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CEN 449 - Reliability Analysis

Credits 3.00
Requirements: Prerequisite: MTH 211/213 Calculus III
Co-requisite: MTH 331 Probability OR CEN 428 Probability and Statistics for Civil Engineers OR Permission from instructor
The ideas and methods to quantify the reliability of structural systems through calculating their probability of failure. The concepts of uncertainty in the loads and the strength of structural members are introduced and simulation is used to propagate these uncertainties to quantities of interest that define failure.
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