Extreme events (ie terrorist attacks, vehicle impacts, explosions, etc.) often cause local
damage to building structures and pose a serious threat when one or more vertical load …

Purpose–This paper aims to provide a review of techniques that support risk management in
product development projects using the concurrent engineering (CE) philosophy …

Abstract Industrial Product-Service Systems (IPS²) have been increasingly researched and
practiced in a variety of fields and sectors. Nevertheless, such solutions are not as …

Our knowledge to model, analyse, design, maintain, monitor, manage, predict and optimise
the life-cycle performance of structures and infrastructures under uncertainty is continually …

Flood disaster mitigation strategies should be based on a comprehensive assessment of the
flood risk combined with a thorough investigation of the uncertainties associated with the risk …

The first complete guide to using the Stochastic Finite Element Method for reliability
assessment Unlike other analytical reliability estimation techniques, the Stochastic Finite …

This book outlines how to conduct a complete environmental risk assessment. The first part
documents the psychology and philosophy of risk perception and assessment, introducing a …

Nothing lasts forever and so is the life of engineering systems. The consequence of failures
of engineering system ranges from minor inconvenience to significant economic loss and …

A progressive collapse initiates as a result of local structural damage and develops, in a
chain reaction mechanism, into a failure that is disproportionate to the initiating local …

In seeking to evaluate the efficacy of post-9/11 homeland security expenses--which have
risen by more than a trillion dollars, not including war costs--the common query has been," …