ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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Asset Risk Management and Resilience for Flood Control, Hydropower, and Waterways
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Natural disasters in the past decade have encouraged agencies responsible for development and maintenance of infrastructure systems toward the accounting of risk and resilience in asset management, buying down risks to ... -
Inoperability Input-Output Modeling: Inventory Optimization and Resilience Estimation during Critical Events
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Assessing the ability of critical infrastructures to overcome shocks and optimizing their preparedness for critical events is a key factor in reducing damage, ensuring resilience, and mitigating monetary losses. When ... -
Patterns in Climate-Related Parameters as Proxy for Rainfall Deficiency and Aridity: Application to Burkina Faso
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)This work is aimed to propose a methodology for the identification of areas for which extreme climatological conditions may intensify aridity processes and rainfall deficiency. The proposed procedure, which is based on the ... -
Efficient Approach for the Reliability-Based Design of Linear Damping Devices for Seismic Protection of Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper presents an efficient reliability-based methodology for the seismic design of viscous/viscoelastic dissipative devices in independent and/or coupled buildings. The proposed methodology is consistent with modern ... -
Softening Duffing Oscillator Reliability Assessment Subject to Evolutionary Stochastic Excitation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)An approximate analytical technique for assessing the reliability of a softening Duffing oscillator subject to evolutionary stochastic excitation is developed. Specifically, relying on a stochastic averaging treatment of ... -
Simplified Seismic Analysis of Disordered Masonry Towers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The structural assessment of existing masonry towers under exceptional loads, such as earthquake loads, requires reliable and expedite methods of analysis. These approaches should take into account both the specific nonlinear ... -
Probabilistic Assessment of Debris Flow Peak Discharge by Monte Carlo Simulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The topographic and hydrologic parameters involved in the estimation of the debris flow peak discharge in a classical approach are usually assumed to be deterministic. As a result, in such approaches, the only uncertainty ... -
Multicriteria Decision Analysis Approach for Stochastic Ranking with Application to Network Resilience
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Stochastic ranking, or the ordered comparison of alternatives whose performance is measured with random variables, is often made by relating expected values. Doing so ignores variability in performance, leaving the possibility ... -
Performance-Based Seismic Design: Avant-Garde and Code-Compatible Approaches
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Current force-based codes for the seismic design of structures use design spectra and system-specific behavior factors to satisfy one or two predefined structural limit states . In contrast, performance-based seismic design ... -
Robust Prioritization Framework for Transport Infrastructure Adaptation Investments under Uncertainty of Climate Change
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)To create and sustain resilient infrastructure systems, decision makers must consider a changing climate in their design and maintenance planning. However, significant barriers exist to constrain the understanding and ... -
Reliability of Roof Panels in Coastal Areas Considering Effects of Climate Change and Embedded Corrosion of Metal Fasteners
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Roof panels have been recognized as the most vulnerable components in wood construction under hurricane events, which can result in enormous economic losses and human casualties. This paper presents a reliability analysis ... -
Numerical Investigations into the Value of Information in Lifecycle Analysis of Structural Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Preposterior analysis can be used to assess the potential of an experiment to enhance decision-making by providing information on parameters of the decision problem that are surrounded by epistemic uncertainties. The present ... -
Design of Geostructural Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper begins with an extensive review of the literature covering the development of design rules for geostructural systems, beginning with traditional global safety factors and developing through partial factors for ... -
Empirical Comparison of Two Methods for the Bayesian Update of the Parameters of Probability Distributions in a Two-Level Hybrid Probabilistic-Possibilistic Uncertainty Framework for Risk Assessment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)In this paper, the authors address the issue of updating in a Bayesian framework, the possibilistic representation of the epistemically uncertain parameters of (aleatory) probability distributions, as new information ... -
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and Borrowing Strength in Hierarchical Inverse Problems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Bayesian approaches to uncertainty quantification and information acquisition in hierarchically defined inverse problems are presented. The techniques comprise simple updating, staged estimation, and multilevel model ... -
Development of Flood Inundation Maps and Quantification of Flood Risk in an Urban Catchment of Brahmaputra River
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Flood inundation mapping (FIM) is required to understand the affects of flooding in a particular area and on important structures such as roadways, railways, streets, buildings and airport. FIM provides important information, ... -
Introduction to the Aims and Scope of the Journal
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Fuzzy Logic Approach to Risk Assessment Associated with Concrete Deterioration
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Analysis of Washington, DC, Wind and Temperature Extremes with Examination of Climate Change for Engineering Applications
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