Fuzzy randomness

Uncertainty in civil engineering and computational mechanics

Bernd Möller, Michael Beer

336 pages, parution le 09/03/2004

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The subject of the book is the comprehensive consideration of uncertainty in the numerical analysis, the safety assessment, and the design of structures. Stochastic as well as non-stochastic uncertainty is treated on the basis of the superordinated uncertainty model fuzzy randomness. This new uncertainty model contains the special cases of real valued random variables and fuzzy variables and permits to take account of both uncertainty characteristics simultaneously. The book introduces to the problem of uncertainty and provides a current survey of relevant uncertainty models and their application in civil engineering. The necessary, special mathematical basics of the fuzzy set theory and the theory of fuzzy random variables are explained in an engineering manner and illustrated by way of examples. Basic ideas and methods for appropriately quantifying uncertain structural parameters are presented and demonstrated by means of characteristic examples. For processing uncertainty in structural analysis, safety assessment, and structural design completely new algorithms are introduced and described in detail as fuzzy structural analysis, fuzzy probabilistic safety assessment, and fuzzy cluster design. The application of the new methods is demonstrated for selected examples from civil engineering, their essential advantages are emphasized. For the first time this represents a coherent, overall concept for considering uncertainty in civil engineering. The book in particular addresses to civil engineers and requires a university degree as well as basic knowledge in stochastics. But also for mechanical engineers, colleagues from applied mathematics, and other people who are interested in uncertainty problems the book represents a suitable introduction to the problem of uncertainty modeling and provides general solutions and algorithms, which may also be applied to problems from other fields beyond engineering.

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Abbreviations
Introduction
Mathematical Basics for the Formal Description of Uncertainty
Description of Uncertain Structural Parameters as Fuzzy Random Variables
Fuzzy and Fuzzy Stochastic Structural Analysis
Fuzzy Probabilistic Safety Assessment
Structural Design Based on Clustering
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Éditeur(s)	Springer
Auteur(s)	Bernd Möller, Michael Beer
Parution	09/03/2004
Nb. de pages	336
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	627g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9783540402947