determines the (with high probability) existence of a ``giant"
3-connected core in a random 2-connected graph. Furthermore, we
provide a complete description of the typical structure of such a
random 2-connected graph, giving sharp concentration results about
the numbers and the sizes of smaller 3-connected cores.
In particular, our results apply to random 2-connected
planar graphs, where we give such a detailed description.
(This is joint work with Konstantinos Panagiotou)