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Structural reliability analysis differs in many important ways from reliability analysis as practised in, for example, the electronics and aero-space industries, in spite of the fact that the underlying probabilistic nature of the problems are the same. A clear understanding of these differences is helpful and they will be discussed later. Both branches have developed from classical reliability theory - a subject which evolved as a result of the increasing need for reliable electronic systems during the 1940’s, initially for military applications.
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Thoft-Christensen, P., Baker, M.J. (1982). Fundamentals of Structural Reliability Theory. In: Structural Reliability Theory and Its Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68697-9_4
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