Life-cycle management of deteriorating bridge networks with network-level risk bounds and system reliability analysis

DY Yang, DM Frangopol - Structural Safety, 2020 - Elsevier
Structural deterioration poses a substantial threat to the safety, serviceability, and
functionality of bridges. Since bridges are connected in transportation networks, their failure …

[PDF][PDF] Reliability index for non-normal distributions of limit state functions

SH Ghasemi, AS Nowak - Structural Engineering and Mechanics, 2017 - researchgate.net
Reliability analysis is a probabilistic approach to determine a safety level of a system.
Reliability is defined as a probability of a system (or a structure, in structural engineering) to …

Reliability-based analysis and life-cycle management of load tests

DM Frangopol, DY Yang, EOL Lantsoght… - Load Testing of …, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter reviews concepts related to the uncertainties associated with structures and
how the results of load tests can be used to reduce these uncertainties. When an existing …