Reliability Evaluation of Engineering Systems

This volume is dedicated to TRANSMIT (Training Research and Applications Network to Support the Mitigation of Ionospheric Threats). It provided a coordinated program of academic and industrial training, focused on atmospheric phenomena that can significantly impair a wide range of systems and applications that are at the core of several activities embedded in our daily life.

Editors: Fiondella, Lance, Puliafito, Antonio (Eds.)
Presents the latest key research into the performance and reliability aspects of dependable fault-tolerant systems
Identifies the current challenges associated with ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of systems, with a special focus on their dynamic behaviors and dependencies
Includes contributions from Prof. Kishor S. Trivedi's former PhD students, many of whom are internationally recognized experts, to honor him on the occasion of his 70th birthday

This book presents the proceedings of an International Conference on Advances in Engineering Structures, Mechanics & Construction, held in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, May 14-17, 2006. The contents include contains the texts of all three plenary presentations and all seventy-three technical papers by more than 153 authors, presenting the latest advances in engineering structures, mechanics and construction research and practice.

This bookcontains papers covering a wide range of studies on life-cycle performance analysis, design, maintenance, monitoring, management, and cost of civil infrastructure systems. Topics include reliability and optimization as design basis tools, monitoring systems, life-cycle cost analysis and management, bridge management systems, and quality control acceptance criteria.

by William A. Stimson (Author)