Advances in Structural Reliability Analysis and Maintenance Management

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue comprises selected papers with focus on the latest developments in structural reliability analysis and infrastructure maintenance. Safe, reliable, and sustainable infrastructures are vital components of the world economy. In this digital era, and with new advancements in technologies such as wireless technology, advanced computation techniques and computer modellings, the way that we look after the infrastructures can be different compared to traditional approaches.

Billions of dollars are spent in infrastructure maintenance. An optimum infrastructure maintenance can reduce costs and risks through the whole life cycle of infrastructures while keeping structural safety at a maximum confident level. To achieve an optimum infrastructure maintenance, accurate deterioration modelling and structural reliability analysis are the prerequisite.

This Special Issue is devoted to the latest developments and application of methods for the enhancement of the safety and reliability of structures and infrastructure, such as bridges, railways, energy infrastructure, power plants, pipelines, coastal, offshore and maritime systems, and manufacturing plants.

This Special Issue shall publish articles that involve an analysis of substantive problems related to the reliability and maintainability of complex infrastructure or present techniques and/or theoretical results that have a discernable relationship to the solution of such problems. An important aim is to achieve a balance between theory and practical applications.

The following topics are within the scope of the Special Issue: methods for reliability and probabilistic safety assessment; model and parameter uncertainties; aleatory and epistemic uncertainties, sensitivity analysis, data collection and analysis; engineering judgement and expert opinions; human reliability; test and maintenance policies; models for ageing and life extension; systems analysis of the impact of earthquakes, fires, tornadoes, winds, floods, etc.; codes, standards and safety criteria; operator decision support systems; software reliability; methods and applications of automatic and/or intelligent fault detection and diagnosis; dynamic reliability; design innovation for safety and reliability; safety culture; accident investigation and management; infrastructure asset maintenance; whole life cycle management and maintenance management.

The journal will contain contributed material in the form of original research papers, review articles, industrial case studies and safety recommendations. Papers selected for this Special Issue will be subject to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.

Dr. Mojtaba Mahmoodian
Dr. Le Li
Guest Editors

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