Risk and Reliability Analysis: A Handbook for Civil and Environmental Engineers

A presentation of key concepts of risk and reliability that apply to a wide array of problems in civil and environmental engineering. The authors begin with an overview of the art of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and then explain the fundamentals of probability that will be applied throughout the book. In the second part of the book, the authors discuss various techniques used in probability distributions and parameter estimation. A third section of the book considers different aspects of uncertainty analysis, especially risk analysis and risk management, providing instructive examples. The final group of chapters addresses reliability analysis and design, focusing particularly on the important area of water distribution networks. (Vijay P. Singh, Ph.D., P.E., is a professor of water engineering at Texas A&M University and editor of ASCE’s Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. Sharad K. Jain, Ph.D., is a scientist at the National Institute of Hydrology in Roorkee, India. Aditya Tyagi, Ph.D., P.E., is a water resources engineer for CH2M Hill in Austin, Texas.)