3. Probabilistic methods are applied widely in system identification techniques.

There are many good textbooks available on random processes, random vibrations and probabilistic methods. Three books
are sampled here because of the practical application examples they contained and their theoretical breath and depth.

Stochastic Processes and Random Vibrations: Theory and Practice
by Júlíus Sólnes
444 pages
John Wiley & Sons, 1997
ISBN: 0471971928

Introduction to Random Vibrations, Spectral and Wavelet Analysis (3rd Edition)
by D. E. Newland
480 pages
Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 1996
ISBN: 0582215846

Random Fields: Analysis and Synthesis
By Eric VanMarcke
382 pages
The MIT Press, 1983
Web edition, Rare Book Services, Princeton NJ, 1998

3.2. Journals –

ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Probabilistic Eingeering Mechanics
In particular, some relevant special issues are –
Volume 16, Number 4: Monte Carlo Simulation
Volume 15, Number 1: Lyngby Workshop on Stochastic Mechanics and Structural Reliability
Volume 14, Numbers 1-2: Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability
Volume 12, Number 4: ISSAR Science State-of-the-Art-Report on Computational Stochastic Mechanics
Volume 10, Number 3: Stochastic Structural Dynamics
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
Stochastic Processes and their Applications
(An Official Journal of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability)

 3.3. Organizations and Research Laboratories –

ASCE Probabilistic Methods Committee
LANL Structural Health Monitoring
Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Smart Structures Technology Laboratory, UIUC
Earthquake Engineering-Strong Motion Group, USC
The John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, Stanford University

3.4. People –

Some researchers who are working on the front of applying probabilistic methods to engineering mechanics,
structural dynamics, system identification and earthquake engineering are listed as follows:

Siu-Kui Au
James L. Beck
Lawrence A. Bergman
Lori Graham-Brady
Joel P. Conte
Allin Cornell
George Deodatis
Roger Ghanem
Mircea D. Grigoriu
Eric Johnson
Ahsan Kareem
Anne S. Kiremidjian
Sami Masri
Masanobu Shinozuka
Andrew Smyth
Pol D. Spanos
Bill F. Spencer, Jr.
Erik VanMarcke
Y.K. Wen
Kelvin Ka-Veng Yuen
Aspasia Zerva