Recent developments in reliability-based civil engineering
[Book]
/ editor, Achintya Haldar
Hackensack, N.J.
: World Scientific,
, c2006.
xviii, 277 p. , ill., charts , 26 cm.
Electronic
Includes bibliographic references and index.
Ch. 1.Risk and risk perception for low probability, high consequence events in the built environment /Ross B. Corotis --ch. 2Socio-economic risk acceptability criteria /Reudiger Rackwitz --ch. 3.Reliability in structural performance evaluation and design /Y. K. Wen --ch. 4.Performance-based reliability evaluation of structure-foundation systems /Mostafiz Chowdhury and Achintya Haldar --ch. 5.Application of probabilistic methods in bridge engineering /Michel Ghosn --ch. 6.Stochastic response of fixed offshore structures /Ser-Tong Quek, Xiang-Yuan Zheng and Chih-Young Liaw --ch. 7.Application of reliability methods to fatigue analysis and design /Paul H. Wirsching --ch. 8.Probabilistic models for corrosion in structural reliability assessment /Robert E. Melchers --ch. 9.Seismic risk assessment of realistic frame structures using a hybrid reliability method /Jungwon Huh and Achintya Haldar --ch. 10.Meshfree methods in computational stochastic mechanics /Sharif Rahman --ch. 11.Reliability analysis using information from experts /Jamshid Mohammadi and Eduardo Desantiago --ch. 12.Risk-based optimization of life-cycle cost for deteriorating civil engineering infrastructures /Reudiger Rackwitz --ch. 13.Structural health assessment under uncertainty /Hasan Katkhuda and Achintya Haldar.