Structural Reliability - by Yan-Gang Zhao & Zhao-Hui Lu (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The aim of this book is to deliver a unified presentation of the theory and techniques with the emphases on the applications of the moment information of random variables for structural reliability. The contents of the book will be useful for post-graduate students, researchers and engineers in the field of civil, mechanical, aerospace and aeronautical and ship engineering, and so forth. Structural reliability deals with the safety evaluation and risk assessment of engineering structures. The structures include the buildings, bridges, aircrafts, etc., refer to those bodies or systems consisting of some materials in a certain way and having the function of bearing loads and actions. One of the principal aims of structural design is the assurance of structural performance within the constraint of economy. The reliability of a structure can therefore be defined as its ability to fulfill its design purpose for a specified reference period. Since the deterministic approach failed to provide a quantitative measure of safety, probabilistic measure of safety, i.e., the structural reliability theory, has to be used. The use of the first few moments of random variables and the performance function, in original form or in its first/second order approximation, form the basic content of the book. The methods, being easy to be implemented, can avoid the shortcomings of FORM, such as the design points, derivative-based iterative computation, and thus are expected to be conveniently applied to structural reliability analysis and reliability based design"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY</b> <p><b>Discover a new and innovative approach to structural reliability from two authoritative and accomplished authors</b><p>The subject of structural reliability, which deals with the problems of evaluating the safety and risk posed by a wide variety of structures, has grown rapidly over the last four decades. And while the First-Order Reliability Method is principally used by most textbooks on this subject, other approaches have identified some of the limitations of that method.<p>In <i>Structural Reliability: Approaches from Perspectives of Statistical Moments</i>, accomplished engineers and authors Yan-Gang Zhao and Dr. Zhao-Hui Lu, deliver a concise and insightful exploration of an alternative and innovative approach to structural reliability. Called the Methods of Moment, the authors' approach is based on the information of statistical moments of basic random variables and the performance function. The Methods of Moment approach facilitates -structural reliability analysis and reliability-based design and can be extended to other engineering disciplines, yielding further insights into challenging problems involving -randomness.<p>Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of: <ul><li>A thorough introduction to the measures of structural safety, including uncertainties in structural design, deterministic measures of safety, and probabilistic measures of safety</li><li>An exploration of the fundamentals of structural reliability theory, including the performance function and failure probability</li><li>A practical discussion of moment evaluation for performance functions, including moment computation for both explicit and implicit performance functions</li><li>A concise treatment of direct methods of moment, including the third- and fourth-moment reliability methods</li></ul><p>Perfect for professors, researchers, and graduate students in civil engineering, <i>Structural Reliability: Approaches from Perspectives of Statistical Moments</i> will also earn a place in the libraries of professionals and students working or studying in mechanical engineering, aerospace and aeronautics engineering, marine and offshore engineering, ship engineering, and applied mechanics.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p><b>Discover a new and innovative approach to structural reliability from two authoritative and accomplished authors</b></p><p>The subject of structural reliability, which deals with the problems of evaluating the safety and risk posed by a wide variety of structures, has grown rapidly over the last four decades. And while the First-Order Reliability Method is principally used by most textbooks on this subject, other approaches have identified some of the limitations of that method.</p><p>In <i>Structural Reliability: Approaches from Perspectives of Statistical Moments</i>, accomplished engineers and authors Yan-Gang Zhao and Dr. Zhao-Hui Lu, deliver a concise and insightful exploration of an alternative and innovative approach to structural reliability. Called the Methods of Moment, the authors' approach is based on the information of statistical moments of basic random variables and the performance function. The Methods of Moment approach facilitates -structural reliability analysis and reliability-based design and can be extended to other engineering disciplines, yielding further insights into challenging problems involving -randomness.</p><p>Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of: </p><ul><li>A thorough introduction to the measures of structural safety, including uncertainties in structural design, deterministic measures of safety, and probabilistic measures of safety</li><li>An exploration of the fundamentals of structural reliability theory, including the performance function and failure probability</li><li>A practical discussion of moment evaluation for performance functions, including moment computation for both explicit and implicit performance functions</li><li>A concise treatment of direct methods of moment, including the third- and fourth-moment reliability methods</li></ul><p>Perfect for professors, researchers, and graduate students in civil engineering, <i>Structural Reliability: Approaches from Perspectives of Statistical Moments</i> will also earn a place in the libraries of professionals and students working or studying in mechanical engineering, aerospace and aeronautics engineering, marine and offshore engineering, ship engineering, and applied mechanics.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Yan-Gang Zhao, Dr. Eng., </b> is Professor at Kanagawa University, Japan and a Foreign Associate of the Engineering Academy of Japan.</p><p><b>Zhao-Hui Lu, Dr. Eng., </b> is Professor at Beijing University of Technology and former Professor at Central South University, China.</p>
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