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Corotis, Ross

Professor Emerita/Emeritus

Positions

Dean Emerita/Emeritus, College of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor Emerita/Emeritus, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering

Research Areas

Research

keywords

mathematical foundations of structural reliability theory, general issues of natural hazards in the built environment, societal trade-offs based on risk perception, issues of built environment sustainability and resilience

Publications

selected publications

book
chapter
- Climate Change and Its Impacts 2018
- Uncertainty Theories, Overview 2015
- A Vision for Coastal Risk Reduction. 133-150. 2014
- Institutional Landscape for Coastal Risk Management. 39-68. 2014
- Performance of Coastal Risk Reduction Strategies. 69-110. 2014
- Principles for Guiding the Nation's Future Investments in Coastal Risk Reduction. 111-132. 2014
- Reducing Coastal Risk on the East and Gulf Coasts Introduction. 11-37. 2014
- Reducing Coastal Risk on the East and Gulf Coasts Preface. XI-+. 2014
- Reducing Coastal Risk on the East and Gulf Coasts Summary. 1-10. 2014
conference proceeding
- Belief and Basic Evidence Theory for Combining Expert Seismic Risk Assessments 2018
- Communicating Community Infrastructure Risks 2017
- Multiple Hazards and Social Vulnerability for the Denver Region. 386-405. 2017
- The Engineer as Political Decision Maker and Political Leader 2017
- Uncertainty Quantification of Seismic Structural Systems: The Role of Generalized Information Theory 2017
- Planning for Community Resilience under Climate Uncertainty 2016
- Resilience: Communities Are More Than a Portfolio of Buildings. 1619-1628. 2015
- Political pitfalls in hazards planning. 2238-2245. 2011
- Rebuilding L'Aquila following the 2009 earthquake: Priorities and perspectives. 2222-2230. 2011
- The role of uncertainty in the political process for risk investment decisions. 2753-2760. 2011
- A systems approach to assessing the sustainability of the Grand Canal of China. 1269-1276. 2010
- Sustainable infrastructure development for Guizhou province in southwest China: A life cycle assessment approach. 57-58. 2007
- Political management issues and societal risk trade-off for the built environment. 537-542. 2004
- Risk and uncertainty. 781-786. 2003
- Socially relevant structural safety. 15-24. 2003
- Risk-setting policy strategies for hazards. 1-8. 2003
- Simplified stochastic modeling and simulation of unidirectional fiber reinforced composites. 99-105. 2002
- Extreme value theory and mixed distributions - Applications. 27-33. 1999
- Extreme wind estimation: Theoretical considerations. 1351-1358. 1997
- Reliability-based structural system optimization: State-of-the-art versus state-of-the-practice. 67-78. 1996
- Optimal rehabilitation of locally damaged structures using the pseudo distortion method. 606-612. 1996
- A partially observable Markov decision process model for bridge inspection and maintenance. 1523-1528. 1995
- Synthesis of session 7c: Optimisation techniques and codes: Knowledge based design. 1457-1458. 1995
- RELIABILITY-BASED LIFE-CYCLE COSTING IN STRUCTURAL DESIGN. 685-692. 1993
- STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY-ANALYSIS OF NONLINEAR-SYSTEMS. 1345-1352. 1993
journal article
- Combined evidence model to enhance pavement condition prediction from highly uncertain sensor data. Reliability Engineering and System Safety. 2022
- STEM Retention: A Retrospective of Three Civil Engineers. Journal of STEM Education (Online): innovations and research. 58-62. 2020
- Social Indicators to Inform Community Evacuation Modeling and Planning. ASCE - ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering. 2020
- Combinatorial analysis for probabilistic assessment of dependent failures in systems and portfolios. Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics. 2020
- Predicting Postdisaster Residential Housing Reconstruction Based on Market Resources. Natural Hazards Review. 2020
- Dempster-Shafer Theory applications in post-seismic structural damage and social vulnerability assessment. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. 201-213. 2020
- Representing Uncertainty in Civil Engineering with Dempster Shafer (Evidence) Theory. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. 2019
- Representing uncertainty in natural hazard risk assessment with Dempster Shafer (Evidence) theory. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. 137-151. 2019
- Confined Masonry Shear Walls: Experimental Testing and Analysis. Masonry Society Journal. 1-18. 2017
- Multihazard Mapping of the United States. ASCE - ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering. 2017
- First-Order Reliability Approach to Quantify and Improve Building Portfolio Resilience. Journal of Structural Engineering. 2016
- An Overview of Uncertainty Concepts Related to Mechanical and Civil Engineering. ASCE - ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B. Mechanical Engineering. 2015
- Application of Fuzzy Pattern Recognition of Seismic Damage to Concrete Structures. ASCE - ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering. 2015
- Optimising portfolio loss reduction using a first-order reliability method sensitivity analysis. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering: maintenance, management, life-cycle design and performance. 1190-1198. 2015
- Framework Methodology for Risk-Based Decision Making for Transportation Agencies. ASCE - ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering. 2015
- Building portfolio seismic loss assessment using the First-Order Reliability Method. Structural Safety. 113-120. 2015
- Strategies of investment in the management of urban bridges: a life-cycle approach illustrated for Paris. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering: maintenance, management, life-cycle design and performance. 1080-1093. 2013
- Perceptions of Decision-Making Roles and Priorities That Affect Rebuilding after Disaster: The Example of L'Aquila, Italy. Earthquake Spectra. 843-868. 2013
- An overview approach to seismic awareness for a "quiescent" region. Natural Hazards. 335-363. 2013
- Seismic Risk and Society Development Indicators: Examination of Three Countries. Natural Hazards Review. 122-133. 2013
- A retrospective approach to assessing the sustainability of the Grand Canal of China. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering: maintenance, management, life-cycle design and performance. 297-316. 2013
- Including User Cost and Risk Analysis During Construction in Highway Bridge Structure Selection. Journal of Transportation Safety and Security. 211-224. 2012
- The variability of deformation demand with ground motion intensity. Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics. 59-65. 2012
- Multi-attribute aspects for risk assessment of natural hazards. International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management. 437-437. 2010
- Politics, perception and related social issues of life-cycle cost management for civil infrastructure systems. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering: maintenance, management, life-cycle design and performance. 1-1. 2009
- Risk communication with generalized uncertainty and linguistics. Structural Safety. 113-117. 2009
- Societal issues in adopting life-cycle concepts within the political system. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering: maintenance, management, life-cycle design and performance. 59-65. 2009
- Extreme value index and tail probability estimates for mixed distributions. Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics. 385-392. 2008
- In memoriam - C. Allin Cornell. Structural Safety. 181-182. 2008
- Highway user travel time evaluation. Journal of Transportation Engineering. 663-669. 2007
- Alternative valuation of highway user delay costs. Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems: decision making and problem solving. 87-97. 2007
- Gender dimensions of building code disparities in natural disasters: A United States perspective. Australian Journal of Civil Engineering. 15-26. 2007
- Modeling of risk-based inspection, maintenance and life-cycle cost with partially observable Markov decision processes. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering: maintenance, management, life-cycle design and performance. 75-84. 2005
- An educational experiment to address infrastructure needs. International Journal of Critical Infrastructures. 269-280. 2005
- Reliable Design Loads for Natural Phenomena: Illustration with Wind Speeds. Natural Hazards Review. 40-47. 2004
- Simplified stochastic modeling and simulation of unidirectional fiber reinforced composites. Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics. 33-40. 2004
- Design wind speed prediction. Journal of Structural Engineering. 1268-1274. 2003
- Special issue on the Eighth International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR '01) - Guest editorial. Structural Safety. 87-87. 2002
- Optimal Life-Cycle Costing with Partial Observability. Journal of Infrastructure Systems. 56-66. 2000
- Geometric nonlinear analysis of frame structures by pseudodistortions. Journal of Structural Engineering. 1318-1327. 1999
- Nonlinear analysis of frame structures by pseudodistortions. Journal of Structural Engineering. 1309-1317. 1999
- Reanalysis of rigid frame structures by the virtual distortion method. Structural Optimization -Berlin-. 71-79. 1996
- DOMINANT FAILURE MODES FOR STRUCTURES WITH STOCHASTIC LOAD PROCESSES. Journal of Engineering Mechanics. 1252-1260. 1995
- Inspection, Maintenance, and Repair with Partial Observability. Journal of Infrastructure Systems. 92-99. 1995
- RELIABILITY-BASED STRUCTURAL DESIGN WITH MARKOV DECISION-PROCESSES. Journal of Structural Engineering. 971-980. 1995
- DIRECT INTEGRATION METHOD FOR STOCHASTIC FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF NONLINEAR DYNAMIC-RESPONSE. Structural Engineering and Mechanics. 273-287. 1995
- LIMIT STATES OF LOAD-PATH-DEPENDENT STRUCTURES IN BASIC VARIABLE SPACE. Journal of Engineering Mechanics. 299-308. 1995
- RELIABILITY-BASED BRIDGE DESIGN AND LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT WITH MARKOV DECISION-PROCESSES. Structural Safety. 111-132. 1994
- SPECIAL ISSUE ON RELIABILITY-BASED STRUCTURAL SYSTEM ASSESSMENT, DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION. Structural Safety. 1-1. 1994
- RELIABILITY-ANALYSIS OF RIGID-PLASTIC STRUCTURES BY THE STATIC APPROACH. Structural Safety. 209-235. 1994
- UNTITLED. Structural Safety. 1-1. 1994
- RISK MANAGEMENT. Structural Safety. 143-143. 1994
- OPTIMIZATION OF STRUCTURAL FRAMES WITH ELASTIC AND PLASTIC CONSTRAINTS. Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems: decision making and problem solving. 147-169. 1993
- ASSESSING COST OF DAM FAILURE. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. 64-82. 1993
- STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION MODELS FOR STRUCTURAL-RELIABILITY ANALYSIS. Journal of Structural Engineering. 223-239. 1993
- COLLAPSE MECHANISM IDENTIFICATION USING A SYSTEM-BASED OBJECTIVE. Structural Safety. 157-171. 1992
- STRUCTURAL SYSTEM RELIABILITY CONSIDERATIONS WITH FRAME INSTABILITY. Engineering Structures. 371-378. 1992
- RELIABILITY OF PORTAL FRAMES WITH INTERACTING STRESS RESULTANTS - DISCUSSION. Journal of Structural Engineering. 1976-1977. 1992
- GENERATION OF CRITICAL STOCHASTIC EARTHQUAKES. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. 275-288. 1992
- WIND-INDUCED RESPONSE OF STRUCTURALLY ASYMMETRIC HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS. Journal of Structural Engineering. 207-222. 1992
- STOCHASTIC PROGRAMS FOR IDENTIFYING CRITICAL STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE MECHANISMS. Applied Mathematical Modelling: simulation and computation for engineering and environmental systems. 367-373. 1991
- CRITICAL BASE EXCITATIONS OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS. Journal of Engineering Mechanics. 1403-1422. 1991
- LOAD COMBINATIONS FOR BUILDINGS EXPOSED TO FIRES. Engineering Journal. 37-44. 1991
- DYNAMIC-RESPONSE OF TALL BUILDINGS TO STOCHASTIC WIND LOAD. Journal of Structural Engineering. 2982-3002. 1990
- LIMIT STATE SENSITIVITY OF STRUCTURAL FRAMES SUBJECTED TO CYCLIC FORCES. Journal of Structural Engineering. 2824-2841. 1990
- TRANSFER-FUNCTION MODELS FOR DETERMINING DYNAMIC WIND LOADS ON BUILDINGS. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. 449-458. 1990
- TRANSFER-FUNCTION MODELING OF DYNAMIC WIND LOADS ON BUILDINGS. Journal of Engineering Mechanics. 1473-1488. 1990
- APPLICATION OF MATHEMATICAL-PROGRAMMING TO SYSTEM RELIABILITY. Structural Safety. 149-154. 1990
- STRUCTURAL SYSTEM RELIABILITY USING LINEAR-PROGRAMMING AND SIMULATION. Journal of Structural Engineering. 2435-2447. 1989
- Future of Civil Engineering Profession and Role of Education. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering - ASCE. 117-124. 1989
- FAILURE COST DESIGN OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS. Structural Safety. 239-252. 1988
- MULTIPARAMETRIC LIMIT ANALYSIS OF FRAMES .1. MODEL. Journal of Engineering Mechanics. 377-386. 1988
- MULTIPARAMETRIC LIMIT ANALYSIS OF FRAMES .2. COMPUTATIONS. Journal of Engineering Mechanics. 387-403. 1988
- Near‐Optimality Analysis for Linear Models. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. 91-95. 1988
- RELIABILITY-BASED CODE FORMULATIONS FOR REINFORCED-CONCRETE BUILDINGS. Journal of Structural Engineering. 2235-2252. 1987
- Reliability of Random Structural Systems and Load Space Reduction. Journal of Structural Engineering. 2145-2159. 1987
- FAILURE MODE-IDENTIFICATION FOR STRUCTURAL FRAMES. Journal of Structural Engineering. 1415-1432. 1987
- WOOD DAMAGE ACCUMULATION BY STOCHASTIC LOAD MODELS. Journal of Structural Engineering. 2402-2415. 1986
- NONLINEAR RESPONSE TO SUSTAINED LOAD PROCESSES. Journal of Structural Engineering. 142-157. 1985
- RELIABILITY OF DUCTILE SYSTEMS WITH RANDOM STRENGTHS. Journal of Structural Engineering. 1306-1325. 1985
- STOCHASTIC-ANALYSIS OF WIND STREAM AND TURBINE POWER. Solar Energy. 297-309. 1985
- CONDITIONED GAUSSIAN PROBABILITY DENSITY. Journal of Engineering Mechanics. 115-119. 1984
- RELIABILITY OF NONLINEAR FRAMED STRUCTURES - CLOSURE. Journal of Structural Engineering. 1922-1923. 1984
- ESTIMATES OF DESIGN WIND FROM SHORT RECORDS - DISCUSSION. Journal of Structural Engineering. 1324-1326. 1983
- GENERALIZED WIND-SPEED PROBABILITY-DISTRIBUTION. Journal of Engineering Mechanics. 14-29. 1983
- INELASTIC TANGENTIAL STIFFNESS FOR 2-D FRAMES. Journal of Structural Engineering. 2685-2697. 1983
- MEAN OF AUTO-CORRELATED AIR-QUALITY MEASUREMENTS - CLOSURE. Journal of Environmental Engineering. 531-533. 1983
- OBSERVATIONS ON STRUCTURAL SYSTEM RELIABILITY AND THE ROLE OF MODAL CORRELATIONS. Structural Safety. 189-198. 1983
- PROBABILISTIC LOAD DURATION MODEL FOR LIVE LOADS. Journal of Structural Engineering. 859-874. 1983
- RELIABILITY OF NON-LINEAR FRAMED STRUCTURES. Journal of Structural Engineering. 1585-1601. 1983
- BAYESIAN PERSISTENCE ANALYSIS FOR WIND ENERGY. Journal of the Energy Division - ASCE. 116-127. 1982
- BAYESIAN-ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL WIND ENERGY POTENTIAL. Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Division. 1198-1214. 1982
- DELPHI METHODS - THEORY AND DESIGN LOAD APPLICATION - CLOSURE. Journal of the Structural Division. 2631-2632. 1982
- ESTIMATING THE MAXIMUM VALUE OF AUTO-CORRELATED AIR-QUALITY MEASUREMENTS. Atmospheric Environment. 2603-2608. 1982
- MEAN OF AUTO-CORRELATED AIR-QUALITY MEASUREMENTS. American Society of Civil Engineers, Journal of the Environmental Engineering Division. 488-501. 1982
- A COMPARATIVE SEISMIC HAZARD STUDY FOR AZERBAIJAN PROVINCE IN IRAN. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 335-362. 1981
- AREA-DEPENDENT PROCESSES FOR STRUCTURAL LIVE LOADS. Journal of the Structural Division. 857-872. 1981
- DELPHI METHODS - THEORY AND DESIGN LOAD APPLICATION. Journal of the Structural Division. 1095-1105. 1981
- SIMULATION OF HOURLY WIND-SPEED AND ARRAY WIND POWER. Solar Energy. 199-212. 1981
- CONFIDENCE-INTERVAL PROCEDURES FOR WIND TURBINE CANDIDATE SITES. Solar Energy. 427-433. 1980
- PROBABILITY MODEL FOR DESIGN LIVE LOADS. Journal of the Structural Division. 2017-2033. 1980
- STOCHASTIC NATURE OF BUILDING LIVE LOADS - CLOSURE. Journal of the Structural Division. 1658-1659. 1980
- TECHNIQUES FOR SPATIAL EXTRAPOLATION OF WIND DATA - DISCUSSION. Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Division. 1453-1456. 1980
- RUN DURATION ANALYSIS OF SURFACE WIND SPEEDS FOR WIND ENERGY APPLICATION. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 156-166. 1979
- STOCHASTIC NATURE OF BUILDING LIVE LOADS. Journal of the Structural Division. 493-510. 1979
- SUM OF INDEPENDENT GAMMA LIVE LOADS MODEL. Journal of the Structural Division. 1701-1705. 1979
- HOSPITAL INVENTORY LOAD SURVEY. Journal of the Structural Division. 1859-1868. 1978
- PROBABILITY MODELS OF WIND VELOCITY MAGNITUDE AND PERSISTENCE. Solar Energy. 483-493. 1978
- MODULUS OF SOIL REACTION VALUES FOR BURIED FLEXIBLE PIPE. Journal of the Geotechnical Engineering Division, ASCE. 1034-1036. 1977
- OSCILLATOR RESPONSE TO MODULATED RANDOM-EXCITATION. Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Division. 501-513. 1977
- PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS OF PREDICTED AND MEASURED SETTLEMENTS. Canadian Geotechnical Journal. 17-33. 1977
- PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS OF PREDICTED AND MEASURED SETTLEMENTS - REPLY. Canadian Geotechnical Journal. 276-277. 1977
- PROBABILITY MODELS FOR LIVE-LOAD SURVEY RESULTS. Journal of the Structural Division. 1257-1274. 1977
- STOCHASTIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THUNDERSTORM MODELING. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 1479-1480. 1977
- VARIANCE ANALYSIS OF WIND CHARACTERISTICS FOR ENERGY-CONVERSION. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 1149-1157. 1977
- STOCHASTIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THUNDERSTORM MODELING. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 865-879. 1976
- INVERSE METHOD FOR DETERMINING APPROXIMATE STRESS-STRAIN BEHAVIOR OF SOILS. Journal of Testing and Evaluation. 51-61. 1975
- RESPONSE OF STRUCTURES TO RANDOM WIND FORCES. Journal of the Structural Division. 2557-2571. 1975
- TIME-DEPENDENT SPECTRAL CONTENT OF SYSTEM RESPONSE. Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Division. 623-636. 1975

Teaching

courses taught

CVEN 3227 - Probability, Statistics and Decision
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2020
Introduces uncertainty based analysis concepts and applications in the planning and design of civil engineering systems emphasizing probabilistic, statistics, and design concepts and methods.
CVEN 3525 - Structural Analysis
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2019
Studies structural analysis of statically determinate and indeterminate systems, deflections, energy methods, and force and stiffness methods.
CVEN 5565 - Life-Cycle Engineering of Civil Infrastructure Systems
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2020
Philosophical and analytical issues for lifetime design and operation of civil systems. Optimization tradeoffs of construction, management, and sustainability. Utility of operation and service, including present-value economic analysis. Decision-making alternatives of safety and performance, including hazards consideration. Undergraduates may enroll with the permission of the instructor. Recommended prerequisite: CVEN 3227 or equivalent.

Background

education and training

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1971
M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1968
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1967

awards and honors

Structural Engineering Institute/SEI Fellows, conferred by American Society of Civil Engineers, 2021
OPAL Leadership Award, conferred by American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019
Engineering Mechanics Division/EMI Fellow, conferred by American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013
Teaching Award, conferred by Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, 2012
Distinguished Members, conferred by American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011
Clarence L. Eckel Faculty Prize for Excellence, conferred by Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, 2010
Jefferson Science Fellows at the U.S. Dept. of State, conferred by National Academies, The, 2007
BFA Award for Excellence in Teaching and Pedagogy, conferred by Boulder Faculty Assembly, 2006
Service Award, conferred by Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, 2006
Distinguished Achievement Award, conferred by Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, 2003
Membership, conferred by National Academy of Engineering, 2002
Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award, conferred by College of Engineering and Applied Science, 2000
Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, conferred by American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984

International Activities

geographic focus

China Country

Other Profiles

ORCID iD

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9112-8856