ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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Fractal Dimensions for Freight Railroad Network Resilience Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractEnhancing the US freight rail networks’ resilience is critical for maintaining efficient transportation infrastructure. This research proposes a methodology that focuses on improving US freight rail networks’ ... -
Exact Benchmark Solutions of Stochastic Responses and Reliabilities of Structures via the Probability Density Integral Equation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractExact analytical benchmarks of structural stochastic responses and reliability are desirable but have intractable issues. To avoid calculations of inverse mappings and its Jacobian in a change-of-variable formula, ... -
Assessing Typhoon Extreme Wind Speed with Long-Term Future Sea Surface Temperature Projections under CMIP6
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThis study investigates the potential impacts of long-term sea surface temperature (SST) climate change on typhoon extreme wind speeds using a typhoon track model based on six climate projection scenarios from the ... -
Structural Identification by Bayesian Neural Network with the Most Probable Architecture
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractIn this work, neural networks (NNs) are used for structural identification by constructing the relationship between experimental data and structural properties. One problem is how to choose an appropriate NN ... -
Two-Stage Framework Combining Derivative-Free MCMC Sampling and Transport Maps for Black-Box Bayesian Inverse Problems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThis study addresses the challenge of estimating Bayesian posterior distributions, a key task in uncertainty quantification, particularly within settings where the mapping from parameters to observations is a black ... -
Fast and Scalable Likelihood-Free Bayesian Model Updating for Multiple-Measurement Data via Conditional Invertible Neural Network and Posterior Stacking
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractBayesian model updating (BMU) is widely used in structural health monitoring (SHM) to calibrate model parameters and quantify uncertainties. However, a key challenge in BMU is the intractability of the likelihood ... -
Two-Step Algorithmic Adaptive Particle Filter for System Identification of Sudden Structural Damage
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThis paper proposes a new algorithmic adaptive tracking rule to advance the applicability of the particle filter (PF) algorithm for dynamic system identification of shear building structures undergoing abrupt ... -
Enhancing Seismic Resilience of Structures Using Optimally Designed Base-Isolated Impacting Vibration Absorbers with Resonator
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThe aim of this study is to design and optimize two kinds of base-isolated impacting vibration absorbers with resonator (BI-IVAR) to improve the seismic performance of building structures during seismic events. By ... -
Comparison of Approaches to Data-Driven Site Characterization in an Offshore Carbonate Soil Environment in North Western Australia
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThis study compares the performance of three novel data-driven site characterization methods to current engineering practice for modeling geotechnical variability, in terms of net tip pressure from piezocone ... -
Efficient Approach for the Stochastic Analysis and Reliability Assessment of Coupled Shear Wall Structures Using the Continuous Medium Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractCoupled shear walls (CSWs) are commonly employed in high-rise buildings to resist lateral loads. The continuous medium method (CMM) offers a rapid approximation to predict the dynamic behavior of CSW structures. ... -
Mitigating Typhoon Disruptions and Enhancing Port Infrastructure Performance: A Risk Assessment Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractPorts, positioned at the vital juncture of sea and land, are acutely vulnerable to external natural hazards such as typhoons, exposing them to significant risks and operational challenges. Assessing performance is ... -
Freeway Incident Duration Estimation and Temporal Instability Analysis Using Correlated Random Parameter Hazard-Based Model with Heterogeneity in Means and Variances
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractExcessive freeway incident duration may increase the risk of secondary incidents or lead to other uncertainties. Investigation of the influence of various factors on freeway incident duration is crucial for reducing ... -
Multisource Borehole Data Fusion for Stochastic Inversion of Seabed Stratigraphic Architecture Based on the Fuzzy Markov Chain
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractSignificant uncertainty in the traditional geological mapping of seabed stratigraphy exists due to the natural heterogeneity of marine sedimentary soils and the limited number of boreholes. In this study, the ... -
Resilience Evaluation of Existing Metro Stations Considering Adjacent Construction Disturbance Intensity: Methodology and Application
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractExisting metro stations (EMSs) are increasingly subject to disturbances from adjacent construction activities, posing significant threats to their operational safety. Resilience of EMSs throughout the disaster chain ... -
Uncertainty Quantification in Stochastic Subspace Identification Using a Simulation Method with DBSCAN-Based Outlier Detection
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThere are variance errors in the modal parameters estimated by stochastic subspace identification (SSI), with specified model order and time lag parameter. To quantify the variance of the identified modal parameters, ... -
Probability Sensitivity Estimation with Respect to Distribution Parameters via the Method of Moments
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThe method of moments (MoM) has been widely applied for reliability analysis, demonstrating both efficiency and accuracy for nonlinear and small failure probability problems. This contribution presents a method for ... -
Time–Frequency Representation and Spatial Correlation Model for Ground Motions with Different Fault Mechanisms
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThe different fault mechanisms of earthquakes can lead to distinct time–frequency representations of ground motions. Describing the time–frequency representation of ground motions involves utilizing the time–frequency ... -
Uncertainty Quantification for Earthquake and Tsunami Risk Analysis with Application to Valparaíso, Chile
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractIn a probabilistic analysis, epistemic uncertainties associated with modeling choices and limited data are accounted for, and their effect on the resulting risk metrics is quantified. In this paper, we address the ... -
Gaussian Process Regression Prediction Model for Vortex-Induced Vibration of Suspension Bridges Driven by Real Bridge Monitoring Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractVortex-induced vibration (VIV) is a great threat to the safety of vehicles traveling on large-span bridges, and has a certain impact on the structural safety and durability of bridges. It is very important to predict ... -
Cross-Entropy-Based Adaptive Concurrent Importance Sampling for Probabilistic Seismic Loss Analysis of Spatially Distributed Multistate Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractSpatially distributed infrastructure systems are crucial assets of a community, and thus assessing their risk under seismic hazards is essential. These assessments should be system-wide, regional, and probabilistic ...