Abstract
Recent increases in computational resources and speed have opened the door to the possibility of integrating informational databases into the design process of civil structures. The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, efficient time/frequency domain procedures for the estimation of local and global load effects are presented with focus on the use of proper orthogonal decomposition of the spectral and covariance matrices. Secondly, a procedure is presented that fully automates the design procedure through the rigorous discrete member size optimization of the structural system subject to multiple performance constraints on both the local and global load effects.
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