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Based on material taught at the University of California, Berkeley, this textbook offers a modern, rigorous and comprehensive treatment of the methods of structural and system reliability analysis. It covers the first- and second-order reliability methods for components and systems, simulation methods, time- and space-variant reliability, and Bayesian parameter estimation and reliability updating. It also presents more advanced, state-of-the-art topics such as finite-element reliability methods, stochastic structural dynamics, reliability-based optimal design, and Bayesian networks. A wealth of well-designed examples connect…
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Self-contained, including all necessary background material from probability theory
Includes a wealth of well-designed examples to connect theory with practice, with simple examples demonstrating mathematical concepts and larger examples demonstrating their potential uses
Includes numerous end-of-chapter homework problems
Accompanied online by a solutions manual and PowerPoint slides for instructors
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Author
Armen Der Kiureghian,University of California, Berkeley
Armen Der Kiureghian is the Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and a co-founder and President Emeritus of the American University of Armenia. He is also a Distinguished Alumnus of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering.