This book is a collection of nine specific application cases of various non-destructive test (NDT) methods in fatigue and fracture reliability assessment of structures. The reader will find it useful in learning about areas where current methods have actually been applied in real world applications. Applications cited include problems, such as steel girder bridges, airframe systems, welded connections, and bridge components (including concrete slabs), which were subjected to fracture failure. Instructors and graduate students of structural engineering courses as well as structural engineers will find the fatigue reliability assessment extremely beneficial. A variety of NDT methods are included: structural monitoring; use of various methods for the identification of the extent of damage; acoustic emissions technique; electro-magnetic; portable hardness test; liquid penetrant; magnetic particle; radiography; residual stress by hole drill; and ultrasonic methods.

This extensively revised comprehensive textbook, covering a wide range of topics, is suitable for courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, each with a different emphasis. There is more than enough material to cover two semesters of an undergraduate course, as well as a one semester graduate course. The pedagogy provides enough flexibility for an instructor to teach the topics in systems engineering she or he would like. Systems Engineering with Economics, Probability and Statistics, Second Edition is sufficiently broad-based for undergraduate and graduate programs in various branches of engineering and management.