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Analyzing Uncertainty in Civil Engineering (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
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Analyzing Uncertainty in Civil Engineering (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
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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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