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Structural Reliability
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This course will give delegates an understanding of the fundamental principles of structural reliability and an appreciation of some advanced aspects which will be applied to a number of realistic problems, both analytically and numerically.
The course combines analysis techniques, probabilistics and the application of statistical information in the presentation of concepts associated with the reliability analysis of structures. Material, load, and resistance properties are presented and described. Monte-Carlo and FORM methods of reliability analysis are developed and applied. These are used with the statistical information to analyse realistic tractible structural reliability problems using structural mechanics principles to explore the methodology.
Course Objectives
The aim of the course is to enable delegates to understand the fundamental principles of structural reliability, to have an appreciation of some advanced aspects and to demonstrate their application through the solution of a number of realistic problems, both analytically and numerically.
The course provides:
- an understanding of the concept of structural reliability and its definitions in the context of structural engineering
- experience of qualification and quantification of structural reliability - statistical measurements of material and structure uncertainty, risk assessment and acceptability
- experience of the computation of structual reliability using alternative methods as a function of the nature of the mathematical model associated with the problem
- an appreciation of calibration and assesment methodologies applied to new and existing structures.
Course Outline
- Measures of structural reliability
- Statistical properties of structural materials and members
- Structural reliability assessment
- Integration and simulation methods
- Second-moment and transformation methods
- Codes and structural reliability.
Presenters
School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
- Prof Peter Gosling (Course Leader)
Fees
- Structural Reliability
- £975.00 (duration 5 days)
Formal assessment may be available for this Course. Assessment attracts an additional fee of £260.00, and delegates will be issued with a transcript and Certificate of Credit Achieved.
Owing to visa restrictions the assessment option is not available to international students.
Academic Module Outline
This course is also delivered as a Module on at least one of the School's Masters programmes; delegates will attend with full and part time registered students. The Academic Module Outline is available via the University's Module Catalogue.