This book describes principles, industry practices and evolutionary
methodologies for advanced safety studies, which are helpful in
effectively managing volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA)
environments within the framework of quantitative risk assessment and
management and associated with the safety and resilience of structures
and infrastructures with tolerance against various types of extreme
conditions and accidents such as fires, explosions, collisions and
grounding. It presents advanced computational models for characterizing
structural actions and their effects in extreme and accidental
conditions, which are highly nonlinear and non-Gaussian in association
with multiple physical processes, multiple scales, and multiple
criteria. Probabilistic scenario selection practices and applications
are presented. Engineering practices for structural crashworthiness
analysis in extreme conditions and accidents are described.
Multidisciplinary approaches involving advanced computational models and
large-scale physical model testing are emphasized. The book will be
useful to students at a post-graduate level as well as researchers and
practicing engineers.