Prediction of Accidental Actions Likely to Occur on Building Structures

This book deals with problems of structural design for accidental actions. It has been written primarily to provide information on predicting accidental actions and assessing damage from them by means of a stochastic simulation. Both prediction and damage assessment are based on methods of the quantitative risk assessment.

The book has been written with the needs of two types of readers in mind: graduate students and Doctorate candidates studying structural engineering as well as researchers and engineers taking interest in assessing safety of structures and insuring against accidents.