Overview
- Critical survey of current and presentation of new risk concepts in engineering
- Mathematical scope spans from probabilistic to numerical problems
- Applications range from geo-engineering and structural mechanics to construction operation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
This volume addresses the issue of uncertainty in civil engineering from design to construction. Failures do occur in practice. Attributing them to a residual system risk or a faulty execution of the project does not properly cover the range of causes. A closer scrutiny of the adopted design, the engineering model, the data, the soil-construction-interaction and the model assumptions is required. Usually, the uncertainties in initial and boundary conditions are abundant. Current engineering practice often leaves these issues aside, despite the fact that new scientific tools have been developed in the past decades that allow a rational description of uncertainties of all kinds, from model uncertainty to data uncertainty. It is the aim of this volume to have a critical look at current engineering risk concepts in order to raise awareness of uncertainty in numerical computations, shortcomings of a strictly probabilistic safety concept, geotechnical models of failure mechanisms and their implications for construction management, execution, and the juristic question of responsibility. In addition, a number of the new procedures for modelling uncertainty are explained. The book is a result of a collaborate effort of mathematicians, engineers and construction managers who met regularly in a post graduate seminar at the University of Innsbruck during the past years.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Analyzing Uncertainty in Civil Engineering
Editors: Wolfgang Fellin, Heimo Lessmann, Michael Oberguggenberger, Robert Vieider
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b138177
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-22246-0Published: 08 October 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06078-6Published: 13 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-26847-5Published: 19 December 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 242
Topics: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics