Abstract:
The main themes of the conference were structural and system reliability methods, probabilistic models, engineering risk analysis and decision making, stochastic systems, reliability-based optimal design, and applications in various civil engineering domains, including infrastructure systems, wind turbines, bridges, natural hazards, and seismic analysis.
Description:
These are the proceedings of the sixteenth working conference of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 7.5 on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems, which took place at the American University of Armenia, Yerevan, on June 24-27, 2012. This volume contains 32 papers presented at the conference. Articles by Dr. Armen Der Kiureghian and Dr. Victor Ohanyan from American University of Armenia are also included in this volume.