Recent developments in reliability-based civil engineering

Recent developments in reliability-based civil engineering / editor, Achintya Haldar.

Authored by the most active scholars in their respective areas, this volume covers the most recent developments, both theoretical and applicative, in structural reliability evaluation areas, many of which are cutting-edge and not discussed elsewhere in book form. The broad coverage includes the late...

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Other Authors: Haldar, Achintya
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2006.
Subjects:
Reliability (Engineering)
Civil engineering.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Quality Control.
Civil engineering
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Risk and risk perception for low probability, high consequence events in the built environment / Ross B. Corotis
  • Ch. 2. Socio-economic risk acceptability criteria / Rudiger Rackwitz
  • Ch. 3. Reliability in structural performance evaluation and design / Y.K. Wen
  • Ch. 4. Performance-based reliability evaluation of structure-foundation systems / Mostafiz Chowdhury and Achintya Haldar
  • Ch. 5. Application of probabilistic methods in bridge engineering / Michel Ghosn
  • Ch. 6. Stochastic response of fixed offshore structures / Ser-Tong Quek, Xiang-Yuan Zheng and Chih-Young Liaw
  • Ch. 7. Application of reliability methods to fatigue analysis and design / Paul H. Wirsching
  • Ch. 8. Probabilistic models for corrosion in structural reliability assessment / Robert E. Melchers
  • Ch. 9. Seismic risk assessment of realistic frame structures using a hybrid reliability method / Jungwon Huh and Achintya Haldar
  • Ch. 10. Meshfree methods in computational stochastic mechanics / Sharif Rahman
  • Ch. 11. Reliability analysis using information from experts / Jamshid Mohammadi and Eduardo Desantiago
  • Ch. 12. Risk-based optimization of life-cycle cost for deteriorating civil engineering infrastructures / Rudiger Rackwitz
  • Ch. 13. Structural health assessment under uncertainty / Hasan Katkhuda and Achintya Haldar.

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