1. Chapter 10 Structural Reliability: Weakest Link and Fail-Safe Systems

2. 10.1 Introduction

4. 10.2 Fundamental One Member- one Load Case 10.2.1 Probability of failure

6. 10.2.2 Reliability index

7. 10.2.3 Bound on the probability of failure

11. 10.3 Single Member Several Load Case 10.3.1 probability of failure

13. 10.3.2 Bounds on the probability of Failure

14. The upper bound on R 0

15. 10.4 Several Members- One load case (series system 10.4.1 Probability of Failure

17. 10.4.2 simple bounds on the probability of failure (10.30) (10.33)

20. 10.4.3 Ditlevsen bounds on the probability of failure

26. 10.5 several members-several loads case (series system 10.5.1 Probability of failure

28. 10.5.2 bounds on probility of failure

31. 10.5.3 Brittle material 10.6 Reliability Analysis of parallel system 10.6.1 Probability of Failure

34. 10.6.2 Simple bounds on the probility of failure

36. 10.6.3 Brittle material

43. 10.7 Elastic-Plastic Analysis of Structure 10.7.1 Probability of failurew in I th collapse mode

46. 10.7.2 over all probability of failure of the structure

57. 10.8 Structure with correlation of element strength 10.8.1 series system

58. 10.8.2 parallel systems