Computational Methods in Stochastic Dynamics

• Preface.- Model Reduction and Uncertainties in Structural Dynamics, by G.I. Schuëller (in Cooperation with B. Goller and H.J. Pradlwarter).- Resonant Damping of Flexible Structures under Random Excitation, by Steen Krenk and Jan Høgsberg.- Importance sampling of nonlinear structures using adapted process, by Siu-Kui Au.- Use of time-variant spectral characteristics of non-stationary random processes in the first-passage problem for earthquake engineering applications, by Michele Barbato.- Stochastic seismic analysis of large linear structural systems under fully non-stationary spectrum compatible ground motion, by Pierfrancesco Cacciola and Giuseppe Muscolino.- Soil spatial variability and structural reliability of buried networks subjected to earthquakes, by S.M. Elachachi, D. Breysse and H. Benzeguir.- An Efficient First-Order Scheme for Reliability Based Optimization of Stochastic Systems, by H.A. Jensen, G.I. Schuëller, M.A. Valdebenito and D.S. Kusanovic.- Application of a Mode-based Meta-model for the Reliability Assessment of Structures Subjected to Stochastic Ground Acceleration, by L. Pichler, H.J. Pradlwarter and G.I. Schuëller.- Nonlinear Dynamic Response Variability and Reliability of Frames with Stochastic Non-Gaussian Parameters, by George Stefanou and Michalis Fragiadakis.- The role of uncertainties in Aeolian risk assessment, by F. Petrini, M. Ciampoli and G. Augusti.- The Method of Separation: A Novel Approach for Accurate Estimation of Evolutionary Power Spectra, by Dominik Schillinger and Vissarion Papadopoulos.- A Seismologically Consistent Husid Envelope Function for the Stochastic Simulation of Earthquake Ground-Motions, by Sara Sgobba, Peter J. Stafford and Giuseppe C. Marano.- Sparse Representations in Stochastic Mechanics, by Hermann G. Matthies and Elmar Zander.- Auto-parametric Stability Loss and Post-critical Behavior of a Three Degrees of Freedom System, by Jiři Náprstek and Cyril Fischer.- Probability based size effectrepresentation for failure in civil engineering structures built of heterogeneous materials, by Adnan Ibrahimbegovic, Jean-Baptiste Colliat, Martin Hautefeuille, Delphine Brancherie and Sergiy Melnyk.- The scatter of eigenfrequencies in beams made of metal foam, by Daniel Schwarzer and Carsten Proppe.

From the book reviews: "The book is addressed to researchers, post-graduate level, and PhD students who are familar with the fundamentals of computational stochastic structural dynamics. The book does a good job of covering the topic of earthquake engineering application of the computational methods. ... The book gives lot of useful theoretical, computational, and practical information, and-I think - because of the wide spectrum of the content of the book, everybody can find something according to their special interest." (Bela Buna, International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration, Vol. 19 (3), 2014)