Reliability of Structures

by Kevin R. Collins and Andrzej Nowak

Reliability of Structures enables both students and practising 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 information on the probability distributions and parameters used to characterize...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415675758
• ISBN13: 9780415675758
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 407 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"