background: renal failure is an important adverse effect of drug poisoning. determining the prevalence and etiology of this serious side effect could help us find appropriate strategies for the prevention of renal failure in most affected patients. objectives: the present study is aimed to identify drugs that induce renal failure and also to find the prevalence of renal failure in patients refe...

accurate calculation of reliability index is very important for the reliability analysis of structures. in some limit state functions with nonlinear characteristic and several local optimum design points, the computational reliability methods may not appropriately determine the failure probability, and iterative reliability approaches may be converged to local optimum design points. in this pap...

The topic of the paper is the probabilistic analysis of the ultimate limit state of a steel strut loaded by permanent and long-time single variation action. The failure probability misalignment according to the EN 1990 concept of a structure designed according to the EUROCODE 3 is analyzed here. In the stochastic model, material and geometrical characteristics of a hot-rolled steel cross-sectio...