Table of Contents:
  • Deriving Probability Models for Stress Analysis / S. Ahn, S. Chick and M. B. Mendel
  • Fatigue Life Prediction of Structures / V. V. Bolotin
  • Stochastic Boundary Element Methods: Computational Methodology and Applications / T. Burczynski
  • Hysteretic Systems Subjected to Delta Correlated Input / S. Caddemi and M. Di Paola
  • A New Second-Order Approximate Reliability Method Based on Hyper-Parabolic Failure Surfaces / G. Q. Cai and L. Elishakoff
  • Fatigue Lifetime Prediction for Uncertain Systems / F. Casciati and P. Colombi
  • Probabilistic Assessment of Composite and Smart Composite Structures / C. C. Chamis and M. C. Shiao
  • Forecasting of Supply Interruption Rate with Widespread Damage to the Water Supply Network / T. Chiba and Y. Shimizu
  • Reliability of Silo Ring Under Lognormal Stochastic Pressure Using Stochastic Interpolation / O. Ditlevsen, C. Christensen and S. Randrup-Thomsen
  • Dynamic Snap-Through and Snap-Buckling of Shear-Deformable Panels in a Random Environment / F. Ziegler, R. Heuer and H. Irschik
  • Improved Bounds on First-Passage Times for Scalar Gaussian Processes / S. Engelund, R. Rackwitz and C. Lange
  • Reliability Assessment via Log-Likelihood Maximization / L. Faravelli
  • Reliability Analysis of Nonlinear 3-D Frames with PR Connections by SFEM / L. Gao and A. Haldar
  • Structural Reliability Optimization / P. Geyskens
  • Response Functions and System Reliability of Bridges / M. Ghosn, F. Moses and N. Khedekar
  • A Survey of Probabilistic Service Life Prediction Methods for Structures / R. A. Heller and S. Thangjitham
  • Prediction Control of Structures by ARMA Modeling / M. Hoshiya and Y. Saito
  • Reliability Analysis Methods for Linear Uncertain Dynamic Systems / Y. Ibrahim and L. H. Tong
  • Improved Formula for Upper Bound of Probability of Failure Based on Means and Variances / M. Ichikawa
  • Stochastic Simulation of Initiation and Early Growth of Small Cracks in Creep-Fatigue / T. Kitamura, N. Tada and R. Ohtani
  • Random Vibration of Structures Under Non-Gaussian Excitation / P. Sniady and R. Sieniawska
  • Design Sensitivity Random Eigenvalue Problem in Dynamics and Buckling of Structures / P. Sniady and S. Zukowski
  • A Probabilistic Model for the Accumulation of Fatigue Damage in Composite Laminates / P. D. Spanos and J. D. Rowalt
  • Analysis of Structural Control Robustness: Reliability Methods / B. F. Spencer, Jr., M. K. Sain, C.-H. Won and L. M. Barroso
  • Probabilistic Structural Analyses of Ceramic Gas Turbine Components / T. Teramae, S. Hamada and J. Hamanaka
  • Robust Structural System Design Using A System Reliability-Based Design Optimization Method / T. Y. Torng and R. J. Yang
  • Adaptive Importance Sampling (AIS)-Based System Reliability Sensitivity Analysis Method / Y.-T. Wu
  • Time Dependent System Reliability Under Cumulative Damage / Q. Xiao and S. Mahadevan
  • Reliability Against Fracture with Uncertain Crack Geometry / Y. Zhang and A. Der Kiureghian
  • Study of Three Reliability Methods for Fatigue Crack Growth / W. K. Liu, Y. J. Lua, Y. Chen and T. Belytschko
  • Reliability-Based Tail Estimation / M. A. Maes and K. Breitung
  • Some Developments in Directional Simulation for Time Variant Structural Systems / R. E. Melchers
  • Empirical Limit State Modelling in Reliability Analysis / G. Mohr
  • Fatigue Specific Linearization Methods / A. Naess and S. R. Winterstein
  • Stochastic Materials Design of Fibrous Composite Laminates / H. Nakayasu
  • Manufacturing Requirements from a Probabilistic Design Analysis Approach to Optimizing for Robust Design / G. E. Orient, K. R. Rajagopal, D. L. O'Connor and J. F. Newell
  • Advances in Reliability Estimation of MDOF-Systems / H. J. Pradlwarter, G. I. Schueller and P. G. Melnik-Melnikov
  • Grain Boundary Failure and Geometrical Models of Creep Damage / H. Riesch-Oppermann and A. Bruckner-Foit
  • Reliability of Unidirectional Composites Using Genetic Algorithms / D. G. Robinson and G. Toussaint