Fuzzy Randomness Uncertainty in Civil Engineering Vol II

Encyclopaedia of Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis in Civil Engineering covers study of uncertainty modeling and analysis in civil engineering. Uncertainty has been of concern to engineers, managers and scientists for many centuries. The text provides a coherent, overall concept for taking account of uncertainty in the analysis, the safety assessment, and the design of structures.

For simultaneously considering stochastic and non-stochastic uncertainty the superordinate uncertainty model fuzzy randomness, which contains real valued random variables as well as fuzzy variables as special cases, is presented. For this purpose, basic mathematical knowledge concerning the fuzzy set theory and the theory of fuzzy random variables is imparted. It comprises the appropriate quantification of uncertain structural parameters, the fuzzy and fuzzy probabilistic structural analysis, the fuzzy probabilistic safety assessment, and the fuzzy cluster structural design. The volume “Fuzzy Randomness Uncertainty in Civil Engineering” is divided into nine chapters.