Andrzej S. Nowak, Kevin R. Collins

Gebundenes Buch

Reliability of Structures

Beschreibung

This book enables students and practicing 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 both applied loads and member resistances. This revised and extended second edition contains expanded discussions of U.S. and international codes and Monte Carlo simulation, as well as more examples.

Autor

Andrzej S. Nowak is Robert W. Brightfelt Professor of Engineering at the University of Nebraska, USA. He has received the ASCE Moisseiff Award, the IFIP WG 7.5 Award, the Bene Merentibus Medal, and the Kasimir Gzowski Medal from the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers. Kevin R. Collins is an Associate Professor at Valley Forge Military College, USA.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 775g
• ISBN-13: 9780415675758
• ISBN-10: 0415675758
• Artikelnr.: 33111716