Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems - 9789058095794

CRC Press

This volume is an outcome of the 11th IFIP WG7.5 working conference on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems in Canada. The conference focuses on structural reliability methods and applications and engineering risk analysis and decision-making.\n > 1. Reliability-based optimal design: Problem formulations, algorithms and application (keynote lecture) 2. Strategic principles for managing risk (keynote lecture) 3. Loads and extreme events models for highway bridges 4. Seismic performance-based design and an application to a pile foundation 5. Life-cycle cost analysis of bridge structures considering seismic risk 6. Choice of an optimal intensity measure for the characterization of the damaging power of the ground motion 7. Maintenance planning optimization of a reinforced concrete bridge element using genetic algorithms and dynamic programming 8. LCC-based optimum seismic design of RC structures of JR 9. State of the art versus state of the practice in bridge evaluation)