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Memorial Tributes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Memorial Tributes

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Safety Factors and Reliability: Friends or Foes?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Safety Factors and Reliability: Friends or Foes?

Have you ever wondered where the safety factors come from? Why is it that deterministic analysis has reached a very sophisticated level, but in the end empirical factors are still needed? Is there a way to select them, rather than assigning them arbitrarily as is often done? This book clearly shows that safety factors are closely related with the reliability of structures, giving yet another demonstration of Albert Einstein's maxim that "It is incomprehensible that Nature is comprehensible". The book shows that the safety factors are much more comprehensible if they are seen in a probabilistic context. Several definitions of the safety factors are given, analytical results on insightful numb...

A Biographical Dictionary of People in Engineering
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

A Biographical Dictionary of People in Engineering

This book lists the work and contributions of thousands of people from many countries, representing numerous fields of endeavor, over many centuries. This work contains the necrologies (names, dates, and a brief biography) up to the year 2000 of people involved in engineering and invention literature. This book is a must for reference collections and those in the media who cover the field of engineering advancement.

Probabilistic Mechanics of Quasibrittle Structures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Probabilistic Mechanics of Quasibrittle Structures

This book presents an experimentally validated probabilistic strength theory of structures made of concrete, composites, ceramics and other quasibrittle materials.

The History of the Theory of Structures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1242

The History of the Theory of Structures

Zehn Jahre nach der 1. Auflage in englischer Sprache legt der Autor sein Buch The History of the Theory of Structures in wesentlich erweiterter Form vor, nunmehr mit dem Untertitel Searching for Equilibrium. Mit dem vorliegenden Buch lädt der Verfasser seine Leser zur Suche nach dem Gleichgewicht von Tragwerken auf Zeitreisen ein. Die Zeitreisen setzen mit der Entstehung der Statik und Festigkeitslehre eines Leonardo und Galilei ein und erreichen ihren ersten Höhepunkt mit den baustatischen Theorien über den Balken, Erddruck und das Gewölbe von Coulomb am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts. Im folgenden Jahrhundert formiert sich die Baustatik mit Navier, Culmann, Maxwell, Rankine, Mohr, Castiglia...

An Idiot’s Fugitive Essays on Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 657

An Idiot’s Fugitive Essays on Science

When, after the agreeable fatigues of solicitation, Mrs Millamant set out a long bill of conditions subject to which she might by degrees dwindle into a wife, Mirabell offered in return the condition that he might not thereby be beyond measure enlarged into a husband. With age and experience in research come the twin dangers of dwindling into a philosopher of science while being enlarged into a dotard. The philosophy of science, I believe, should not be the preserve of senile scientists and of teachers of philosophy who have themselves never so much as understood the contents of a textbook of theoretical physics, let alone done a bit of mathematical research or even enjoyed the confidence of...

Reliability-based Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 596

Reliability-based Design

S.S. Rao presents the principles of reliability-based engineering and design in a simple and straight-forward approach. He addresses the design of mechanical components and systems; Monte Carlo simulation; reliability-based optimum design; strength-based reliability and interface theory; reliability testing; time-dependent reliability of components and systems; failure modes, event tree and fault tree analysis; quality control and reliability; modeling of geometry; weakest-link and fail-safe systems; maintainability and availability; extremal distributions; random variables and probability distributions; functions of random variables; and basic probability theory. With 254 illustrations and an index.

Guide to the Archival Materials of the German-speaking Emigration to the United States After 1933
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 874
Progress in Fatigue and Fracture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Progress in Fatigue and Fracture

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