Seismic reliability analysis of structures

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics dedicates selected issues of the Journal, normally no more than one issue a year, to a special topic. The Special Issue publication is attractive to authors as well as readers. To researchers and practicing professionals it provides a forum to present their work in a publication of related papers on one subject. To readers it provides a comprehensive view of a timely subject in one venue. Each Special Issue normally consists of (a) original papers (submitted in response to a Call for Papers) and (b) an invited State-of-the-Art or review paper, as deemed appropriate for the topic. The Editorial Board encourages the submission of manuscripts that address the following areas: basic research papers that advance fundamental knowledge of the subject; applied research papers that extend and re-interpret existing results, and then present these results in a form suitable for use in engineering practice; and papers that report on applications of research to solve practical problems. A Guest Editor, appointed for each Special Issue, reviews the contributed papers, with the advice and assistance of other reviewers. Coupling seismicity, ground motions, nonlinear dynamic demands and capacities. PSHA for use in seismic reliability analysis (SRA). Characterization of ground motions for SRA. Role of stochastic ground motion models in SRA. Dynamic local and global demand hazard analysis. Probabilistic local and global dynamic capacity assessment. Seismic fragility curves. Effective computational methods for nonlinear, dynamic, many-variable SRA. Epistemic uncertainty in properties, models, etc. and its implications. Practical seismic reliability-based structural design guidelines. Use of SRA to improve existing guidelines and codes. Real-world applications from the offshore, nuclear, and other industries. Role of approximate methods such as nonlinear static procedures. SRA of existing buildings. Post-earthquake safety assessment of structures (uncertain damage, aftershock hazard, etc.) Performance and safety criteria. Risk management. Contributed papers for this Special Issue should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/eqe Author's guidelines can be found on the journal's homepage http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/eqe The deadline for submission of manuscripts is 31 July 2006. Papers received after the deadline will be considered if space and time permits.