Reliability-Based Design and Performance Assessment of Engineered Structures
A special issue of CivilEng (ISSN 2673-4109).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2021) | Viewed by 429
Special Issue Editor
Interests: structural reliability; community resilience; natural hazards modelling; reliability and resilience-based design
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Dear Colleagues,
The failure of important engineering structures and infrastructure facilities may lead to substantial economic losses to the facility owner or occupant and further a ripple effect in the surrounding community. Structural reliability analysis is an essential tool to evaluate and manage structural safety and serviceability level, aimed at providing quantitative information on whether a structure can withstand extreme events with an acceptable level of confidence during its future service life. The design specifications in currently enforced standards and codes, which are for the most part reliability-based, also demonstrate the up-to-date applications of reliability theory in structural design and safety evaluation. The various sources of uncertainties arising from structural performance and the external loads, as well as the computational models, are at the root of the structural safety problem of the structures.
This Special Issue of the Journal of CivilEng aims to provide a platform for key researchers in the field of civil and reliability engineering to present their latest research outputs. Contributions addressing the design and performance assessment of engineered structures are welcome. The papers collected in this Special Issue are expected either to develop novel design criteria for new structures or to apply reliability theory in structural performance assessment.
Dr. Cao Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Structural reliability
- Reliability-based design
- Uncertainty quantification
- Engineered structures
- Service-life assessment
- Design criterion
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