Current design criteria are intended to provide values of structural responses to a single
component of a design earthquake, at a fixed exceedance probability. It is desirable to know …

An evaluation is made of response spectrum techniques as applied to seismic analysis and
design of steel template offshore platforms. Such structures are designed as braced space …

At the present time, there is a need for a rational approach for the analysis and design of
three‐dimensional structures subjected to multi‐component earthquake motions. In this …

A method is presented by which a least favorable structural response can be estimated to
the excitation of nondeterministic nature such as earthquake acceleration. Under the …

Almost every step in the seismic design process is beset by uncertainty. This chapter deals
with one key step in this process: prediction of the re sponse of structures with known …

abstract Stationary properties of the response of simple nonlinear systems to earthquake
type (nonstationary) random disturbances are determined. The method used consists in …

A new, analytical method of seismic risk analysis is used to study the sensitivity of the peak
ground acceleration values associated with prescribed design return. periods to the …

The specifications of earthquake resistance for a structure must inevitably include some
assumptions concerning the nature of a typical expected disturbance. Current thinking tends …

Many uncertainties are associated with the selection of the design earthquake for a
particular structure. In an attempt to address such problems, a ten-story steel frame is …

SYNOPSIS A formulation of seismic structural reliability is presented that analyzes the
probability distribution of the maximum seismic response of a system with imperfectly known …