Title:
Probability, reliability, and statistical methods in engineering design
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Publication Information:
New York : John Wiley, 2000
ISBN:
9780471331193
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Summary
Summary
Text for a one-term course on Probability and Statistics intended primarily for civil engineering majors. Most often taught out of the Civil Engineering Department. Covers the key concepts and statistical techniques for assessing the reliability of structures and the risk factors in their design.
Author Notes
Achintya Haldar, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Sankaran Mahadevan, PhD, is Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Table of Contents
| Basic Concept of Reliability |
| Mathematics of Probability |
| Modeling of Uncertainty |
| Commonly Used Probability Distributions |
| Determination of Distributions and Parameters from Observed Data |
| Randomness in Response Variables |
| Fundamentals of Reliability Analysis |
| Advanced Topics on Reliability Analysis |
| Simulation Techniques |
| Appendices |
| Conversion Factors |
| References |
| Index |
