Extreme value statistics of combined load effect processes

The design of structures subjected to environmental loads, e.g. offshore platforms, ships, aircrafts, tall buildings, would usually include analysis of combinations of load effects, for example, the combination of stress components in structural joints. There are various yield criteria describing boundaries of structural element failure. This paper focuses on the development of efficient and accurate methods for estimating extreme response statistics of combined load effect processes. This latter issue is crucial for reliability design.