Recent Developments In Reliability-Based Civil Engineering
Contents
- Chapter Risk And Risk Perception For Low Probability, High
- Consequence Events In The Built Environment
- Ross B Corotis
- Why Risk?
- Structural Reliability
- Mathematical Basis
- Mathematical Reliability Versus Codified Design
- Risk And Risk Perception
- Low Probabilities And High Consequences
- Issues With Events Of Small Probability
- Issues With The Convolution Of Probability And Consequence
- Issues Of Political Accountability
- Alternative Decision Criteria
- Expected Value
- Minimum Regret
- Minimax And As Low As Reasonable
- Additional Criteria
- Societal Decisionmaking
- Tradeoffs
Development, Sustainability And Intergenerational Issues
- Assessing Risks And Benefits
- Economic Lifetime
- Utility And Discounting
- Probabilistic Risk Versus Uncertainty
- Objective And Subjective Probability
- Aleatoric And Epistemic Uncertainty
- Psychological Distinctions
- Risk Or Risk Perception?
- Political Issues
- References
- Chapter Socioeconomic Risk Acceptability Criteria
- R¨Udiger Rackwitz
- Introduction
- Theoretical Developments
- Swtp’s For Some Selected Countries
- Application To Eventtype Hazards From Technical Facilities And
- The Natural Environment
- Summary And Conclusions
- References
- Chapter Reliability In Structural Performance Evaluation And Design
