Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems '88

Time-Variant Reliability Analysis Utilizing Response Surface Approach.- Iterative Elastic and Plastic Optimal Design of Steel Frames by a Mixed Method Including Double Secant Method for Nonlinear Mathematical Programming.- Reliability Approach to the Design, Construction and Use of Natural Draught Cooling Towers.- Perception of Risks and Reactions to Accidents.- A New Monte Carlo Technique in Structural Reliability with a Plastic Frame Example.- On Spatial Correlation of Nodal Wave Forces in System Reliability Analysis of Offshore Structures.- Collapse Probability for Elasto-Plastic Beam Structures.- Stochastic Wave Loads for Reliability Analyses of Jacket Structures.- Excursion Probabilities of Non-Homogeneous Gaussian Scalar Fields Based on Maxima Considerations.- Optimization of Structural Systems under Reserve and Residual Reliability Requirements.- Structural Reliability Analysis of Floating Offshore Structure.- Double Secant Method for Nonlinear Mathematical Programming.- Improving the Acceptability of Reliability-Based Safety Factors for the Design of Structural Systems.- Reliability Concept Applied to Optimum Configuration of Fibrous Composites.- On a Reliability-Based Shape Optimization of Truss Structures.- Prediction of Extreme Values of Linear Combination of Load Effects.- Parametric Decomposition for System Reliability Evaluation.- Integration of Multinormal Densities on Surfaces.- Optimum Design of Damage Tolerant Marine Structures.- Development of Techniques to Investigate the Ultimate Limit State of Framed Structures.- Probabilistic Fatigue of Offshore Structures.- Bayesian Prediction of Design Wave Heights.- Inspection Strategies for Concrete Bridges.- The Virtual Distortion Method Applied to the Reliability Analysis of Offshore Structures.- A Probabilistic Wave Model for Reliability Analysis.- Second Order Reliability by an Exact Integral.- Structural Reliability Assessment by Minimal Representations in a Mechanism Approach.- A Random Field Model for the Estimation of Earthquake Hazard due to Active Faults.- Reliability Analysis of Stochastic Rigid-Ideal Plastic Wall by Finite Elements.- Long-Term System Reliability of Offshore Jacket Structures.- Index of authors.