Reliability and optimization of structural systems : assessment, design, and life-cycle performance : proceedings of the Thirteenth IFIP WG 7.5 Working Conference on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems, Kobe, Japan, Japan, October 11-14, 20

Focussing on structural reliability methods, reliability-based optimization, structural system reliability and risk analysis, lifetime performance and various applications in civil engineering. Invaluable to all concerned with structural system reliability and optimization, especially students, engineers, and workers in research and development. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Table of contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Keynote papers......Page 12 Optimization and reliability problems in structural design of wind turbines......Page 14 Life-cycle performance and cost analysis of bridge network considering seismic risk......Page 26 Exchangeable condition states and Bayesian reliability updating......Page 38 Technical contributions......Page 54 Practical assessments of risk and its uncertainty......Page 56 Sampling strategies to detect threshold excursions in random fields......Page 64 Role of uncertainties in the lifetime performance of concrete structures......Page 74 Lifetime optimization of deteriorating structures......Page 84 Seismic reliability functions for complex systems based on a secant-stiffness reduction index......Page 94 Redundancy and robustness of structures: A retrospective......Page 102 Case study of a hands-on inspection for optimal maintenance planning for railway bridges......Page 112 Condition rating methodology on RC bridges with chloride induced deterioration......Page 124 A new performance-based maintenance approach for infrastructures......Page 134 Earthquake-proof reliability-based design for steel rigid-frame piers of highway bridges......Page 144 Effect of dynamic wheel loads on fatigue performance of RC slabs......Page 154 Effect of uncertainty in cross-sectional property on reliability-based topology optimization of frame structures......Page 164 The applications of the third-order normal polynomial to structural reliability assessment......Page 174 Bridge live load effects based on statistics of extremes using on-site load monitoring......Page 184 Non-Gaussianity of structural resistance in the directional simulation in load space......Page 192 Optimal strengthening of RC bridges with degradation in safety due to chloride induced deterioration......Page 202 Evaluation of seismic performance of highway bridge system Multi-State System approach......Page 212 Optimal condition control of systems comprised of multiple homogenous components......Page 222 Elasto-plastic response of steel bridge pier base joint under seismic loading......Page 238 Modelling the loss of steel-concrete bonds in corroded reinforced concrete beams......Page 244 Random vibrations and peak response of a shear beam under high frequency seismic effects......Page 252 Case studies on determination of load and resistance factors by method of moments......Page 260 A method for computing reliability bound of series structural systems......Page 270 Author index......Page 280