Magnetorheological Dampers by Considering Uncertainty in Stationary and Nonstationary Earthquakes
(ASCE, 2023/12/01)In this study, the reliability analysis of magnetorheological (MR) dampers in semiactive control of structural responses under uncertainty in seismic excitation is investigated. Uncertainties in the input earthquake exerted ... -
Application of Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Packet Transform for Generating Synthetic Multivariate Nonstationary Non-Gaussian Thunderstorm Wind Records
(ASCE, 2023/12/01)The available thunderstorm wind records with subsecond sampling intervals is scarce for a given site; stochastic models that can be used to sample multivariate nonstationary non-Gaussian thunderstorm winds at multiple ... -
Climate Change Impact on Seismic Vulnerability of Aging Highway Bridges
(ASCE, 2023/12/01)The lateral load–carrying capacity of highway bridges is adversely affected by corrosion deterioration of reinforced concrete (RC) bridge piers during earthquakes. Recent studies reveal that increased global warming due ... -
Multilevel Multiplicative Interval Uncertainty in Linear Structural Analysis
(ASCE, 2023/12/01)Interval treatments of uncertainty are plagued by dependency issues in their implementation. Ignoring the dependency among interval values can lead to a significant overestimation of the bounds on calculated uncertain ... -
Fall Risk Assessment for Vertical Formwork Activities in Construction
(ASCE, 7/18/2023 )Vertical formwork in construction accounts for many fatal falls and injuries, among all other activities. Experts believe that an effective risk assessment could enhance safety performance by preventing accidents and ... -
Impact of Multivariate Cross-Correlation between Soil Parameters on Maximum Longitudinal Deformation of an Operating Tunnel Induced by Ground Surface Surcharge
(ASCE, 8/10/2023 )Existing tunnels are inevitably disturbed by adjacent engineering projects, with ground surface surcharge accounting for the largest proportion. Meanwhile, the influence of spatial variability of soil parameters on tunnel ... -
Experimental Study on the Spatial Variability of Concrete by the Core Test and Rebound Hammer Test
(ASCE, 8/8/2023 1)For the nonlinear analyses of concrete structures, the complete compressive stress-strain curve of concrete is the key basis. Spatial variability is one of the significant characteristics of the mechanical properties of ... -
Numerical and Experimental Investigation of a Correlation Model to Describe Spatial Variability of Concrete Properties
(ASCE, 8/11/2023 )The heterogeneous character of concrete results in spatial variation of its material properties. Random field models are often used to account for this effect. Due to the large scatter on the correlation lengths suggested ... -
The Evaluation of Seafarer Fatigue as a Performance-Shaping Factor in the Maritime HRA Method
(ASCE, 8/23/2023 )In maritime studies, seafarer fatigue has been proven to be an important risk factor that affects human performance and leads to human errors. However, in the development of human reliability analysis (HRA) for the maritime ... -
Adaptive Sampling-Based Bayesian Model Updating for Bridges Considering Substructure Approach
(ASCE, 6/29/2023 )During long-term bridge monitoring, model updating is necessary because it provides the basis for accurate condition assessment and damage detection. In this study, an adaptive sampling-based Bayesian model updating method ... -
Probabilistic Analysis and Time Variation Model of Concrete Compressive Strength in Existing Buildings
(ASCE, 7/12/2023 )Probabilistic analysis and time variation model of concrete compressive strength in existing buildings were conducted based on relevant site testing data. The data were collected from rebound hammer (RH) method and core ... -
Scale Effect on the Apparent Anisotropic Hydraulic Conductivity of Geomaterials
(ASCE, 6/5/2023 1)Properties of geomaterials often exhibit stratification and anisotropy due to various influencing factors such as weathering and sedimentation. However, the measurement of anisotropy is a difficult task since anisotropy ...