From the preface: This volume is a collection of papers presented at the U.S. - Japan Joint Seminar on Stochastic Approaches in Earthquake Engineering held on May 6 and 7, 1987. The general theme of the two-day program was the application of probability and statistics to engineering problems related to strong ground motion. Within this general theme a great variety of subject matters were covered, including earthquake cataloging, ground motion modeling, system identification, failure mechanisms, response and reliability analyses, numerical techniques, and active control. The engineering systems considered included buildings, bridges and life-line networks.

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From the preface: This volume is a collection of papers presented at the U.S. - Japan Joint Seminar on Stochastic Approaches in Earthquake Engineering held on May 6 and 7, 1987. The general theme of the two-day program was the application of probability and statistics to engineering problems related to strong ground motion. Within this general theme a great variety of subject matters were covered, including earthquake cataloging, ground motion modeling, system identification, failure mechanisms, response and reliability analyses, numerical techniques, and active control. The engineering systems considered included buildings, bridges and life-line networks.

Inhalt
Application of Probabilistic Approach to Aseismic Safety Analysis of Soil-Building Structure Systems.- Temporal and Magnitude Dependence in Earthquake Recurrence Models.- Response Statistics of Nonlinear Systems Subjected to Seismic Excitation.- Modal Interaction in Dynamical Systems with Closely-Spaced Natural Frequencies under Self-Excited and Random Forces.- Kalman Filtering of Versatile Restoring Systems.- Earthquake Failure Mechanism of Hysteretic Structures with Stress-Strain Based Modeling.- The Stochastic Response of Strongly Yielding Systems A New Look at an Old Problem.- Applications of Statistics and Probability to Seismic Disaster Mitigation Researches.- Stochastic Seismic Response Sensitivity of Soil-Structure Interaction System.- Active Stochastic Control of Seismic Structures.- Evolutionary Kanai-Tajimi Type Earthquake Models.- Stochastic Estimates of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems.- Importance Analyses for Upgrading Seismic Reliability of Large Scale Lifeline Networks.- Digital Simulation of Seismic Ground Motion.- Seismic Design of Secondary Systems.- Evolutionary Power Spectrum Estimation of September 19, 1985 Mexico Earthquake Accelerograms.- Application of Stochastic Differential Equations to Seismic Reliability Analysis of Hysteretic Structures.- Site Effects On the Non-Stationarity of Earthquake Excitations and Structural Responses.- Simulation of Fault Rupture Process by the Stochastic Finite Element Method.- Statistical Analysis of Earthquake Catalogs for Seismic Hazard.- On Fast Integration for Time Variant Structural Reliability.