Reliability Problems: General Principles and Applications in Mechanics of Solids and Structures

✍ Scribed by F. Casciati, J. B. Roberts (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Leaves: 272
Series: International Centre for Mechanical Sciences 317
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The aim of this volume is to present to researchers and engineers working on problems concerned with the mechanics of solids and structures, the current state of the development and application to procedures for assessing the reliability of a system. Particular attention is paid to their use in the analysis of complex engineering systems. The topics covered reflect the need to integrate, within the overall methodology, statistical methods for dealing with uncertain parameters and random excitation with the development of a suitable safety indexes and design codes. The basic principles of reliability theory, together with current standard methodology, including a consideration of the operational, economic and legal aspects of reliability assurance, is reviewed, together with an introduction to new developments, such as the application of expert systems technology. Damage accumulation predictions, with applications in seismic engineering are also covered.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-v
Random Vibration and First Passage Failure....Pages 1-49
Safety Index, Stochastic Finite Elements and Expert Systems....Pages 51-87
Methods for Structural Reliability Computations....Pages 89-135
Engineering, Operational, Economic, and Legal Aspects of the Reliability Assurance....Pages 137-159
Application of Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics and Damage Accumulation in Seismic Engineering....Pages 161-204
Statics and Reliability of Masonry Structures....Pages 205-235
Essay on Reliability Index, Probabilistic Interpretation of Safety Factor, and Convex Models of Uncertainty....Pages 237-271

✦ Subjects

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Complexity

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Principles of Loads and Failure Mechanis

📁 Principles of Loads and Failure Mechanisms: Applications in Maintenance, Reliability and Design

✍ T. Tinga (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Springer-Verlag London 🌐 English

Failure of components or systems must be prevented by both designers and operators of systems, but knowledge of the underlying mechanisms is often lacking. Since the relation between the expected usage of a system and its failure behavior is unknown, unexpected failures often occur, with possi

Reliability Theory and Its Application i

📁 Reliability Theory and Its Application in Structural and Soil Mechanics

✍ Ove Ditlevsen (auth.), P. Thoft-Christensen (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 1983 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

The proceedings contain lectures and short papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on »Reliability Theory and Its Application in Structural and Soil Me chanics», Bornholm, Denmark, August 31 -September 9,1982. The proceedings are organized in two parts. The first part contains 12 p

Mechanics of Solids and Structures (Appl

📁 Mechanics of Solids and Structures (Applied and Computational Mechanics)

✍ Roger T. Fenner, J.N. Reddy 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 CRC Press 🌐 English

A popular text in its first edition, Mechanics of Solids and Structures serves as a course text for the senior/graduate (fourth or fifth year) courses/modules in the mechanics of solid/advanced strength of materials, offered in aerospace, civil, engineering science, and mechanica

Functional Analysis: Applications in Mec

📁 Functional Analysis: Applications in Mechanics and Inverse Problems (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications)

✍ L.P. Lebedev, I.I. Vorovich, G.M. Gladwell, 📂 Library 📅 2002 🌐 English

This is a book for people who want to use functional analysis to justify approximate methods in Mechanics and Inverse Problems. It provides such researchers with the tools they need without having to assimilate or skip through concepts they do not need. For the applied mathematician, the essential d

IUTAM Symposium on Asymptotics, Singular

📁 IUTAM Symposium on Asymptotics, Singularities and Homogenisation in Problems of Mechanics (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications)

✍ A.B. Movchan 📂 Library 📅 2004 🌐 English

This volume contains the Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Liverpool in 2002. It includes the articles presenting the results of recent work in mathematical modelling that covers the following areas of continuum mechanics and theoretical physics: -Perturbation problems for partial diffe

Multifield Problems in Solid and Fluid M

📁 Multifield Problems in Solid and Fluid Mechanics (Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics)

✍ Rainer Helmig, Alexander Mielke, Barbara I. Wohlmuth 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 Springer 🌐 English

This book gives an overview of the research projects within the SFB 404 "Mehrfeldprobleme in der Kontinuumsmechanik". The book is for researchers and graduate students in applied mechanics and civil engineering.