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Applied Methods of Structural Reliability (Hardcover, 1993 ed.)
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Applied Methods of Structural Reliability (Hardcover, 1993 ed.)
Series: Topics in Safety, Reliability and Quality, 2
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A quarter of the century has elapsed since I gave my first course
in structural reliability to graduate students at the University of
Waterloo in Canada. Since that time on I have given many courses
and seminars to students, researchers, designers, and site
engineers interested in reliability. I also participated in and was
responsible for numerous projects where reliability solutions were
required. During that period, the scope of structural reliability
gradually enlarged to become a substantial part of the general
reliability theory. First, it is apparent that bearing structures
should not be isolated objectives of interest, and, consequently,
that constntCted facilities should be studied. Second, a new
engineering branch has emerged -reliability engineering. These two
facts have highlighted new aspects and asked for new approaches to
the theory and applications. I always state in my lectures that the
reliability theory is nothing more than mathematized engineering
judgment. In fact, thanks mainly to probability and statistics, and
also to computers, the empirical knowledge gained by Humankind's
construction experience could have been transposed into a pattern
of logic thinking, able to produce conclusions and to forecast the
behavior of engineering entities. This manner of thinking has
developed into an intricate network linked by certain rules, which,
in a way, can be considered a type of reliability grammar. We can
discern many grammatical concepts in the general structure of the
reliability theory.
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