Reliability-based Structural Design

• Main Authors: Choi, Seung-Kyum (Author), Canfield, Robert A. (Author), Grandhi, Ramana V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2007.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computational intelligence.; Structural mechanics.; Automotive engineering.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Computational Intelligence.; Structural Mechanics.; Automotive Engineering.

As modern structures require more critical and complex designs, the need for accurate approaches to assess uncertainties in loads, geometry, material properties, manufacturing processes and operational environments has increased significantly. Reliability assessment techniques help to develop safe d...

Table of Contents:

• Preliminaries
• Probabilistic Analysis
• Methods of Structural Reliability
• Reliability-based Structural Optimization
• Stochastic Expansion for Probabilistic Analysis
• Probabilistic Analysis Examples via Stochastic Expansion
• Summary.