Abstract
Reliability of a system will be evaluated through the safety margins those are expressed as the functions of basic random variables. Approximate failure probability for a specific mode is generally evaluated by the first two moments those are estimated by considering the distributions of constituent basic variables and correlation coefficients between them. They all are settled into a reliability index β.
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Terada, S. (1991). Skewness and Kurtosis of Safety Margin. In: Spanos, P.D., Brebbia, C.A. (eds) Computational Stochastic Mechanics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3692-1_4
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