Numerical Methods for Reliability and Safety Assessment (eBook)

Mechanical system lifetime.- Likelihood-based approach for uncertainty quantification in multi-physics systems.- Bayesian methodology for uncertainty quantification in complex engineering systems.- The simulus-driven theory of probabilistic dynamics (SDTPD).- The pavement performance modeling: Deterministic vs. stochastic approaches.- Probabilistic considerations in the damage analysis of ship collisions.- An advanced point estimate method for uncertainty and sensitivity analysis using Nataf transformation and dimension-reduction integration.- Risk assessment of slope instability related geohazards.- Advances in system reliability analysis under uncertainty.- Reliability of base-isolated liquid storage tanks under horizontal base excitation.- Robust design of accelerated life testing and reliability optimization: Response surface methodology approach.- Reliability measures analysis of a computer system incorporating two types of repair under copula approach.- Reliability of profiled blast wall structures.- Reliability assessment of a multi-redundant repairable mechatronic system.- Infrastructure vulnerability assessment toward extreme meteorological events using satellite data.- Geostatistics and remote sensing for extremes forecasting and disaster risk multiscale analysis.- Time dependent reliability analysis of corrosion affected structures.- Multicut-high dimensional model representation for reliability bounds estimation.- Approximate probability density function solution of multi-degree-of-freedom coupled systems under Poisson impulses.- Evaluate reliability of Morgenstern-Price method in vertical excavations.- Probabilistic approach of safety factor from failure assessment diagram.- Assessing the complex interaction and variations in human performance using non-metrical scaling methods.- Markov modeling for reliability analysis using hypoexponential distribution.- Reliability-based design optimization and its applications to interaction fluid structure problems.- Improved planning in-service inspections of fatigued aircraft structures under parametric uncertainty of underlying lifetime models.- Diffuse response surface model based on advancing Latin hypercube patters for reliability-based design optimization.- The stochastic modeling of the turning decision by left-turning vehicles at a signalized intersection in a university campus.- Decision making behavior of earthquake evacuees: An application of discrete choice models.- Preventive maintenance and replacement scheduling in multi-component systems.