TY - GEN
T1 - Simulation as an alternative to codified risk-based engineering design
AU - Marek, P.
AU - Haldar, A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2003 IEEE.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - The engineering profession has accepted the risk-based design in the form of Load and Resistance Factors design (LRFD) concept. However, a large number of practicing engineers do not use it in everyday design. Lack of education may be a reason for this avoidance. Another major complaint is that the current LRFD-based codified approach cannot estimate the reliability of real structures. Simulation could be an attractive alternative considering the recent significant improvement in computational power. However, the question remains whether the simulation-based design concept is mature enough to be considered as an alternative to the currently available codified approach. An international community of scholars, scientists, practicing engineers, and students met in a colloquium in the summer of 2002 in Prague, Czech Republic, to evaluate the role of simulation in engineering design. Their comments, observations, and recommendations are summarized here to help generate more interest on the subject.
AB - The engineering profession has accepted the risk-based design in the form of Load and Resistance Factors design (LRFD) concept. However, a large number of practicing engineers do not use it in everyday design. Lack of education may be a reason for this avoidance. Another major complaint is that the current LRFD-based codified approach cannot estimate the reliability of real structures. Simulation could be an attractive alternative considering the recent significant improvement in computational power. However, the question remains whether the simulation-based design concept is mature enough to be considered as an alternative to the currently available codified approach. An international community of scholars, scientists, practicing engineers, and students met in a colloquium in the summer of 2002 in Prague, Czech Republic, to evaluate the role of simulation in engineering design. Their comments, observations, and recommendations are summarized here to help generate more interest on the subject.
KW - Civil engineering
KW - Computational modeling
KW - Design engineering
KW - Engineering profession
KW - Guidelines
KW - Power engineering and energy
KW - Power engineering computing
KW - Process design
KW - Reliability engineering
KW - Uncertainty
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U2 - 10.1109/ISUMA.2003.1236166
DO - 10.1109/ISUMA.2003.1236166
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84944811081
T3 - 4th International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, ISUMA 2003
SP - 222
EP - 227
BT - 4th International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, ISUMA 2003
A2 - Attoh-Okine, Nii O.
A2 - Ayyub, Bilal M.
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 4th International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, ISUMA 2003
Y2 - 21 September 2003 through 24 September 2003
ER -