Due to the existing of various kinds of uncertainties, predicting structural performance is always a great challenge in practical applications. The reliability of structure under the probabilistic uncertainty has been well studied in the past decade. However, the randomness is not the only attribute of reality. This paper attempts to investigate approach for the structural reliability analysis ...

Passenger aircraft structural design is based on a safety factor of 1.5, and this safety factor alone is equivalent to a probability of failure of between 10 and 10. Yet airliners are much safer, with crashes due to structural failure being extremely rare based on accident records. The probability of structural failure of transport aircraft is of the order of 10 per flight segment. This paper l...

background: if you want to start a long journey towards patient safety, you should create a good culture of patient safety among employees alongside structural interventions. the first step in doing so is the assessment of current culture in the organization using different tools. one of the most commonly used instruments of measuring patient safety culture is hospital survey of patient safety ...