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• Apostolakis, G. E.
  The Effect of a Certain Class of Potential Common Mode Failures on the Reliability of Redundant Systems.
  National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Office of Energy R and D Policy., November 1975, 42 p.
  Identifying Number(s): UCLA-ENG-7528
  Keywords: Reliability; Failure; Risk; Nuclear reactor accidents; Birth and death processes; Common mode failures; Nuclear reactor safety; Nuclear power plants; Redundancy; Statistical analysis; Mathematical models

• Hsieh, T.; Okrent, D.; Apostolakis, G. E.
  On the Average Probability Distribution of Peak Ground Acceleration in the U.S. Continent Due to Strong Earthquakes.
  National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. Research Applied to National Needs., March 1975, 45 p.
  Identifying Number(s): UCLA-ENG-7516
  Keywords: Ground motion; Earthquake engineering; Risk analysis; Earthquakes; Probability theory; Site surveys; Eastern United States; Nuclear power plants; Earth movements; Probability distribution functions; United States; Seismic risk