Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems [Hardcover]

This book contains 38 papers presented at the seventh Working Conference on 'Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems' held at Boulder, Colorado, USA, on April 2-4, 1996. The Working Conference was organized by the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Working Group 7.5 of Technical Committee 7 and was the seventh in a series of similar conferences. The objectives of the Working Group and hence this publication are:

. to promote modern structural systems optimization and reliability theory,
. to advance international co-operation in the field of structural system optimization and reliability theory,
. to stimulate research, development and application of structural system optimization and reliability theory,
. to further dissemination and exchange of information on reliability and optimization of structural systems, and
. to encourage education in structural system organization and reliability theory.Chapter headings and selected papers: Part One: Keynote Lectures. Structural optimization: a lifetime project (R.B. Corotis). Structural optimization with reliability constraint (E. Polak et al.). Probabilistic models for the assessment of ship structural reliability (G. Guedes Soares). Reliability-based dual-level designs for seismic loads (Y.K. Wen). Part Two: Technical Contributions.