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Author Straub, Daniel

Title Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems
Published Hoboken : CRC Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (259 pages)
Contents Front Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Bayesian network modeling of system performance; Reliability analysis of a pressurized water reactor vessel using sparse polynomial chaos expansions; The maximum of a stationary non-differentiable Gaussian process; Introducing results from non-destructive testing into time variant safety analysis; Damage identification by Lévy ant colony optimization; A hierarchical surrogate-based strategy for reliability-based design optimization; Structural reliability assessment using Kriging metamodel and Monte Carlo simulation: AK-MCS method
Life-cycle framework for maintenance, monitoring, and reliability of naval ship structuresOptimal maintenance planning considering deterioration uncertainty; Bridge health monitoring using output-only vibration measurements excited by a single moving vehicle; Risk analysis of fatigue-induced sequential failures by Branch-and-Bound method employing system reliability bounds; Probabilistic damage assessment by means of Bayesian FE model updating; Optimal structural control under stochastic uncertainty
Identification of the parameters of complex constitutive models: Least squares minimization vs. Bayesian updatingRisk-based operation and maintenance planning for offshore wind turbines; A scalable parametric approximation to multi-normal probability integrals; Stochastic life-cycle cost analysis of structures in a finite time planning horizon; Geotechnical reliability updating using stochastic FEM; Optimal design of tall buildings subjected to wind action in the framework of performance based design
Framework for probabilistic calibration of fatigue design factors for offshore wind turbine support structuresMultiobjective non-linear random vibration analysis for performance-based earthquake engineering; Fuzzy reliability of concrete bridge elements with respect to the reinforcement chloride corrosion; Dynamic response optimization of tall buildings subject to extreme wind loads; Reliability updating with measurements in spatially distributed systems using stochastic simulation; Structural optimization based on reliability index mapping functions; Fatigue life of wind turbine blades
Load level and target column over-design factors of frames under a specific reliability levelHow to improve the dissemination of structural reliability methods in engineering practice? Summary of the second panel discussion at the 15th IFIP WG7.5 working conference; Back Cover
Summary 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 For
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Subject Structural design -- Mathematical models -- Congresses
Mathematical optimization -- Congresses
Reliability (Engineering) -- Congresses
Mathematical optimization
Reliability (Engineering)
Structural design -- Mathematical models
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136898563
1136898565