Probabilistic Structural Mechanics: Advances in Structural Reliability Methods

Deriving Probability Models for Stress Analysis.- Fatigue Life Prediction of Structures.- Stochastic Boundary Element Methods: Computational Methodology and Applications.- Hysteretic Systems Subjected to Delta Correlated Input.- A New Second-Order Approximate Reliability Method Based on Hyper-Parabolic Failure Surfaces.- Fatigue Lifetime Prediction for Uncertain Systems.- Probabilistic Assessment of Composite and Smart Composite Structures.- Forecasting of Supply Interruption Rate with Widespread Damage to the Water Supply Network.- Reliability of Silo Ring Under Lognormal Stochastic Pressure Using Stochastic Interpolation.- Improved Bounds on First-Passage Times for Scalar Gaussian Processes.- Reliability Assessment via Log-Likelihood Maximization.- Reliability Analysis of Nonlinear 3-D Frames with PR Connections by SFEM.- Structural Reliability Optimization.- Response Functions and System Reliability of Bridges.- A Survey of Probabilistic Service Life Prediction Methods for Structures.- Prediction Control of Structures by ARMA Modeling.- Reliability Analysis Methods for Linear Uncertain Dynamic Systems.- Improved Formula for Upper Bound of Probability of Failure Based on Means and Variances.- Stochastic Simulation of Initiation and Early Growth of Small Cracks in Creep-Fatigue.- Study of Three Reliability Methods for Fatigue Crack Growth.- Reliability-Based Tail Estimation.- Some Developments in Directional Simulation for Time Variant Structural Systems.- Empirical Limit State Modelling in Reliability Analysis.- Fatigue Specific Linearization Methods.- Stochastic Materials Design of Fibrous Composite Laminates.- Manufacturing Requirements from a Probabilistic Design Analysis Approach to Optimizing for Robust Design.- Advances in Reliability Estimation of MDOF-Systems.- Grain Boundary Failure and Geometrical Models of Creep Damage.- Reliability of Unidirectional Composites Using Genetic Algorithms.- Random Vibration of Structures Under Non-Gaussian Excitation.- Design Sensitivity Random Eigenvalue Problem in Dynamics and Buckling of Structures.- A Probabilistic Model for the Accumulation of Fatigue Damage in Composite Laminates.- Analysis of Structural Control Robustness: Reliability Methods.- Probabilistic Structural Analyses of Ceramic Gas Turbine Components.- Robust Structural System Design Using A System Reliability-Based Design Optimization Method.- Adaptive Importance Sampling (AIS)-Based System Reliability Sensitivity Analysis Method.- Time Dependent System Reliability Under Cumulative Damage.- Reliability Against Fracture with Uncertain Crack Geometry.- Dynamic Snap-Through and Snap-Buckling of Shear-Deformable Panels in a Random Environment.