1. Foreword

   EditorialNotes Pages: iii - iii

2. Analysis of nonlinear oscillators under stochastic excitation by the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation

   • A. Baratta
   • G. Zuccaro

   OriginalPaper Pages: 255 - 271

3. Log-likelihood maximization and response surface in reliability assessment

   • K. Breitung
   • L. Faravelli

   OriginalPaper Pages: 273 - 285

4. Response statistics of van der Pol oscillators excited by white noise

   • A. Naess
   • B. K. Hegstad

   OriginalPaper Pages: 287 - 297

5. Analysis of nonlinear sliding structures by modified stochastic linearization methods

   • Ruichong Zhang
   • Isaac Elishakoff
   • Masanobu Shinozuka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 299 - 312

6. Random dynamics of structures with gaps: Simulation and spectral linearization

   • P. Bernard
   • M. Taazount

   OriginalPaper Pages: 313 - 335

7. Non-linear oscillators under parametric and external poisson pulses

   • Mario Di Paola
   • Giovanni Falsone

   OriginalPaper Pages: 337 - 352

8. Random perturbations of bifurcation diagrams

   • Fritz Colonius
   • Wolfgang Kliemann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 353 - 373

9. Nonlinear evolution of probability vectors of interest in discrete kinetic theory

   • E. Gabetta
   • L. Pareschi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 375 - 391

10. Stochastic differential equations for the kinetic and hydrodynamic equations

    • Mirosław Lachowicz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 393 - 399