Uncertainty, Reliability and Decision-making

3 Credits.

This course covers the essentials of probability and statistics with an emphasis on their use for reliability, risk, and decision making for civil and systems engineering applications. Topics include the basics of probability theory (random variables, moments, single and multi-variate distribution functions), an introduction to occurrence probabilities and extreme value statistics and their use in assessing risk of civil infrastructure systems, and introductory concepts in structural reliability and reliability-based design.