Engineering and Design INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY AND RELIABILITY METHODS FOR USE IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING

Engineering and Design INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY AND RELIABILITY METHODS FOR USE IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING

Reliability of Shallow Foundations Designed Against Bearing Failure Using LRFD

There is a growing interest world-wide in the development of a rational reliability-based geotechnical design code. The reason for this interest is a least two-fold; first of all, geotechnical engineers face uncertainties which are commonly significantly larger than those faced in other fields of engineering and so there is a need to properly characterize and deal with this uncertainty. Secondl...

Probabilistic design: The future of rock engineering

A brief background to the development of the rock engineering design process is given, showing that since the development of the science of mathematics, deterministic methods have been used to perform various calculations. The variability of rock properties and support characteristics have always been known. However, they were not explicitly used in design but compensated for by the use of a sa...

Subset Simulation Method for Rare Event Estimation: An Introduction

This entry provides a detailed introductory description of Subset Simulation, an advanced stochastic simulation method for estimation of small probabilities of rare failure events. A simple and intuitive derivation of the method is given along with the discussion on its implementation. The method is illustrated with several easy-to-understand examples. The reader is assumed to be familiar only ...

Evaluation of Human Errors among Nurses Using Predictive Analysis of Cognitive Errors and Human Event Analysis Techniques: Case study of the Specific Responsibilities of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Introduction: Considering the accreditation of international standards of hospitals and the necessity to improve the safety and quality of patients’ care, this study aimed at evaluating reliability among nurses using predictive analysis of cognitive errors and human event analysis techniques. Material and Methods: The analysis of nurses̓ tasks was done by HTA method. Then, the types of errors a...