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Reliability Problems in Earthquake Engineering

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Monograph
Authors: J. E. Hurtado
ISBN: 978-84-96736-86-3
Editorial: CIMNE
Year of publication: 2010
Pages: 143
Index: Basic concepts of structural reliability; Information characteristics of Monte Carlo simulation; Seismic random variables; Practical computation of seismic reliability; Reliability-based seismic optimization
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Monograph
Authors: J. E. Hurtado
ISBN: 978-84-96736-86-3
Editorial: CIMNE
Year of publication: 2010
Pages: 143
Index: Basic concepts of structural reliability; Information characteristics of Monte Carlo simulation; Seismic random variables; Practical computation of seismic reliability; Reliability-based seismic optimization
Description

This monograph deals with the problem of reliability analysis in the field of Earthquake
Engineering. Chapter 1 is devoted to a summary of the most widely used
reliability methods, with emphasis on Monte Carlo and solver surrogate techniques
used in the subsequent chapters. Chapter 2 presents a discussion of the Monte
Carlo from the viewpoint of Information Theory. Then, a discussion is made in
Chapter 3 on the selection of random variables in Earthquake Engineering. Next,
some practical methods for computing failure probabilities under seismic loads are
reported in Chapter 4. Finally, a method for reliability-based design optimization
under seismic loads is presented in Chapter 5.