Reliability of Structures enables both students and practising
engineers to appreciate how to value and handle reliability as an
important dimension of structural design. It discusses the concepts
of limit states and limit state functions, and presents
methodologies for calculating reliability indices and calibrating
partial safety factors. It also supplies information on the
probability distributions and parameters used to characterize both
applied loads and member resistances.
This revised and extended second edition contains more
discussions of US and international codes and the issues underlying
their development. There is significant revision and expansion of
the discussion on Monte Carlo simulation, along with more
examples.
The book serves as a textbook for a one-semester course for
advanced undergraduates or graduate students, or as a reference and
guide to consulting structural engineers. Its emphasis is on the
practical applications of structural reliability theory rather than
the theory itself. Consequently, probability theory is treated as a
tool, and enough is given to show the novice reader how to
calculate reliability. Some background in structural engineering
and structural mechanics is assumed.
A companion website provides a solutions manual for problems in
the book.
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