This journal provides a forum for scholarly work dealing primarily with probabilistic and statistical approaches to contemporary solid/structural and fluid mechanicsproblems encountered in diverse technical disciplines such as aerospace, civil, marine, mechanical, and nuclear engineering. The journal aims to maintain a healthy balance between general solution techniques and problem-specific results, encouraging a fruitful exchange of ideas among disparate engineering specialities. 

From time to time, review papers will be published to provide research and development oriented readers with state-of-the-art analyses of various areas of current interest. In addition, occasional papers of tutorial nature help enhance practice oriented readers' knowledge of the basic probabilistic and statistical techniques that are essential in present-day engineering practice design. 

In consultation with the editors, distinguished members of the probabilistic mechanicscommunity may serve as guest editors for a special issue dedicated to a particular theme. 

Fields Covered: 

Aerospace engineering: 
• Damage-tolerant and durability design of aircraft 
• Load spectra characterisation 
• Random vibration of aerospace structures 

Civil engineering: 
• Geotechnical applications 
• Natural hazards such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and waves 
• Stochastic fluid mechanics/hydrology 
• Structural response/control under natural hazards 

Marine engineering: 
• Offshore structures response to wind-induced waves 
• Ship motion in a random sea 

Mechanical engineering: 
• Fatigue design 
• Mechanical systems response/control 
• Vehicle vibration 
• Vibration isolation 

Nuclear engineering: 
• Probabilistic risk assessment 
• Structural and equipment response to accidental loads 

Common to all disciplines: 
• Composite materials 
• Damage mechanics 
• Monte Carlo simulation 
• Random fields 
• Stochastic finite elements 
• Stochastic optimization 
• System reliability.

Original papers, review articles, short communications, reports of conferences and meetings, book reviews, letters to the editor, forthcoming meetings.

Editor
Professor P.D. Spanos
L.B. Ryon Chair in Engineering, Dept. of Civil & Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, MS321, Houston, TX 77251, USA Email Professor P.D. Spanos
Co-founder/Editor Emeritus
Professor M. Shinozuka
(1984-2018)
Editorial Board
S. Adhikari
Swansea University, Swansea, UK
F. Arena
Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio, IT
S. Arwade
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
I. Au
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Z.P. Bažant
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
J.L. Beck
Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
M. Beer
University of Hannover, Hannover, DE
K. Breitung
Munich, DE
C. Bucher
Vienna University of Technology, Wien, AT
G.Q. Cai
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
J. Chen
Tonghi University, Shanghai, China
R.B. Corotis
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
T. Kanti Datta
Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, IN
G. Deodatis
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
M. Di Paola
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, IT
B. R. Ellingwood
Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, USA
M.H. Faber
Danish Technical University (BYG), Brovei, DK
R.V. Field, Jr.
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
D.M. Frangopol
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA
R.G. Ghanem
USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
L. Graham-Brady
The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
M. Grigoriu
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
C. Guedes Soares
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, PT
R. Iwankiewicz
Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, DE
H. Jensen
University of Santa Maria, Valparaiso, CL
A. Kareem
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
I. Kougioumtzoglou
Columbia University, NY, USA
A.S. Kovaleva
Space Research Institute, Moscow, RU
J. Li
Tongji University, Shanghai, CN
L.D. Lutes
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
C.S. Manohar
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IN
S.F. Masri
USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
M. Mignolet
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
G. Muscolino
Università di Messina, Messina, IT
A. Næss
Norwegian University of Science & Technology NTNU, Trondheim, NO
S. Narayanan
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, IN
M. Ostoja-Starzewski
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
K.K. Phoon
National University of Singapore, Singapore
A. Pirrotta
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, IT
S. Rahman
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
G. Solari
Universita degli Studi di Genova, Genova, IT
D. Straub
TUM, Munchen, DE
B. Sudret
ETH, Zürich, CH
Q. Yue
Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan, China
W.Q. Zhu
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, CN