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The first 12 chapters of this book are devoted to various aspects of structural reliability theory and its application to design and safety checking. In undertaking a reliability analysis, the engineer should take account of all known sources of uncertainty and should use this information to control the probabilities of structural failure and unserviceability within acceptable ranges. This can be done either directly, by modifying some part of the structure, or indirectly by modifying the partial coefficients. Allowance should be made for the possibility of the occurrence of all recognised failure modes, e.g. shear, buckling, plastic collapse, etc., together with various modes of unserviceability.
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Thoft-Christensen, P., Baker, M.J. (1982). Reliability Theory and Quality Assurance. In: Structural Reliability Theory and Its Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68697-9_13
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