Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

This volume contains 28 papers by renowned international experts on the latest advances in structural reliability methods and applications, engineering risk ana

Performance-Based Optimization of Structures introduces a method to bridge the gap between structural optimization theory and its practical application to struc

Today’s biggest structural engineering challenge is to design better structures, and a key issue is the need to take an integrated approach which balances con

Computational optimization methods have matured over the last few years due to extensive research by applied mathematicians and engineers. These methods have be

Extensive numerical methods for computing design sensitivity are included in the text for practical application and software development. The numerical method a