Fluid viscous dampers (FVDs) are well-established supplemental energy dissipation
devices that have been widely used for earthquake protection of structures. Optimal design …

This article presents a brief survey on some of the latest developments in the area of
reliability-based design optimization of structural systems under stochastic excitation. The …

The reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) of base-isolated structures by means of
the state-of-the-art methods has been confronted with the high computational cost because …

Recent advancements of performance-based wind design of tall buildings have placed
increasing importance on effectively modeling of the nonlinear structural dynamic response …

The study conducts field measurements at a tracking photovoltaic power station in Zhongwei
City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, investigating near-ground incoming wind …

The present work addresses the issue of accurate stochastic approximations in high-
dimensional parametric space using tools from uncertainty quantification (UQ). The basis …

Multifidelity uncertainty quantification (MF UQ) sampling approaches have been shown to
significantly reduce the variance of statistical estimators while preserving the bias of the …

Spectral representation method (SRM) is a widely-used tool for the simulation of fluctuating
wind speed fields. To circumvent the computational challenges of the Cholesky …

The beneficial mass-amplification effect induced by the inerter can be conveniently used in
enhanced variants of the traditional Tuned Mass Damper (TMD), namely the Tuned Mass …

Simulation of fluctuating wind-speed fields is a critical task in determining the wind loads for
wind-resistant design of high-rise buildings, long-span bridges, and large-size flexible …