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Optimization techniques are essential ingredients of reliability-oriented optimal designs of technical facilities. Although many technical aspects are not yet solved and the available spectrum of models and methods in structural reliability is still limited many practical problems can be solved. A special one-level optimization is proposed for general cost-benefit analysis and some technical aspects are discussed. However, focus is on some more critical issues, for example, “what is a reasonable replacement strategy for structural facilities?”, “how safe is safe enough?” and “how to discount losses of material, opportunity and human lives?”. An attempt has been made to give at least partial answers.
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Rackwitz, R. (2003). Risk Control and Optimization for Structural Facilities. In: Sachs, E.W., Tichatschke, R. (eds) System Modeling and Optimization XX. CSMO 2001. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 130. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35699-0_7
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