Stochastic Approaches in Earthquake Engineering

Application of Probabilistic Approach to Aseismic Safety Analysis of Soil-Building Structure Systems.- Temporal and Magnitude Dependence in Earthquake Recurrence Models.- Response Statistics of Nonlinear Systems Subjected to Seismic Excitation.- Modal Interaction in Dynamical Systems with Closely-Spaced Natural Frequencies under Self-Excited and Random Forces.- Kalman Filtering of Versatile Restoring Systems.- Earthquake Failure Mechanism of Hysteretic Structures with Stress-Strain Based Modeling.- The Stochastic Response of Strongly Yielding Systems - A New Look at an Old Problem.- Applications of Statistics and Probability to Seismic Disaster Mitigation Researches.- Stochastic Seismic Response Sensitivity of Soil-Structure Interaction System.- Active Stochastic Control of Seismic Structures.- Evolutionary Kanai-Tajimi Type Earthquake Models.- Stochastic Estimates of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems.- Importance Analyses for Upgrading Seismic Reliability of Large Scale Lifeline Networks.- Digital Simulation of Seismic Ground Motion.- Seismic Design of Secondary Systems.- Evolutionary Power Spectrum Estimation of September 19, 1985 Mexico Earthquake Accelerograms.- Application of Stochastic Differential Equations to Seismic Reliability Analysis of Hysteretic Structures.- Site Effects On the Non-Stationarity of Earthquake Excitations and Structural Responses.- Simulation of Fault Rupture Process by the Stochastic Finite Element Method.- Statistical Analysis of Earthquake Catalogs for Seismic Hazard.- On Fast Integration for Time Variant Structural Reliability.