Selected Archival Publications
Publications by Topic:
Environmental Contours
Haver, Sverre and Winterstein, Steven R., "Environmental Contour Lines: A Method for Estimating Long Term Extremes by a Short Term Analysis," Transactions, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Vol. 116, 2009, pp. 116-127 (PDF file)
Winterstein, Steven R., Jha, Alok K., and Kumar, Satyendra, ``Reliability of Floating Structures: Extreme Response and Load Factor Design," Journal of Waterway, Port and Coastal Engineering, ASCE, July/August, 1999 (PDF file)
Winterstein, Steven R., and Engebretsen, Knute, ``Reliability-Based Prediction of Design Loads and Responses for Floating Ocean Structures," Proceedings, 17th International Conference, OMAE, Lisbon, 1998 (PDF file)
Winterstein, Steven R., Ude, T.C., Cornell, C.A., Bjerager, P., and Haver, S, "Environmental Parameters for Extreme Response: Inverse FORM with Omission Factors," Proceedings, ICOSSAR-93, Innsbruck, Austria, 1993 (PDF file)
Floating Offshore Structures and Ships
Sweetman, Bert and Winterstein, Steven R., "Non-Gaussian Airgap Response Models for Floating Structures," Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 129, No. 3, March 2003, pp. 302-309 (PDF file)
Sweetman, Bert, Winterstein, Steven R., and Meling, Trond Stokka, "Airgap Prediction from Second-Order Diffraction and Stokes Theory," International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 3, Sept. 2002 (PDF file)
Sweetman, Bert, Winterstein, Steven R., and Cornell C. Allin, "Air Gap Analysis of Floating Structures: First- and Second-Order Transfer Functions from System Identification," Elsevier Journal of Applied Ocean Research, Vol. 24, No. 2, April 2002 (PDF file)
Winterstein, Steven R., Ude, Todd C., and Kleiven, Gudmund, "Springing and Slow Drift Responses: Predicted Extremes and Fatigue vs Simulation," Proceedings, BOSS Conference, July, 1994. (PDF file)
Ness, Odd B., McHenry, George, Mathisen, Jan, and Winterstein, Steven R., "Nonlinear Analysis of Ship Rolling in Random Beam Seas," Proceedings, STAR Symposium on 21st-Century Ship and Offshore Vessel Design, Production, and Operation, April 12-15, 1989. (PDF file)
Nonlinear and Moment-Based Load Models
Winterstein, Steven R. and MacKenzie, Cameron A., "Extremes of Nonlinear Vibration: Models Based on Moments, L-Moments, and Maximum Entropy," Proceedings, OMAE 2011, Paper OMAE2011-49867 (PDF file)
Kashef, Tina and Winterstein, Steven R., "Moment-Based Load and Response Models with Wind Engineering Applications," ASME Wind Energy Symposium, 37th ASME/AIAA Annual Meeting, 1999. Also appeared in Journal of Solar Engineering, ASME, Vol. 122, August 2000, pp. 122--128. (PDF file)
Jha, Alok K. and Winterstein, Steven R., "Stochastic Fatigue Damage Accumulation Due to Nonlinear Ship Loads," Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Eng, Vol. 122, No. 4, 2000 (PDF file)
Winterstein, Steven R., "Nonlinear Vibration Models for Extremes and Fatigue," Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 114, No. 10, October 1988 (PDF file)
Winterstein, Steven R., "Moment-Based Hermite Models of Random Vibration," Afdelingen for Baerende Konstruktioner, Danmarks Tekniske Holjskole, Lyngby, OSBN 87-87336-78-2, 1987 (PDF file)
Ocean Wave and Current Modelling
Winterstein, Steven R., Haver, Sverre, and Nygaard, Einar, "Turkstra Models of Current Profiles," Proceedings, OMAE 2009, Paper OMAE2009-79691 (PDF file)
Winterstein, Steven R., Kleiven, Gudmund, and Hagen, Oistein, "Comparing Extreme Wave Estimates from Hourly and Annual Data," Proceedings, ISOPE 2001, Stavanger, Norway, June 17-22, 2001 (PDF file)
Jha, Alok K. and Winterstein, Steven R., "Nonlinear Random Ocean Waves: Prediction and Comparison with Data," Proceedings, OMAE2000, Paper OMAE2000-6125 (PDF file)
Winterstein, Steven R. and Jha, Alok K., "Random Models of Second-Order Waves and Local Wave Statistics," Proceedings, 10th ASCE Eng. Mech. Specialty Conference, Boulder, Vol II, 1995, pp. 1171-1174 (PDF file)
Winterstein, Steven R., "Random Process Simulation with the Fast Hartley Transform," Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 137, No. 3, 1990, pp. 527-531 (PDF file)
Wind Energy
Fitzwater, LeRoy M. and Winterstein, Steven R., "Predicting Design Wind Turbine Loads from Limited Data: Comparing Random Process and Random Peak Models," Proceedings, 20th ASME Wind Energy Symposium, 2001 AIAA Aerospace Science Meeting, Paper No. AIAA-2001-0046. (PDF file)
Manuel, Lance, Veers, Paul S. and Winterstein, Steven R., "Parametric Models for Estimating Wind Turbine Fatigue Loads for Design," Proceedings, 20th ASME Wind Energy Symposium, 2001 AIAA Aerospace Science Meeting, Paper No. AIAA-2001-0047. (PDF file)
Kashef, Tina and Winterstein, Steven R., "Relating Turbulence to Wind Turbine Blade Loads: Parametric Study with Multiple Regression Analysis," ASME Wind Energy Symposium, 36th ASME/AIAA Annual Meeting, 1998. Also appeared in Journal of Solar Engineering, ASME, Vol. 121, August 1999, pp. 156--161. (PDF file)
Veers, Paul S. and Winterstein, Steven R., "Application of Measured Loads to Wind Turbine Fatigue and Reliability Estimation," Journal of Solar Engineering, ASME, Vol. 120, August 1998, pp. 233--239. (PDF file)
Earthquake Engineering
Cornell, C. Allin and Steven R. Winterstein, "Temporal and Magnitude Dependence in Earthquake Recurrence Models," Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 78, No. 4, pp. 1522--1537, August 1988. (PDF file)
Hanks, Thomas C. and Cornell, C. Allin, "Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis: A Beginner's Guide." (PDF file)
Thrainsson, Hjortur, Winterstein, Steven R., and Kiremidjian, Anne S., "Markov DFT Models of Non-Stationary Ground Motion," Proceedings, 8th Annual ASCE Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability, 2000 (Paper No. PMC2000-341). (PDF file)
Thrainsson, Hjortor, "Modeling of Earthquake Ground Motion in the Frequency Domain," Ph.D. Thesis, Report 134, Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, Stanford University, 2000 (PDF file)