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

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 homogeneous 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