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STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY AND RISK ANALYSIS – 4 Year FILS

Foreword

These lecture notes provides an insight into the concepts, methods and procedures of
structural reliability and risk analysis considering the presence of random uncertainties. The
course is addressed to undergraduate students from Faculty of Engineering in Foreign
Languages instructed in English language as well as to postgraduate students in structural
engineering. The objectives of the courses are:

- to provide a review of mathematical tools for quantifying uncertainties using theories
of probability, random variables and random processes;

- to develop the theory of methods of structural reliability based on concept of reliability
indices;
- to explain the basics of code calibration;

- to evaluate actions on buildings and structures due to natural hazards;

- to provide the basics of risk analysis;
- to provide the necessary background to carry out reliability based design and risk-
based decision making and to apply the concepts and methods of performance-based
engineering;

- to prepare the ground for students to undertake research in this field.

The content of the lectures in Structural Reliability and Risk Analysis is:
- Introduction to probability and random variables; distributions of probability

- Formulation of reliability concepts for structural components; exact solutions, first-
order reliability methods; reliability indices; basis for probabilistic design codes

- Seismic hazard analysis

- Evaluation of snow, wind and earthquake loads for design of structures.

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