Probability Applications

Acknowledgments
Special thanks to the Los Alamos National Laboratory Enhanced Surveillance Program for
their support of the research work in Chapters 1,3,4,6, 11, and 14. The Los Alamos National
Laboratory is operated by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy
under contract W-7405-ENG-36.
Also, special thanks to the Los Alamos National Laboratory Educational Research
Opportunity Program for their support of the research work in Chapters 1, 2, 8, 12, and 14.
We thank the National Aeronautics and Space Administration University Research
Center Office for their partial support of the research in Chapters 1, 5, 7, 9, and 13 under
NASA grants NAG2-1480 and NAG2-1196.
The research of Chapter 10 was supported in part by NASA under cooperative agreement
NCC5-209; the NSF under grants DUE-9750858 and CDA-9522207; the United Space
Alliance under grant NAS 9-20000 (PWO COC67713A6); the Future Aerospace Science
and Technology Program (FAST) Center for Structural Integrity of Aerospace Systems; the
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Material Command, USAF, under grant
F49620-95-1 -0518; and the National Security Agency under grant MDA904-98-1 -0561. We
gratefully acknowledge this support.
Finally, the research of Chapter 9 is an extension of a previous effort appearing in
F. S. Wong, T. J. Ross, and A. C. Boissonnade, "Fuzzy sets and survivability analysis of
protective structures," in The Analysis of Fuzzy Information, Vol. 3, James Bezdek, ed.,
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1987, pp. 29—53. The authors are grateful to the investigators
(including the senior author) who brought this seminal idea in structural engineering to light.
It is our hope that this extension provides renewed effort in this area in the future.
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