Probability, Reliability, and Statistical Methods in Engineering Design

✍ Scribed by Achintya Haldar, Sankaran Mahadevan

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 318
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ 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.

✦ Subjects

Машиностроение и материалообработка;Теория надежности;