Rainfall is one of the most significant triggering factors for slope failures in many regions
around the world. Numerous research studies have been conducted to investigate infiltration …

Existing reliability studies of road networks are mainly limited to connectivity and travel time
reliability and may not be sufficient for a comprehensive network performance measure …

A capacity related reliability for transportation networks with random link capacity is
introduced. It is defined as the probability that the road network can accommodate a certain …

A new spreadsheet-cell-object-oriented algorithm for the first-order reliability method is
proposed and illustrated for cases with correlated nonnormals and explicit and implicit …

A practical method using spreadsheets is proposed for calculating the Hasofer-Lind second
moment reliability index β. Two example problems involving correlated normals and …

The uncertainties that are encountered in prediction of offshore foundation performance are
reviewed. An outline of the first-order, second-moment method is given. This method is used …

Background—The cause of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is unknown by
definition, but its familial subtype is considered to have a genetic component. We …

A practical procedure is presented for reliability analysis involving correlated nonnormals.
Equivalent normal transformation is performed as in the first order reliability method; the …

Importance The use of sacubitril/valsartan is not endorsed by practice guidelines for use in
patients with New York Heart Association class IV heart failure with a reduced ejection …

Although first-order reliability method is a common procedure for estimating failure
probability, the formulas derived for bimodal bounds of system failure probability have not …