Advanced Structural Safety Studies: With Extreme Conditions and Accidents (Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 37)

"This book describes principles, industry practices and evolutionary methodologies for advanced safety studies, which are helpful in effectively managing volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments within the framework of quantitative risk assessment and management and associated with the safety and resilience of structures and infrastructures with tolerance against various types of extreme conditions and accidents such as fires, explosions, collisions and grounding. It presents advanced computational models for characterizing structural actions and their effects in extreme and accidental conditions, which are highly nonlinear and non-Gaussian in association with multiple physical processes, multiple scales, and multiple criteria. Probabilistic scenario selection practices and applications are presented. Engineering practices for structural crashworthiness analysis in extreme conditions and accidents are described. Multidisciplinary approaches involving advanced computational models and large-scale physical model testing are emphasized. The book will be useful to students at a post-graduate level as well as researchers and practicing engineers." Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvi Principles of Structural Safety Studies (Jeom Kee Paik)....Pages 1-17 Probabilistic Selection of Event Scenarios (Jeom Kee Paik)....Pages 19-44 Limit State-Based Safety Studies (Jeom Kee Paik)....Pages 45-56 Risk-Based Safety Studies (Jeom Kee Paik)....Pages 57-76 Safety Assessment of Damaged Structures (Jeom Kee Paik)....Pages 77-97 Computational Models for Ship Structural Load Analysis in Ocean Waves (Jeom Kee Paik)....Pages 99-144 Computational Models for Offshore Structural Load Analysis in Collisions (Jeom Kee Paik)....Pages 145-187 Computational Models for Gas Cloud Temperature Analysis in Fires (Jeom Kee Paik)....Pages 189-216 Computational Models for Blast Pressure Load Analysis in Explosions (Jeom Kee Paik)....Pages 217-250 Computational Models for Nonlinear Structural Response Analysis in Extreme Loads (Jeom Kee Paik)....Pages 251-277 Computational Models for Structural Crashworthiness Analysis in Collisions and Grounding (Jeom Kee Paik)....Pages 279-311 Computational Models for Structural Crashworthiness Analysis in Fires (Jeom Kee Paik)....Pages 313-383 Computational Models for Structural Crashworthiness Analysis in Explosions (Jeom Kee Paik)....Pages 385-416 Quantitative Collision Risk Assessment and Management (Jeom Kee Paik)....Pages 417-474 Quantitative Grounding Risk Assessment and Management (Jeom Kee Paik)....Pages 475-506 Quantitative Fire Risk Assessment and Management (Jeom Kee Paik)....Pages 507-544 Quantitative Explosion Risk Assessment and Management (Jeom Kee Paik)....Pages 545-608 Facilities for Physical Model Testing (Jeom Kee Paik)....Pages 609-646 Back Matter ....Pages 647-664