Reliability and optimization of structural systems assessment, design, and life-cycle performance : proceedings of the thirteenth IFIP WG 7.5 Working Conference on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems Kobe, Japan, Japan, October 11-14 2006

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author IFIP WG 7.5 Working Conference Kobe, Japan
Other Authors Frangopol, Dan M., Kawatani, Mitsuo, Kim, Chul-Woo
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London : Taylor & Francis, 2007.
SeriesBalkema-proceedings and monographs in engineering, water, and earth sciences.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780203932216
9780415406550
Physical Description1 online zdroj (x, 269 pages) : illustrations.

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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • BALKEMA
  • Proceedings and Monographs in Engineering, Water and Earth Sciences
  • Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems:
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • Keynote papers
  • Optimization and reliability problems in structural design of wind turbines
  • Life-cycle performance and cost analysis of bridge network considering seismic risk
  • Exchangeable condition states and Bayesian reliability updating
  • Technical contributions
  • Practical assessments of risk and its uncertainty
  • Sampling strategies to detect threshold excursions in random fields
  • Role of uncertainties in the lifetime performance of concrete structures
  • Lifetime optimization of deteriorating structures
  • Seismic reliability functions for complex systems based on a secant-stiffness reduction index
  • Redundancy and robustness of structures: A retrospective
  • Case study of a hands-on inspection for optimal maintenance planning for railway bridges
  • -Condition rating methodology on RC bridges with chloride induced deterioration
  • A new performance-based maintenance approach for infrastructures
  • Earthquake-proof reliability-based design for steel rigid-frame piers of highway bridges
  • Effect of dynamic wheel loads on fatigue performance of RC slabs
  • Effect of uncertainty in cross-sectional property on reliability-based topology optimization of frame structures
  • The applications of the third-order normal polynomial to structural reliability assessment
  • Bridge live load effects based on statistics of extremes using on-site load monitoring
  • Non-Gaussianity of structural resistance in the directional simulation in load space
  • Optimal strengthening of RC bridges with degradation in safety due to chloride induced deterioration
  • Evaluation of seismic performance of highway bridge system by Multi-State System approach
  • Optimal condition control of systems comprised of multiple homogenous components
  • -An investigation on story failure modes of frame structures
  • Elasto-plastic response of steel bridge pier base joint under seismic loading
  • Modelling the loss of steel-concrete bonds in corroded reinforced concrete beams
  • Random vibrations and peak response of a shear beam under high frequency seismic effects
  • Case studies on determination of load and resistance factors by method of moments
  • A method for computing reliability bound of series structural systems
  • Author index.