ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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Erratum for “Estimating Peaks of Stationary Random Processes: A Peaks-over-Threshold Approach” by Dat Duthinh, Adam L. Pintar, and Emil Simiu
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Characterization of Coastal Flood Damage States for Residential Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Risk management programs and catastrophe models use fragility and vulnerability curves extensively. For the case of coastal flood events, the independent variable for these damage functions is usually the inundation depth, ... -
Reliability Analysis Using Adaptive Kriging Surrogates with Multimodel Inference
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)This work addresses the issue of model selection in adaptive kriging-based Monte Carlo reliability analysis. It is shown that arbitrary model selection (kriging trend and correlation) can lead to poor probability of failure ... -
Resilience Assessment of Urban Communities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The multiple uncertainties of both natural and human-caused disasters have attracted increased attention to the topic of resilience engineering. In this paper, an indicator-based method for measuring urban community ... -
Optimal Seismic Upgrade Timing in Seaports with Increasing Throughput Demand via Real Options
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)A real options (RO) formulation is proposed for decision making on the timing to upgrade the seismic performance of existing seaports with increasing throughput demand in earthquake-prone areas. The payoff for the seismic ... -
Assessing Resilience Model Responsiveness in the Context of Stakeholder Preferences in Decision Support Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)From Presidential Policy Directive 21, professional societies’ national meetings, to major United Nations initiatives, resilience has captured the attention of powerful stakeholders. Resilience models focus on system ... -
Effect of Intrinsic and Epistemic Uncertainties on the Multiobjective Optimal Design of a Hyperstatic Structure
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Although variability in material properties and loading conditions is commonly accounted for in safety and reliability studies, this is not the case for model assumptions. In addition, many other uncertainties affect the ... -
Community-Resilience-Based Design of the Built Environment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Current design codes and standards in the United States focus on the design of individual facilities and do not account for other coupled physical and nonphysical infrastructure. This does not provide a direct mechanism ... -
Societal Risk and Resilience Analysis: Dynamic Bayesian Network Formulation of a Capability Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The operation of modern societies relies on the functionality of complex infrastructure such as those for potable water, electric power, and transportation. Difficulty in accessing life-supporting resources due to the loss ... -
Probability Distribution of Maximum Load Generated by Stochastic Hazards Modeled as Shock, Pulse, and Alternating Renewal Processes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The distribution of the maximum load generated by stochastic and recurring hazards is of primary importance in structural reliability analysis. In the current literature, this distribution is estimated by either relying ... -
Optimal Sampling Placement in a Gaussian Random Field Based on Value of Information
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)In the context of sampling, monitoring, and sensing in infrastructures, there is an interest in algorithms to produce an observation plan that is cost effective, while maximizing the benefits of the new observations. This ... -
Bayesian Stochastic Soil Modeling Framework Using Gaussian Markov Random Fields
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Stochastic soil modeling aims to provide reasonable mean, variance, and spatial correlation of soil properties with quantified uncertainty. Because of difficulties in integrating limited and imperfect prior knowledge ... -
Structural Health Monitoring Sensor Network Optimization through Bayesian Experimental Design
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Structural health monitoring (SHM) may be exploited to estimate the mechanical properties of existing structures and check for potential damage. Among commonly used methodologies for property characterization, the Bayesian ... -
Seismic Reliability of Highway Transportation Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Assessment of the reliability of lifelines under seismic loads requires particular attention, since the proper functioning of these systems during or after a destructive earthquake is very important. The main objective of ... -
Scenario-Based Preferences in Development of Advanced Mobile Grid Services and a Bidirectional Charger Network
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)A coordinated network of bidirectional chargers can be useful to improve grid stability and resilience and provide revenues to owner/operators of fleets of electric vehicles. This paper quantifies the resilience of a ... -
Epistemic Uncertainties in Fragility Functions Derived from Post-Disaster Damage Assessments
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Fragility functions define the probability of meeting or exceeding some damage measure (DM) for a given level of engineering demand (e.g., base shear) or hazard intensity measure (IM; e.g., wind speed, and peak ... -
Uncertainties in Modeling Undrained Shear Strength of Sensitive Clays Using Finite-Element Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The present paper deals with uncertainties related to modeling undrained shear strength of soft sensitive clays using finite-element effective stress–based soil models. Two effective stress soil models, the isotropic Soft ... -
Efficient Approach to System-Level Reliability-Based Design Optimization of Large-Scale Uncertain and Dynamic Wind-Excited Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This paper is focused on the development of an efficient system-level reliability-based design optimization strategy for uncertain wind-excited building systems characterized by high-dimensional design variable vectors (in ... -
Time Management of Infrastructure Recovery Schedules by Anticipation and Valuation of Disruptions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)A key project management capability is time management, prioritizing activities in time while tracking emergent and future conditions along with the influences of those conditions on project metrics. The research objective ... -
Safety Assessment of Gravity Load–Designed Reinforced Concrete–Framed Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)A large number of gravity load–designed (GLD) reinforced concrete (RC) buildings are found in many seismic-prone countries including India. Many of them were built before the advent of seismic codes or with the utilization ...