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Informationen zum Autor Armen Der Kiureghian is the Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and a co-founder and President Emeritus of the American University of Armenia. He is also a Distinguished Alumnus of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering. Klappentext Offers a modern, rigorous and comprehensive treatment of the subject using numerous well-designed examples and end-of-chapter problems. Zusammenfassung Offers a rigorous and comprehensive treatment of reliability analysis of structures and systems using numerous examples and end-of-chapter problems. Accompanied online by a solutions manual and PowerPoint slides, it is the ideal textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in departments of civil, environmental and mechanical engineering. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Review of probability theory; 3. Multivariate distributions; 4. Formulation of structural reliability; 5. Analysis of structural reliability under incomplete probability information; 6. The first-order reliability method; 7. The second-order reliability method; 8. System reliability; 9. Simulation methods; 10. Bayesian parameter estimation and reliability updating; 11. Time- and space-variant reliability analysis; 12. Finite-element reliability methods; 13. Reliability methods for stochastic structural dynamics; 14. Reliability-based design optimization; 15. Bayesian network for reliability assessment and updating; References; Index.
