In this paper, in order to analyze seismic reliability of large-scale lifeline networks, the concept of structural function and complementary structural function are intr [...]

A numerical method is presented for the computation of artificial earthquake records consistent with any arbitrarily specified target response spectra (TRS) requirements. [...]

GDEE-based seismic response analysis and reliability evaluation of structures are outlined. The stochastic ground motion can be represented by a random Fourier function w [...]

The explicit expression of random ground motion is incorporated into the probability density evolution method to implement stochastic seismic analysis. Recently, two kind [...]

In this paper, a path-based recursive decomposition algorithm (PRDA) and a cut-based recursive decomposition algorithm (CRDA) are introduced to evaluate the network relia [...]

The uncertainties involved in the input information (e.g., the randomness in the excitations and the structural parameters) could be called the source of randomness (SOR) [...]