With the rise of global trade, maritime transportation networks have become an
indispensable element of logistics networks. Approximately 80% of the global trade volume …

Lower-tier suppliers' sustainability noncompliance and focal company's failure at meeting
the expectations of the stakeholders to extend sustainability towards lower-tier suppliers …

In this chapter, functional integrity and structural longevity of resilient civil infrastructure are
discussed. The former deals with the overall lifetime impacts of civil infrastructure from …

Civil infrastructure during its service life is subject to progressive deterioration due to
aggressive environments and sudden deterioration due to natural and/or manmade …

Multi-criteria reverse engineering (MRE) has arisen from the cross-fertilization of advances
in mathematics and shifts in social demand. MRE, thus, marks a progressive switch (a) from …

In this paper, an integrated approach for a holistic (involving notions of resiliency and
sustainability) building design is presented to select the optimal design alternative based on …

Risk measures are tools that enable consistent measurement of financial risk and quantify
the risk exposure to an associated hazard. In finance, there is a broad spectrum of risk …

During their life cycle, engineering systems typically suffer from deterioration due to aging
and exposure to extreme events and harsh environmental conditions. As a result, regular or …

In this chapter, a framework of lifecycle analyses under uncertainty for sustainable and
resilient building design is presented. Lifecycle economic and environmental metrics are …

This paper proposes a stochastic life-cycle assessment (LCA) as a general stochastic
formulation to quantify the environmental impact of an engineering system. The assessment …