What is reliability analysis?
You might be familiar with terminology of LRFD and seen many load and resistance factors, available for your civil infrastructure design. Have you ever considered how come those factors derived and how those factors to play roles in saving total design/construction cost while reducing probability of design failure? You should understand the concept of reliability analysis to fully understand the on-going LRFD practices, required for rehabilitation of critical infrastructures- old bridges and dams. I will introduce the basic principles of reliability analysis with different confidence levels, required by each critical civil infrastructure in my two online course works, starting on next Monday (4/19). If you are more interested in practical LRFD application to geotechnical problems, the first choice will work better for you. If you are more interested in risk control of your on-going projects using best available probabilistic/stochastic methods, the 2nd choice will be best for your study.
Hope to see you soon.
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