13 Result(s)
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Fundamentals of Structural Reliability Theory
Structural reliability analysis differs in many important ways from reliability analysis as practised in, for example, the electronics and aero-space industries, in spite of the fact that the underlying probab...
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Extended Level 2 Methods
In chapter 5 a detailed presentation of level 2 methods was given. It was shown that the reliability index β of Hasofer and Lind is failure function invariant in the sense that equivalent failure functions result...
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Reliability Bounds for Structural Systems
In chapter 7, the concept of modelling of structural systems by series and parallel systems was introduced. It was shown that in general the exact determination of the probability of failure of such systems is...
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Load Combinations
The modelling of load variables is treated briefly in section 3.5. It is stressed there that load variables and other actions are typically time-varying quantities which are best modelled as stochastic process...
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The Treatment of Uncertainties in Structural Engineering
Until fairly recently there has been a tendency for structural engineering to be dominated by deterministic thinking, characterised in design calculations by the use of specified minimum material properties, s...
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Level 2 Methods
In chapters 1 and 4 an introduction to the fundamental concepts of structural reliability is given and the so-called level 2 methods are briefly mentioned. In this chapter, level 2 methods will be treated in a...
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Reliability of Structural Systems
In the preceding chapters the concept of reliability has mainly been concerned with single structural elements such as a beam or a column. In the fundamental case the loading is described by a single random va...
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Introduction to Stochastic Process Theory and its Uses
In the preceding chapters, loads and strengths have mainly been modelled by random variables with associated distribution functions. However, a load S on a given structure will usually be time-varying S(t). Th...
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Reliability Theory and Quality Assurance
The first 12 chapters of this book are devoted to various aspects of structural reliability theory and its application to design and safety checking. In undertaking a reliability analysis, the engineer should ...
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Fundamentals of Probability Theory
As emphasized in chapter 1, modern structural reliability analysis is based on a probabilistic point of view. It is therefore important to get a profound knowledge of at least some part of probability theory. ...
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Applications to Fixed Offshore Structures
In the previous chapter, structural reliability theory was found to be a valuable tool in the development of rational safety formats for design codes and for the evaluation of partial coefficients. This is a m...
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Probabilistic Models for Loads and Resistance Variables
In this chapter the aim is to examine the way in which suitable probabilistic models can be developed to represent the uncertainties that exist in typical basic variables. We shall first consider the problem o...
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Applications to Structural Codes
Structural codes are documents which, by their very nature, are subject to periodic revision and amendment, but the decade 1970–80 was a time of marked activity in code development. This is still continuing. T...
