Overview
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (10 chapters)
Keywords
About this book
This book clearly shows that safety factors are closely related with the reliability of structures, giving yet another demonstration of Albert Einstein's maxim that "It is incomprehensible that Nature is comprehensible". The book shows that the safety factors are much more comprehensible if they are seen in a probabilistic context. Several definitions of the safety factors are given, analytical results on insightful numbers are presented, nonprobabilistic safety factors are shown, as well as their estimates derived by the inequalities of Bienayme, Markov, Chebushev and Camp-Meidell. A special chapter is devoted to important contributions by Japanese experts.
This volume will help to critically re-think the issue of safety factors, which can create a false feeling of security. The deterministic paradigm can be enhanced by incorporating probabilistic concepts wisely where they are needed without treating all variables as probabilistic ones. The book shows that there is a need of their integration rather than separation.
This book is intended for engineers, graduate students, lecturers and researchers.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Safety Factors and Reliability: Friends or Foes?
Authors: Isaac Elishakoff
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2131-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
-
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1779-7Published: 10 August 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6500-1Published: 01 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2131-2Published: 22 September 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 296
Topics: Civil Engineering, Classical Mechanics, Solid Mechanics