商品簡介
Cremona heads the civil engineering and construction wing of the French Ministry for Sustainable Development's research and innovation efforts. Drawing on his experience teaching in engineering schools and continuing education, he offers students, engineers, and researchers a panorama of methods for implementing a probabilistic approach to structural performance. This is neither a textbook on reliability theory nor a technical set of guidelines for assessing the performance of structures, he says, but something between, connecting theoretical concepts to practical problems found in structural assessments. He covers concepts from probability theory and statistics; structural safety, performance, and risk; performance-based assessment; the structural assessment of existing structures; specificities of existing structures; and principles of decision theory. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Christian Cremona is Head of the civil engineering and construction group.
