Productive third - party involvement
designed to alter the confrontational foreign policy narrative as well as a
structural environment that allows enough leverage for domestic
decision makers (elected civilian leadership in Pakistan's case) to implement and enforce new policies are also imperative for change to happen.
His main research interests are in the development and application of probabilistic concepts and methods to civil and marine engineering, including:
structural reliability; life - cycle cost analysis; probability - based assessment,
design, and multi-criteria life - cycle optimization of structures and infrastructure systems;
structural health monitoring; life - cycle performance maintenance and management of structures and distributed infrastructure under extreme events (earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and floods); risk - based assessment and
decision making; multi-hazard risk mitigation; infrastructure sustainability and resilience to disasters; climate change adaptation; and probabilistic mechanics.
It would be deceiving to present these estimates as having the same reliability that's needed to make
structural decisions about
designing a floodplain, bridge, or dam.