Safety Factors and Reliability: Friends or Foes? /

Have you ever wondered where the safety factors come from? Why is it that deterministic analysis has reached a very sophisticated level, but in the end empirical factors are still needed? Is there a way to select them, rather than assigning them arbitrarily as is often done? This book clearly shows...

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Main Author:	Elishakoff, Isaac
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2004.
Subjects:	Engineering. Mechanics. Mechanical engineering. Civil engineering. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book