Citation

Pham-Gia T, Turkkan N. Int. J. Reliab. Qual. Safety Eng. 1994; 1(4): 417-431.

Affiliation

Systems and Structures Reliability Research Group, Universit頤e Moncton, Moncton, Canada, E1A 3E9, Canada

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, World Scientific Publishing)

DOI

10.1142/S0218539394000295

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Both classical and Bayesian approaches are used in this article to estimate the median safety factor and the median coefficient of variation of the frequently used engineering stress-strength model, with lognormal distributions for both stress and strength. A numerical example on fire loads studies in civil engineering illustrates some of these results. A computer program, developed and tested by our group, is available upon request.