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Safety Factors and Reliability: Friends or Foes? (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
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Safety Factors and Reliability: Friends or Foes? (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
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Have you ever wondered where the safety factors come from? Why is
it that deterministic analysis has reached a very sophisticated
level, but in the end empirical factors are still needed? Is there
a way to select them, rather than assigning them arbitrarily as is
often done? This book clearly shows that safety factors are closely
related with the reliability of structures, giving yet another
demonstration of Albert Einstein's maxim that "It is
incomprehensible that Nature is comprehensible." The book shows
that the safety factors are much more comprehensible if they are
seen in a probabilistic context. Several definitions of the safety
factors are given, analytical results on insightful numbers are
presented, nonprobabilistic safety factors are shown, as well as
their estimates derived by the inequalities of Bienayme, Markov,
Chebushev and Camp-Meidell. A special chapter is devoted to
important contributions by Japanese experts. This volume will help
to critically re-think the issue of safety factors, which can
create a false feeling of security. The deterministic paradigm can
be enhanced by incorporating probabilistic concepts wisely where
they are needed without treating all variables as probabilistic
ones. The book shows that there is a need of their integration
rather than separation. This book is intended for engineers,
graduate students, lecturers and researchers.
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