Contains complete proceedings of SEWC '98 held in San Francisco, July 19-23, 1998.

An unexpected brittle failure of connections and of members occurred during the last earthquakes of Northridge and Kobe. For this reason a heightened awareness

Our knowledge to model, design, analyse, maintain, manage and predict the life-cycle performance of infrastructure systems is continually growing. However, the

Focussing on structural reliability methods, reliability-based optimization, structural system reliability and risk analysis, lifetime performance and various a

This book is devoted to the discussion and studies of simple and efficient numerical procedures for large deflection and elasto-plastic analysis of steel frames