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Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering pp 3642–3661Cite as

Structural Seismic Reliability Analysis

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First-order reliability method; Monte Carlo sampling; Probability of failure; Reliability analysis; Uncertainty

Introduction

Perhaps, no other discipline within engineering has to deal with as much uncertainty as the field of earthquake engineering (Der Kiureghian 1996). To begin with, the occurrence of earthquakes in time and space is completely random in nature, and this leads to a large amount of uncertainty while predicting the intensities of ground motions resulting from earthquakes. Further, it is challenging to precisely assess the load-carrying capacity of the structural system of interest, due to the inherent variability across different structural members that constitute the overall structural system. It is necessary to analyze all of these different sources of uncertainty and assess the safety of the structure by accounting for such sources of uncertainty. Structural safety assessment is important both during the design of the structural system and for analyzing...

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  1. Intelligent Systems Division, SGT Inc., NASA Ames Research Center, Bldg T35-B, Room 104, 94035, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Shankar Sankararaman

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  1. Institute for Computer Science in Civil Engineering, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Michael Beer

  2. Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou

  3. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Sustainability, Liverpool, UK

    Edoardo Patelli

  4. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Dynamics, Liverpool, UK

    Siu-Kui Au

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Sankararaman, S. (2015). Structural Seismic Reliability Analysis. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_280

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