Nowadays, the existence of a huge number aging harbor defense structures and climate change-induced forcing variability highlight need for methodology able to deal with uncertainties which arise during design new above all upgraded structures. In present work, probabilistic based on Monte Carlo simulation technique assessment failure probability due independent modes factor change method inclus...

The modeling of joint probability distributions of correlated variables and the evaluation of reliability under incomplete probability information remain a challenge that has not been studied extensively. This article aims to investigate the effect of copulas for modeling dependence structures between variables on reliability under incomplete probability information. First, a copula-based metho...

Protection system hidden failures have been identified as one of the main causes of system cascading collapse resulting to power system instability. In this paper, a systematic approach is presented in order to identify the probability of a system cascading collapse by taking into consideration the effect of protection system hidden failure. This includes the accurate calculation of the probabi...

In this study a modified entropy-based measure is presented for evaluating the serviceability level of water distribution networks in which the hydraulic uncertainties (flow rates in pipes) as well as the uncertainties due to mechanical parameters (failure probabilities of links) are considered simultaneously. In the proposed entropy calculation method, the connectivity order of the network dem...