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Extended Level 2 Methods

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In chapter 5 a detailed presentation of level 2 methods was given. It was shown that the reliability index β of Hasofer and Lind is failure function invariant in the sense that equivalent failure functions result in the same reliability index.

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  1. Institute of Building Technology and Structural Engineering, Aalborg University Centre, Aalborg, Denmark

    Palle Thoft-Christensen Ph. D. (Professor)

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England

    Michael J. Baker B.Sc. (Eng)

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Thoft-Christensen, P., Baker, M.J. (1982). Extended Level 2 Methods. In: Structural Reliability Theory and Its Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68697-9_6

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