Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems: Assessment, Design, and Life-Cycle Performance

by Frangopol; Dan M.

• ISBN13: 9780415406550
• ISBN10: 0415406552
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781482262933
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-28
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Focussing on structural reliability methods, reliability-based optimization, structural system reliability and risk analysis, lifetime performance and various applications in civil engineering. Invaluable to all concerned with structural system reliability and optimization, especially students, engineers, and workers in research and development.

Table of Contents

Preface
Optimization and reliability problems in structural design of wind turbines	p. 3
Life-cycle performance and cost analysis of bridge network considering seismic risk	p. 15
Exchangeable condition slates and Bayesian reliability updating	p. 27
Practical assessments of risk and its uncertainty	p. 45
Sampling strategies to detect threshold excursions in random fields	p. 53
Role of uncertainties in the lifetime performance of concrete structures	p. 63
Lifetime optimization of deteriorating structures	p. 73
Seismic reliability functions for complex systems based on a secant-stiffness reduction index	p. 83
Redundancy and robustness of structures: A retrospective	p. 91
Case study of a hands-on inspection for optimal maintenance planning for railway bridges	p. 101
Condition rating methodology on RC bridges with chloride induced deterioration	p. 113
A new performance-based maintenance approach for infrastructures	p. 123
Earthquake-proof reliability-based design for steel rigid-frame piers of highway bridges	p. 133
Effect of dynamic wheel loads on fatigue performance of RC slabs	p. 143
Effect of uncertainty in cross-sectional property on reliability-based topology optimization of frame structures	p. 153
The applications of the third-order normal polynomial to structural reliability assessment	p. 163
Bridge live load effects based on statistics of extremes using on-site load monitoring	p. 173
Non-Gaussianity of structural resistance in the directional simulation in load space	p. 181
Optimal strengthening of RC bridges with degradation in safety due to chloride induced deterioration	p. 191
Evaluation of seismic performance of highway bridge system by Multi-State System approach	p. 201
Optimal condition control of systems comprised of multiple homogeneous components	p. 211
An investigation on story failure modes of frame structures	p. 219
Elasto-plastic response of steel bridge pier base joint under seismic loading	p. 227
Modelling the loss of steel-concrete bonds in corroded reinforced concrete beams	p. 233
Random vibrations and peak response of a shear beam under high frequency seismic effects	p. 241
Case studies on determination of load and resistance factors by method of moments	p. 249
A method for computing reliability bound of series structural systems	p. 259
Author index	p. 269
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