Construction Reliability: Safety, Variability and Sustainability

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 feedback information to actualize reliability results; and how to optimize an inspection politic or a maintenance strategy. Numerous authors from public research centers and firms propose a synthesis of methods, both new and well-known, and offer numerous examples concerning dams, geotechnical study, and structures from nuclear and civil engineering.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848212305
• ISBN13: 9781848212305
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Wiley-Iste
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"