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Construction reliability : safety, variability and sustainability /

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"This book provides answers to the following problems: how to identify the most probable critical failures; how to describe and use data-concerning materials that are either heterogeneous, time-variant, or space-variant; how to quantify the reliability and lifetime of a system; how to use feedb...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Baroth, Julien, Schoefs, Franck, Breysse, D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: London : Hoboken, N.J. : ISTE ; John Wiley, 2011.
Series:ISTE.
Subjects:
Buildings > Reliability.
Public works > Reliability.
Structural failures > Prevention.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Qualitative methods for evaluating the reliability of civil engineering structures
  • pt. 2. Heterogeneity and variability of materials : consequences for safety and reliability
  • pt. 3. Metamodels for structural reliability
  • pt. 4. Methods for structural reliability over time
  • pt. 5. Reliability-based maintenance optimization.