CE 413 Reliability and Risk Analysis in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Fundamentals of probability theory; Probability distributions used in CE; Functions of random variables; Reliability analysis of high-reliability civil systems: (a) general formulation, (b) Monte Carlo simulation, and (c) approximate methods such as FOSM and FORM; Introduction to risk assessment; Visualization of statistical data with matplotlib and seaborn; Advanced Monte Carlo methods; Bayesian analysis.