-A hybrid model of a probabilistic and non-probabilistic reliability theory is developed to predict the structural reliability when the probabilistic characteristics parameters of structural properties are imprecisely known. In this study, these parameters are described by appropriate ellipsoid. Interval of the structural reliability will be sought, i.e. estimating the worst possible reliabilit...

This paper aims to propose a bootstrap method for characterizing the effect of uncertainty in shear strength parameters on slope reliability. The procedure for a traditional slope reliability analysis with fixed distributions of shear strength parameters is presented first. Then, the variations of the mean and standard deviation of shear strength parameters and the Akaike Information Criterion ...

conclusions zebris movement analysis system is a highly reliable instrument for the measurement of gait parameters at different speeds in healthy athletes and those after acl reconstruction surgery. this implies its use in the assessment and treatment process of gait deficits in such a clinically important population. background reconstruction surgery is one of the treatment methods after an an...

The transmission rate, delivery reliability and network lifetime are three fundamental but conflicting design objectives in energy-constrained wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we address the optimal rate-reliability-lifetime tradeoff with link capacity constraint, reliability constraint and energy constraint. By introducing the weight parameters, we combine the objectives at rate, relia...

One of the objectives of reliability sensitivity analysis is to study the influence of probabilistic model parameters onto the reliability of a given structural system. In this context, the system parameters involved in the sensitivity analysis are modeled by a random vector whose joint probability distribution is explicitly known and dependents on a certain number of parameters. The effect of ...

Software reliability is considered as a quantifiable metric, which is defined as the probability of a software to operate without failure for a specified period of time in a specific environment. Various software reliability growth models have been proposed to predict the reliability of a software. These models help vendors to predict the behaviour of the software before shipment. The reliabili...