ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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Reliability Analysis of Vertically Loaded Piles Using Conditional Random Fields
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractSoil has spatial variability, which means that soil properties at two spatial points are correlated but different. Reliability analysis and risk evaluation of vertically loaded pile in spatially variable soils is ... -
Blockchain for Collapse Risk Assessment of Undersea Rock Tunnel
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractRisk assessment of undersea tunnel collapse is very important for tunnel construction safety. Because the existing methods cannot guarantee the accuracy and authenticity of relevant on-site data, they limit the ... -
Gaussian Process with Bayesian Kernel Selection for Seismic Attenuation Modeling
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractModeling seismic attenuation relationships aims to estimate expected ground motion at a given site from earthquakes, which is important for seismic hazard assessment and disaster mitigation. The complex nature of ... -
Parameter-Specific Uncertainty Partitioning in Seismic Fragility Assessment of Highway Bridges Using Heteroskedastic Metamodels
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractAt present, substantial literature exists on vulnerability assessment of bridges involving metamodels that capture homoskedastic uncertainty; however, there is negligible research on heteroskedastic response ... -
Sleeve Grouting Process Risk Forecasting Based on System Dynamics for Industrialized Building Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThe sleeve grouting process in prefabricated buildings is often affected by various factors due to its complex environment, and the lack of data and systematic methods makes risk control challenging. The dynamic ... -
Fatigue Life Uncertainty Evaluation of Steel Box Girder Considering Time-Varying Model of Vehicle Load and Bridge
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThe failure risk of steel box girders gradually increases during service due to the accumulation of fatigue load effects and the deterioration of fatigue resistance. Reliability evaluation is an effective method ... -
Network Causality–Based Decision Support for Power Grid Resilience Considering Braess’s Paradox
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractWorldwide large-scale power outages caused by earthquakes and associated damage to nearby facilities have prompted the need for proactive measures to improve the seismic resilience of power grids. It is noted that ... -
Critical Factors and Configurations Influencing Construction Accident Occurrences: Insights for Safety Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractConstruction accidents frequently result in injuries and deaths, causing substantial economic losses and adverse social impacts. The causal analysis of construction accidents is pivotal to capturing the focus of ... -
Topological Analytics of Large North American Railroad Networks: Length-Weighted Average Distance, Eccentricity, and Related Attributes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractNetwork metrics are proposed for determining and comparing the average distance and eccentricity of large topological networks through the application of shortest path algorithms, such as for a large railroad network ... -
Risk Analysis of an EPC Project Involving Prefabricated Green Rural Housing from the Stakeholder Perspective: Case Study in Changfeng County, Anhui Province, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractRisk analysis of engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) projects involving prefabricated green rural housing is an important prerequisite for project risk management and sustainable development of rural ... -
Fragility Analysis of Super-Span Cable-Stayed Bridge under Random Field Excitation of Ground Motions Based on Efficient KR-α Algorithm
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractAs the key hubs of transportation systems, cable-stayed bridges have been widely constructed in recent years due to their advantages including efficient load distribution and economic benefits of spanning long ... -
Establishment of Risk Management Groups in Construction Based on Workers’ Age and Accident Probability Using Unsupervised Learning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThe construction industry is currently experiencing increased risks due to the aging workforce. As workers age, their physical capabilities often decline, leading to an increased likelihood of accidents. Despite ... -
Active Subspace–Enhanced Support Vector Regression Model for High-Dimensional Probabilistic Uncertainty Propagation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThe computational costs of surrogate model–assisted uncertainty quantification methods become intractable for high-dimensional problems. However, many high-dimensional problems are intrinsically low-dimensional if ... -
Capacity Spectrum Method for Buildings with Viscoelastic Dampers Using Developed Equivalent Damping Ratio Formula
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractA proposed formula based on the square root of the sum of the squares was derived in this research to combine the hysteresis and viscous damping in structures equipped with viscoelastic dampers (VEDs). To validate ... -
Modeling the Influence of Social Vulnerability and Financial Resources on Housing Functionality Restoration
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThe postdisaster recovery of residential building functionality is a complex process that depends on the extent of physical damage, the availability of utilities, and the ability of the household to secure financial ... -
Development of a Safety Management Rating Model for Medium-Scale Projects in Developing Countries
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThe construction industry exhibits a notably high injury and fatality rate compared to other industries. The accident rate in developing countries is higher than in developed countries due to poor construction ... -
Advances in the Reliability Analysis of Coherent Systems under Limited Data with Confidence Boxes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper proposes an uncertainty quantification framework that enables the analyst to compute statistically calibrated confidence bounds of the reliability of coherent systems, even in the case in which the data are ... -
Analysis of Deformation Characteristics of Layered Rock Tunnel Excavation Based on Statistical Mechanics of Rock Masses
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Layered rock mass is prevalent in tunnel engineering, where deformation and failure of surrounding rock are primarily governed by discontinuity structural planes, leading to significant anisotropy in deformation and strength ... -
Multiway Analytics Applied to Railway Track Geometry and Ballast Conditions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Railroad systems generate large amounts of data, which, when effectively analyzed, can significantly enhance maintenance decisions to improve safety and system performance. Tensor decomposition, as an advanced multidimensional ... -
Recalibration of LRFD Resistance Factors for Driven Steel Piles at End of Drive Conditions in Alberta, Canada
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The geotechnical resistance factor (GRF) is an important parameter used as a part of the implementation of the load and resistance factor design (LRFD) method. This paper presents the improvement of the GRF used in the ...