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RELIABILITY Bibliography

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Instructor:

Dr. Arunasis Chakraborty

Department of Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

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1. Bibliography

Text Book

(1) Papoulis, A. and Pillai, S.U. (2002). Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic

Processes, Tata McGraw-Hill.

(2) Ranganathan, R. (2000). Structural Reliability: Analysis and Design, Jaico Publishing

House

(3) Haldar, A. and Mahadevan, S. (2000). Reliability Assessment Using Stochastic Finite

Element Analysis, John Wiley & Sons.

Reference Book

(1) Ang, A.H.S. and Tang, W.H. (1984). Probability Concepts in Engineering Planning and

Design, Vollume-II Decision, Risk and Reliability, John Willey & Sons.

(2) Ayyub, B.M. and McCuen, R.H. (2010). Probability, Statistics and Reliability for

Engineers and Scientists, Chapman & Hall/CRC

(3) Breitung K.W. (1994). Asymptotic Approximations for Probability Integrals, Springer-

Verlag

(4) Bucher, C. (2009). Computation Analysis of Randomness in Structural Mechanics, CRC

Press

(5) Choi, S.K., Grandhi, R.V. and Canfield, R.A. (2007). Reliability-based Structural Design,

Spinger.

(6) Das, N.G. (1991). Statistical Methods in Commerce, Accountancy & Economics (Part -

I), M. Das & Co.

(7) Ghanem, R.G. and Spanos, P.D. (1991). Stochastic Finite Elements: A Spectral

Approach, Springer-Verlag

(8) Halder, A. (2006). Recent developments in Reliability-Based Civil Engineering, World

Scientific

(9) Hurtado, J.E. (2004). Structural Reliability: Statistical Learning Perspectives, Spinger

(10) Lipschutz, S. And Schiller, J. (2009). Introduction to Probability and Statistics, Tata

McGraw-Hill.

(11) Melchers, R.E. (1999). Structural Reliability Analysis and Prediction, John Willey &

Sons.

Bibliography

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(12) Phoon, K.K. (2008). Reliability-Based Design in Geotechnical Engineering:

Computations and Application, Taylor & Francis.

(13) Ross, S.M. (2011). Stochastic Processes, Second Edition, Willey-India.

(14) Straub, D. (2010). Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems, CRC Press

(15) Waarts, P.H. (2000). Structural Reliability using Finite Element Method, Delft

University Press.

Journals and Conference (for additional reading)

(1) Rackwitz, N. and Fiessler, B. (1978). “Structural Reliability Under Combined Random

Load Sequence”, Computers and Structures, Vol. 9, pp. 489-494

(2) Chikkodi, P. and Ranganathan, R. (1988). “Partial Safety Factor for RCC Design”,

international Journal of Structures, Vol. 8, pp. 127-149

(3) Fiessler, B., Neuman, H.J. and Rackwitz, R. (1979). “Quadratic Limit State in Structural

Reliability”, Journal of Engg. Mechanis, ASCE, Vol. 100, pp. 661-676

(4) Breitung, K. (1984). “Asymptotic Approximation for Multinormal Integral”, Journal of

Engg. Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 110, pp. 357-366

(5) Tvedt, L. (1987). “Distribution of Quadratic Form in National Space Application to

Structural Realiability”, Journal of Engg. Mechanics, ASCE, pp. 1183-1197

(6) Melcher, R.E. (1989). “Importance Sampling in Structural System”, Structural Safety,

Vol. 6, pp. 3-10

(7) Melcher, R.E. (1990). “Search Based Importance Sampling”, Structural Safety, Vol. 9,

pp. 117-128

(8) Bucher, C.G. and Bourgand, U. (1990). “A Fast and Efficient Response Surface

Approach for Structural Reliability”, Structural Safety, Vol. 7, pp. 57-66

(9) Cornell, C.A. (1967). “Bounds on the Reliability of Structural System”, Journal of Struct.

Div. ASCE, Vol. 93, ST-1, pp. 171-200

(10) Bucher, C.G. (1988). “Adaptive Sampling: An Iterative Fast Monte Carlo Procedure”,

Structural Safety, Vol. 5, pp. 119-126

(11) Cai, G.Q. and Elishakoff, I. (1994). “Refined Second-Order Reliability Analysis”,

Structural Safety, Vol. 14, pp. 267-276

(12) Chowdhury, M.R., Wang, D. and Halder, A. (1998). “Reliability Assessment of Pile-

supported Structural Systems”, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 120, pp.

80-88

(13) Faravelli, L. (1989). “Response Surface Approach for Reliability Analysis”, Journal of

Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 115, pp. 2763-2781

(14) Gao, L. and Haldar, A. (1995). “Safety Evaluation of Frames with PR Connectios”,

Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 121, pp. 1101-1109

(15) Hohenbichler, M. and Rackwitz, R. (1983). “First-Order Concepts in System

Reliability”, Structural Safety, Vol. 1, pp. 177-188

(16) Hohenbichler, M., Gollwitzer, S., Kruse, W. and Rackwitz, R. (1987). “New Light on

First and Second Order Reliability Methods”, Structural Safety, Vol. 4, pp. 267-284

(17) Liu, P.L. and Der Kiureghian, A. (1986). “Multivariate Distribution Models with

Prescribed Marginals and Covarience”, Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 1,

pp. 105-112

Bibliography

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(18) Mahadevan, S. and Dey, A. (1997). “Adaptive Monte Carlo Simulation for Time-

Dependent Reliability Analysis”, AIAA Journal, Vol. 35, pp. 321-326

(19) Mahadevan, S. and Haldar, A. (1991a). “Practical Random Field Discretization in

stochastic Finite Element Analysis”, Structural Safety, Vol. 9, pp. 283-304

(20) Mahadevan, S. and Halder, A. (1991b). “Stochastic FEM-based Validation of LRFD”,

Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 117, pp. 1393-1412

(21) Mahadevan, S. and Mehta, S. (1993). “Dynamic Reliability of Large Frames”,

Computers and Structures, Vol. 47, pp. 57-67

(22) Rajashekhar, M.R. and Ellingwood, B.R. (1993). “A New Look at The Response

Surface Approach for Reliability Analysis”, Structural Safety, Vol. 12, pp. 205-220

(23) Schiller, G. and Stix, R.A. (1987). “A Critical Appraisal of Methods to Determine

Failure Probabilities”, Structural Safety, Vol. 4, pp. 193-309

(24) Yao, Th.H.J. and Wen, Y.K. “Response Surface Method for Time-Variant Reliability

Anlysis”, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 122(2), pp. 193-201

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