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A quarter of the century has elapsed since I gave my first course in structural reliability to graduate students at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Since

Based on material taught at the University of California, Berkeley, this textbook offers a modern, rigorous and comprehensive treatment of the methods of struct

Structural reliability has become a discipline of international interest, addressing issues such as the safety of buildings, bridges, towers and other structure