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Record Nr.

UNINA9910138866903321

Titolo

Construction reliability [[electronic resource] ] : safety, variability and sustainability / / edited by Julien Baroth, Franck Schoefs, Denys Breysse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : ISTE

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley, 2011

ISBN

1-118-60109-2

1-118-60112-2

1-118-60094-0

1-299-18756-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Collana

ISTE

Altri autori (Persone)

BarothJulien

SchoefsFranck

BreysseD

Disciplina

624

Soggetti

Buildings - Reliability

Public works - Reliability

Structural failures - Prevention

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 struc