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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haldar, Achintya.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reliability (Engineering).

Civil engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Authored by the most active scholars in their respective areas, this volume covers the most recent developments, both theoretical and applicative, in multi-disciplinary reliability evaluation areas, many of which are cutting-edge and not discussed elsewhere in book form.The broad coverage includes the latest thoughts on design for low probability and high consequence events like the failure of the World Trade Center as well as risk acceptability based on the Life Quality Index. Other chapters discuss the development of the performance-based design concept, and the generally overlooked area of

Contents:

Preface; CONTENTS; Chapter 1. Risk and Risk Perception for Low Probability, High Consequence Events in the Built Environment Ross B. Corotis; 1. Why Risk?; 2. Structural Reliability; 2.1. Mathematical basis; 2.2. Mathematical reliability versus codified design; 3. Risk and Risk Perception; 4. Low Probabilities and High Consequences; 4.1. Issues with events of small probability; 4.2. Issues with the convolution of probability and consequence; 4.3. Issues of political accountability; 5. Alternative Decision Criteria; 5.1. Expected value; 5.2. Minimum regret

5.3. Mini-max and as low as reasonable 5.4. Additional criteria; 6. Societal Decision-Making; 6.1. Trade-offs; 6.2. Development, sustainability and inter-generational issues; 6.3. Assessing risks and benefits; 6.4. Economic lifetime; 6.5. Utility and discounting; 6.6. Probabilistic risk versus uncertainty; 6.6.1. Objective and subjective probability; 6.6.2. Aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty; 6.6.3. Psychological distinctions; 6.7. Risk or risk perception?; 6.8. Political issues; References; Chapter 2. Socio-Economic Risk Acceptability Criteria Rudiger Rackwitz; 1. Introduction

2. Theoretical Developments 3. SWTP's for Some Selected Countries; 4. Application to Event-Type Hazards from Technical Facilities and the Natural Environment; 5. Summary and Conclusions; References; Chapter 3. Reliability in Structural Performance Evaluation and Design Y. K. Wen; 1. Introduction; 2. Reliability-Based Performance-Oriented Design; 2.1. Performance goal; 2.2. Reliability evaluation; 2.3. Effect of capacity and epistemic uncertainty; 2.4. IDA analysis of capacity against incipient collapse; 2.5. Reliability-based design; 2.6. Target reliability level

3. Minimum Lifecycle Cost Design Criteria 3.1. Design based on optimization; 3.2. Design against earthquakes; 3.3. Design against earthquake and wind hazards; 4. Application to Vulnerability and Retrofit Analysis; 5. Reliability and Redundancy; 5.1. Steel moment frames of different connection ductility capacities; 5.2. Uniform-risk redundancy factor RR; 5.3. Moment frames of different configurations; 6. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 4. Performance-Based Reliability Evaluation of Structure-Foundation Systems Mosta.z Chowdhury and Achintya Haldar; 1. Introduction

2. Reliability-Based Approaches 3. Performance Functions; 3.1. Strength performance functions; 3.2. Serviceability performance functions; 4. System Reliability; 4.1. Performance modes (PM) - Brittle behavior of piles; 4.1.1. Evaluation of the most significant performance mode; 4.1.2. Upper bound evaluation of the system probability of UP; 4.2. Performance modes (PM) - Ductile behavior of piles; 4.2.1. Evaluation of the most significant performance mode; 4.2.2. Upper bound evaluation of the system probability of UP; 5. Illustrative Examples

5.1. System reliability bounds considering brittle behavior of piles

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

9786611909055

9781281909053

128190905X

9789812707222

9812707220

OCLC:

854973184