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

This volume is an outcome of the 11th IFIP WG7.5 working conference on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems in Canada. The conference focuses on s

Uncertainties play a dominant role in the design and optimization of structures and infrastructures. In optimum design of structural systems due to variations o

This book summarizes advances in a number of fundamental areas of optimization with application in engineering design. The selection of the 'best' or 'optimum'

We three editors of this volume are former Ph. D. students of Professor Mircea Cohn at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Donald Grierson obtained his Ph. D. d