About the author  ⁄ Fabio Biondini, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE

Fabio Biondini is with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He may be reached at fabio.biondini@polimi.it.

An International Workshop Organized by ASCE

Structural engineering is undergoing a profound change towards a life-cycle-oriented design philosophy to fulfill the continuously increasing demand from societal, political, economic and environmental needs. In this approach, the classical point-in-time design criteria are extended to account for more comprehensive time-variant performance indicators over the entire service life.

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