Abstract Design optimization of structural and multidisciplinary systems under uncertainty
has been an active area of research due to its evident advantages over deterministic design …

Copulas are used to specify dependence between two or more random variables. The last
few years have seen a surge of developments of parametric models for copulas. Here, we …

A novel copula-based probabilistic model is proposed to establish the temperature
difference analysis model for a long-span suspension bridge's steel box girder. The key idea …

Woven fiber composites have been increasingly employed as light-weight materials in
aerospace, construction, and transportation industries due to their superior properties …

Proper treatment of structural behavior under severe loading-such as the performance of a
high-rise building during an earthquake-relies heavily on the use of probability-based …

This paper presents an adaptive-sparse polynomial chaos expansion (adaptive-sparse
PCE) method for performing engineering reliability analysis and design. The proposed …

A tradeoff between cost and safety is essential in the reliability-based design of offshore
support structures operating in uncertain harsh environments. This study proposes a …

Operating high-speed trains imposes excessive vibrations to bridges raising concerns about
their safety. In this context, it was shown that some conventional design methods such as …

This paper discusses the implementation of an artificial neural network (ANN) for predicting
the critical flutter velocity of suspension bridges with closed box deck sections. Deck chord …

This paper presents a sampling-based RBDO method using surrogate models. The Dynamic
Kriging (D-Kriging) method is used for surrogate models, and a stochastic sensitivity …