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Analyzing Uncertainty in Civil Engineering (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005) Loot Price: R4,348
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Analyzing Uncertainty in Civil Engineering (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005): Wolfgang Fellin, Heimo...

Analyzing Uncertainty in Civil Engineering (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)

Wolfgang Fellin, Heimo Lessmann, Michael Oberguggenberger, Robert Vieider

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This volumeaddressestheissueofuncertaintyincivilengineeringfromdesign toconstruction. Failures do occur in practice. Attributing them to a residual risk or a faulty execution of the projectdoesnotproperlycover the range of causes. A closer scrutiny of the design, the engineering model, the data, the soil-structure-interactionand the model assumptions is required. Usually, the uncertaintiesininitialandboundaryconditionsaswellasmaterialparameters are abundant. Current engineering practice often leaves these issues aside, despite the factthatnewscienti?c tools have been developed in the past decades that allow a rational description of uncertainties of all kinds, from model uncertainty to data uncertainty. It is the aim of this volume to have a critical look atcurrent engineering riskconcepts in order to raise awareness of uncertainty in numericalcom- tations, shortcomings of a strictly probabilistic safety concept, geotechnical models of failure mechanisms and their implications forconstruction mana- ment, execution, and the juristic questionas to who has to takeresponsibility. In addition, a number ofthe new procedures for modelling uncertaintyare- plained. Our central claim is that doubts and uncertainties must be openly - dressed in the design process. This contrasts certain tendencies in the en- neering community that, though incorporating uncertainties by one or the other way in the modelling process, claim to being able tocontrol the

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Imprint: Springer-Verlag
Country of origin: Germany
Release date: October 2010
First published: 2005
Editors: Wolfgang Fellin • Heimo Lessmann • Michael Oberguggenberger • Robert Vieider
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 242
Edition: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
ISBN-13: 978-3-642-06078-6
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Probability & statistics
Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Meteorology > General
Books > Professional & Technical > Mechanical engineering & materials > Production engineering > Reliability engineering
Books > Professional & Technical > Mechanical engineering & materials > Materials science > Mechanics of solids > General
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LSN: 3-642-06078-1
Barcode: 9783642060786

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