Numerical Methods for Reliability and Safety Assessment: Multiscale and Multiphysics Systems

✍ Scribed by Seifedine Kadry, Abdelkhalak El Hami (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 807
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers unique insight on structural safety and reliability by combining computational methods that address multiphysics problems, involving multiple equations describing different physical phenomena and multiscale problems, involving discrete sub-problems that together describe important aspects of a system at multiple scales. The book examines a range of engineering domains and problems using dynamic analysis, nonlinear methods, error estimation, finite element analysis and other computational techniques.

This book also:

· Introduces novel numerical methods

· Illustrates new practical applications

· Examines recent engineering applications

· Presents up-to-date theoretical results

· Offers perspective relevant to a wide audience, including teaching faculty/graduate students, researchers and practicing engineers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Mechanical System Lifetime....Pages 3-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Likelihood-Based Approach for Uncertainty Quantification in Multi-Physics Systems....Pages 87-116
Bayesian Methodology for Uncertainty Quantification in Complex Engineering Systems....Pages 117-146
The Stimulus-Driven Theory of Probabilistic Dynamics....Pages 147-177
The Pavement Performance Modeling: Deterministic vs. Stochastic Approaches....Pages 179-196
Probabilistic Considerations in the Damage Analysis of Ship Collisions....Pages 197-214
An Advanced Point Estimate Method for Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis Using Nataf Transformation and Dimension-Reduction Integration....Pages 215-239
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Risk Assessment of Slope Instability Related Geohazards....Pages 243-269
Advances in System Reliability Analysis Under Uncertainty....Pages 271-303
Reliability of Base-Isolated Liquid Storage Tanks under Horizontal Base Excitation....Pages 305-328
Robust Design of Accelerated Life Testing and Reliability Optimization: Response Surface Methodology Approach....Pages 329-364
Reliability Measures Analysis of a Computer System Incorporating Two Types of Repair Under Copula Approach....Pages 365-385
Reliability of Profiled Blast Wall Structures....Pages 387-405
Reliability Assessment of a Multi-Redundant Repairable Mechatronic System....Pages 407-423
Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessment Toward Extreme Meteorological Events Using Satellite Data....Pages 425-438
Geostatistics and Remote Sensing for Extremes Forecasting and Disaster Risk Multiscale Analysis....Pages 439-458
Time-Dependent Reliability Analysis of Corrosion Affected Structures....Pages 459-498
Multicut-High Dimensional Model Representation for Reliability Bounds Estimation....Pages 499-510
Approximate Probability Density Function Solution of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Coupled Systems Under Poisson Impulses....Pages 511-527
Evaluate Reliability of Morgenstern–Price Method in Vertical Excavations....Pages 529-547
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Probabilistic Approach of Safety Factor from Failure Assessment Diagram....Pages 549-577
Assessing the Complex Interaction and Variations in Human Performance Using Nonmetrical Scaling Methods....Pages 579-598
Markov Modeling for Reliability Analysis Using Hypoexponential Distribution....Pages 599-620
Front Matter....Pages 621-621
Reliability-Based Design Optimization and Its Applications to Interaction Fluid Structure Problems....Pages 623-646
Improved Planning In-Service Inspections of Fatigued Aircraft Structures Under Parametric Uncertainty of Underlying Lifetime Models....Pages 647-673
Diffuse Response Surface Model Based on Advancing Latin Hypercube Patterns for Reliability-Based Design Optimization....Pages 675-706
The Stochastic Modeling of the Turning Decision by Left-Turning Vehicles at a Signalized Intersection in a University Campus....Pages 707-720
Decision Making Behavior of Earthquake Evacuees: An Application of Discrete Choice Models....Pages 721-735
Preventive Maintenance and Replacement Scheduling in Multi-component Systems....Pages 737-794
Back Matter....Pages 795-805

✦ Subjects

Structural Mechanics; Numerical and Computational Physics; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk