This volume contains 28 papers by renowned international experts on the latest advances in structural reliability methods and applications, engineering risk analysis and decision making, new optimization techniques and various applications in civil engineering. Moreover, several contributions focus on the assessment and optimization of existing structural systems.
All contributions were presented at the 15th Working Conference of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 7.5 on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems, held at the Oskar von Miller Forum in Munich, Germany, April 2010. Working Group 7.5’s purposes are to promote modern structural system reliability and optimization theory and its applications, to stimulate research, development and application of structural system reliability and optimization theory, to assist and advance research and development in these fields, to further the dissemination and exchange of information on reliability and optimization of structural systems, and to encourage education in structural system reliability and optimization theory.
This volume is intended for structural and mechanical engineers working and researching in structural optimization and risk/reliability analysis, applied to structural and infrastructural systems.
Preface
Bayesian network modeling of system performance
M.T. Bensi, A. Der Kiureghian & D. Straub
Reliability analysis of a pressurized water reactor vessel using sparse polynomial chaos expansions
G. Blatman & B. Sudret
The maximum of a stationary non-differentiable Gaussian process
K. Breitung
Introducing results from non-destructive testing into time variant safety analysis
C. Bucher
Damage identification by Lévy ant colony optimization
G. Cottone, A. Pirrotta, G. Fileccia Scimemi & E. Riva Sanseverino
Expected life-cycle costs of bolted connections for steel buildings subjected to seismic loading
D. De León
A hierarchical surrogate-based strategy for reliability-based design optimization
V. Dubourg, J.-M. Bourinet & B. Sudret
Structural reliability assessment using Kriging metamodel and Monte Carlo simulation: AK-MCS method
B. Echard, N. Gayton & M. Lemaire
Life-cycle framework for maintenance, monitoring, and reliability of naval ship structures
D.M. Frangopol & N.M. Okasha
Optimal maintenance planning considering deterioration uncertainty
H. Hattori, H. Furuta, K. Nakatsu, N. Tokioka & K. Ishibashi
Bridge health monitoring using output-only vibration measurements excited by a single moving vehicle
C.W. Kim & M. Kawatani
Risk analysis of fatigue-induced sequential failures by Branch-and-Bound method employing system reliability bounds
Y.-J. Lee & J. Song
Probabilistic damage assessment by means of Bayesian FE model updating
G. Lombaert, B. Moaveni & J.P. Conte
Optimal structural control under stochastic uncertainty
K. Marti & I. Stein
Identification of the parameters of complex constitutive models: Least squares minimization vs. Bayesian updating
T. Most
Risk-based operation and maintenance planning for offshore wind turbines
J.J. Nielsen & J.D. Sørensen
A scalable parametric approximation to multi-normal probability integrals
K. Nishijima, J. Qin & M.H. Faber
Stochastic life-cycle cost analysis of structures in a finite time planning horizon
M.D. Pandey & T. Cheng
Geotechnical reliability updating using stochastic FEM
I. Papaioannou & D. Straub
Optimal design of tall buildings subjected to wind action in the framework of performance based design
F. Petrini, M. Ciampoli & G. Augusti
Framework for probabilistic calibration of fatigue design factors for offshore wind turbine support structures
J.G. Rangel-Ramírez & J.D. Sørensen
Multiobjective non-linear random vibration analysis for performance-based earthquake engineering
S. Sessa
Fuzzy reliability of concrete bridge elements with respect to the reinforcement chloride corrosion
R. Sieniawska, P. Sniady & S. Zukowski
Dynamic response optimization of tall buildings subject to extreme wind loads
S.M.J. Spence & M. Gioffrè
Reliability updating with measurements in spatially distributed systems using stochastic simulation
D. Straub
Structural optimization based on reliability index mapping functions
W.H. Tang & J. Zhang
Fatigue life of wind turbine blades
P. Thoft-Christensen, R.R. Pedersen & S.R.K. Nielsen
Load level and target column over-design factors of frames under a specific reliability level
Y.-G. Zhao & M. Sharfuddin
Summary of the discussion session
Author index
