With the continual rise of sea levels and deterioration of flood defence structures over time, it
is no longer appropriate to define a design level of flood protection, but rather, it is necessary …

Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst disasters in United States history. Failures within
New Orleans' engineered hurricane protection system (levees and floodwalls) contributed to …

For the reliability analysis of engineering structures a variety of methods is known, of which
Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is widely considered to be among the most robust and most …

To reduce cost of Monte Carlo (MC) simulations for time-consuming processes, Bayesian
Monte Carlo (BMC) is introduced in this paper. The BMC method reduces number of …

To make the world a safer place while adapting high-end technologies, engineers have to
address societal concerns about the safety of emerging high-tech systems. While adapting …

In this paper we provide a computational framework for evaluation of reliability and safety
assessment of infrastructures. It is based on the combined application of the dynamic …

E. Zio & N. Pedroni Department of Energy, Polytechnic of Milan, Milan, ItalyABSTRACT: In
this paper, the recently developed Subset Simulation method is considered for improving the …

In this study, we address the effective method to apply a novel reliability method integrated
with finite element models to the safety assessment of pilot site Scheldt in the Netherlands …

In this paper, we describe the computational framework of a novel method for solving the
challenging problem of probabilistic finite elements. The method is called Improved Dynamic …

To reduce the cost of Monte Carlo (MC) simulations for time-consuming processes (like
Finite Elements), a Bayesian interpolation method is coupled with the Monte Carlo …