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C. ALLIN CORNELL
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... , laid the foundation for his lifelong interest in using stochastic models to represent environmental loads on structures and determine structural responses to those loads. His book is still a standard reference for students and researchers, and its title reflects Allin's 45 Final Tribute Vol 13.indd 45 3/23/10 3:42:07 PM
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... His seminal paper, "Engineering Seismic Risk Analysis," published in 1968 in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society, is often cited as a foundational document for the field of probabilistic seismic hazard analysis. In this paper, Allin argued that optimal engineering decisions on seismic design or retrofitting had to Final Tribute Vol 13.indd 46 3/23/10 3:42:07 PM
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... The terms "aleatory uncertainty" and "epistemic uncertainty" are good examples of the importance Allin placed on using precise terms in a precise way. Many of us initially objected to the use of these terms on the grounds that they were more cumbersome than the commonly used "randomness" and "uncertainty." Allin's rejoinder was, "Those common terms have been used so imprecisely and interchangeably in the past that they are useless.
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... Allin is survived by his wife, Elisabeth Paté-Cornell, Professor and Chair of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford, with similar research interests, and their two children, Phillip and Ariane Cornell; and three children from an earlier marriage, Eric Cornell, Robert Cornell, and Joan Fazzio. He is also survived by two sisters, Joan Scheel of Santa Rosa, California, and Bonnie Bassinger of Edna, Minnesota.
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