… Generally speaking, reliability analysis and design of engineering structures often face the
… of structures, a general URBDO model combines uncertainty reliability demands into design …

… Reliability assessment of engineered structures is a powerful … time-dependent reliability of
deteriorating structures. Generally, … solving high-dimensional reliability problems. Conversely, …

… reliability analysis method based on evidence theory is developed to evaluate the uncertain
structures reliability. … element is performed to solve the reliability measure indexes: the belief …

… theory establishes a key relationship between the partial safety factor concept and the reliability
theory of … of the reliability index into nonlinearity-invariant partial reliability indexes. This …

… This book presents the probabilistic approach to assessing the reliability of structures and
infrastructure systems. The word reliability is used to denote the complement of the failure …

… theories are evidence theory, possibility theory, fuzzy set theory and, of course, probability
theory… A simple case study will be used to illustrate how conventional reliability theory can be …

… of structures [6], the fuzzy reliability index [7, 8], the fuzzy … as a basis for assessing fuzzy
reliability is a reasonable … structural fuzzy reliability by using the classical reliability theory. Firstly, …

… of the structural reliability theory in design specifications for hydraulic structures, we
systematically … and revised in the light of the structural reliability theory. The analytical method of …

… reliability index to comment on the satisfaction of structural performance. Table 4.1 presents
the target reliability … (the risk category of buildings and other structures, which are determined …

… Because of its advantages in correlation modeling, some scholars try to combine copula
function with evidence theory to solve the reliability problems of complex engineering structures …