Reliability of Structures

ISBN-13: 9780367866273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 407 str.

Andrzej S. Nowak; Kevin R. Collins

Opis

This book enables students and practicing engineers to appreciate how to value and handle reliability as an important dimension of structural design. It discusses the concepts of limit states and limit state functions, and presents methodologies for calculating reliability indices and calibrating partial safety factors. It also supplies informat

Spis treści

Introduction. Random Variables. Functions of Random Variables. Simulation Techniques. Structural Safety Analysis. Structural Load Models. Models of Resistance. Design Codes. System Reliability. Uncertainties in the Building Process.

O autorze

Andrzej S. Nowak is Robert W. Brightfelt Professor of Engineering at the University of Nebraska, USA. He has received the ASCE Moisseiff Award, the IFIP WG 7.5 Award, the Bene Merentibus Medal, and the Kasimir Gzowski Medal from the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers.

Kevin R. Collins is an Associate Professor at Valley Forge Military College, USA.