Probability, reliability, and statistical methods in engineering design

"Haldar and Mahadevan crystallize the research and experience of the last few decades into the most up-to-date book on risk-based design concepts in engineering available. The fundamentals of reliability and statistics necessary for risk-based engineering analysis and design are clearly present...

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Main Author: Haldar, Achintya
Other Authors: Mahadevan, Sankaran
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Chichester [England] John Wiley c2000
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Table of Contents:
  • Basic Concept of Reliability
  • Mathematics of Probability
  • Modeling of Uncertainty
  • Commonly Used Probability Distributions
  • Determination of Distributions and Parameters from Observed Data
  • Randomness in Response Variables
  • Fundamentals of Reliability Analysis
  • Advanced Topics on Reliability Analysis
  • Simulation Techniques
  • App.1. Table of the CDF of the Standard Normal Distribution
  • App.2. Evaluation of Gamma Function
  • App.3. Table of the CDF of the Chi-Square Distribution with f Degrees of Freedom
  • App.4. Values of D[actual symbol not reproducible] for the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) Test
  • App.5. Table of the CDF of Student's t-Distribution
  • App.6. Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization
  • Conversion Factors