Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART 1. QUALITATIVE METHODS FOR EVALUATING THE RELIABILITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING STRUCTURES; Introduction to Part 1; Chapter 1. Methods for System Analysis and Failure Analysis; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Structural analysis; 1.2.1. The sub-systems; 1.2.2. Environments; 1.2.3. Bounding the analysis; 1.2.4. Scales of a study; 1.3. Functional analysis; 1.3.1. Principles of functional analysis; 1.3.2. External functional analysis; 1.3.3. Internal functional analysis; 1.4. Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA).;This book provides answers to the following problems: how to identify the most probable critical failures; how to describe and use data-concerning materials that are either heterogeneous, time-variant, or space-variant; how to quantify the reliability and lifetime of a system; how to use feedback information to actualize reliability results; and how to optimize an inspection politic or a maintenance strategy. Numerous authors from public research centers and firms propose a synthesis of methods, both new and well-known, and offer numerous examples concerning dams, geotechnical study, and struc.