Nowak / Collins Reliability of Structures, Second Edition

2. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-203-80914-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 407 Seiten

Reliability of Structures enables both students and practising engineers to appreciate how to value and handle reliability as an important dimension of structural design. It discusses the concepts of limit states and limit state functions, and presents methodologies for calculating reliability indices and calibrating partial safety factors. It also supplies information on the probability distributions and parameters used to characterize both applied loads and member resistances.
This revised and extended second edition contains more discussions of US and international codes and the issues underlying their development. There is significant revision and expansion of the discussion on Monte Carlo simulation, along with more examples.
The book serves as a textbook for a one-semester course for advanced undergraduates or graduate students, or as a reference and guide to consulting structural engineers. Its emphasis is on the practical applications of structural reliability theory rather than the theory itself. Consequently, probability theory is treated as a tool, and enough is given to show the novice reader how to calculate reliability. Some background in structural engineering and structural mechanics is assumed.
A companion website provides a solutions manual for problems in the book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nowak, Andrzej S.

Collins, Kevin R.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technische Zuverlässigkeit, Sicherheitstechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Konstruktiver Ingenieurbau, Baustatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Overview
Objectives of the Book
Possible Applications
Historical Perspective
Uncertainties in the Building Process

Random Variables
Basic Definitions
Properties of Probability Functions (CDF, PDF, and PMF)
Parameters of a Random Variable
Common Random Variables
Probability Paper
Interpretation of Test Data Using Statistics
Conditional Probability
Random Vectors
Correlation
Bayesian Updating
Problems

Functions of Random Variables
Linear Functions of Random Variables
Linear Functions of Normal Variables
Product of Lognormal Random Variables

Nonlinear Function of Random Variables
Central Limit Theorem
Problems

Simulation Techniques
Monte Carlo Methods
Latin Hypercube Sampling
Rosenblueth’s 2K + 1 Point Estimate Method

Structural Safety Analysis
Limit states
Fundamental Case
Reliability Index
Rackwitz–Fiessler Procedure
Reliability Analysis Using Simulation
Problems

Structural Load Models
Types of Load
General Load Models
Dead Load
Live Load in Buildings
Live Load for Bridges
Environmental Loads
Load Combinations
Problems

Models of rResistance
Parameters of Resistance
Steel Components

Aluminum Structures
Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete Components
Wood Components

Design Codes
Overview
Role of a Code in the Building Process

Code Levels

Code Development Procedure

Calibration of Partial Safety Factors for a Level I Code

Development of a Bridge Design Code
Example of the Code Calibration—ACI 318

Concluding Remarks
Problems

System Reliability
Elements and Systems
Series and Parallel Systems
Reliability Bounds for Structural Systems
Systems with Equally Correlated Elements
Systems with Unequally Correlated Elements
Summary
Problems

Uncertainties in the Building Process
Introduction
Classification of Errors
Error Surveys
Approach to Errors
Sensitivity Analysis
Other Approaches
Conclusions
Appendix A: Acronyms

Appendix B: Values of the CDF F(z) for the Standard Normal Probability Distribution

Appendix C: Values of the Gamma Function

Bibliography

Index