Dominic Reeve

Risk and Reliability

Coastal and Hydraulic Engineering

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book delineates the methods required by government agencies for river and sea defense design and flood defense system management and demonstrates how to evaluate uncertainty in the performance of flood and erosion defenses. It introduces the statistical concepts required for the implementation of a reliability analysis and describes the analytical and the numerical methods with worked examples. The author provides examples of applications of the methods to illustrate their advantages and limitations, and includes case studies drawn from his experience in academia and consulting.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780367385224
• ISBN-10: 0367385228
• Artikelnr.: 58058929

Autorenporträt

Dominic Reeve is a Professor at the University of Plymouth, UK, and author of Coastal Engineering: Processes, Theory and Design Practice, also published by Taylor & Francis.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Introduction to Probability 3. Elements of Probability
and Stochastic Processes 4. Extremes 5. Uncertainty and Reliability
Analysis 6. Applications 7. Reliability of Systems Epilogue References.
Appendix A: Statistical tables. Appendix B: Flow Chart for Choice of Method