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COURSE INFORMATION

Course Code	Course Title	L+P Hour	Semester	ECTS
INS 589	STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY	3 + 0	1st Semester	7,5

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Level	Master's Degree
Course Type	Elective
Course Objective	To give information about importance of probability and statistics at structural design and to provide information about fundamental principles of reliability analysis of structural systems and reliability based structural design.
Course Content	Introduction to Risk and Reliability, Fundementals of Probability and Statistics, Probability Distributions, Definition of Seismic Hazard for Reliability Analysis, Basic Formulation of Reliability Problem, System Reliability, Probabilistic Calculations, Bayesian Approach for Estimation, Recent Developments in Reliability Based Seismic Design Codes, Civil Engineering Applications: Statistical Evaluation of Loads, Seismic Hazard Analysis, Earthquake Insurance.
Prerequisites	No the prerequisite of lesson.
Corequisite	No the corequisite of lesson.

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

1	Will be able to know the fundamentals of probability and statistics and the importance of these information at engineering design.
2	Will be able to know probability distributions of random variables and the use of which at reliability calculations
3	Will be able to formulate and solve the reliability problems.
4	Will be able to formulate and solve the system reliability problems
5	Will be able to know the use of reliability approach for structural design.

COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Work Load (Hour)
Course Duration (14 weeks/theoric+practical)	14	3	42
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	14	3	42
Assignments	2	30	60
Mid-terms	1	25	25
Final examination	1	26	26
Total Work Load ECTS Credit of the Course			195 7,5

COURSE DETAILS

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Course Details

Course Code	Course Title	L+P Hour	Course Code	Language Of Instruction	Course Semester	Mode of Delivery
INS 589	STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY	3 + 0	1	Turkish	2025-2026 Spring	Face to Face

Course Coordinator	E-Mail	Phone Number	Course Location	Attendance
Prof. Dr. ALİ HAYDAR KAYHAN	hkayhan@pau.edu.tr		Course location is not specified.	%

Goals		To give information about importance of probability and statistics at structural design and to provide information about fundamental principles of reliability analysis of structural systems and reliability based structural design.
Content		Introduction to Risk and Reliability, Fundementals of Probability and Statistics, Probability Distributions, Definition of Seismic Hazard for Reliability Analysis, Basic Formulation of Reliability Problem, System Reliability, Probabilistic Calculations, Bayesian Approach for Estimation, Recent Developments in Reliability Based Seismic Design Codes, Civil Engineering Applications: Statistical Evaluation of Loads, Seismic Hazard Analysis, Earthquake Insurance.

Topics

Weeks	Topics
1	Tabular and graphical representation of samples
2	Introduction to random variables and distribution parameters
3	Discrete Random Distributions
4	Continuous Random distributions
5	Functions of Random Variables
6	Formulation of reliability problems
7	Solution methods of reliability problems
8	Sampling methods
9	Monte-Carlo Simulation
10	Stochastic Finite element Methods
11	Reliability of Structural Systems
12	Civil engineering examples-1
13	Civil engineering examples-2
14	Final examination

Materials

Materials are not specified.

Resources

Resources	Resources Language
Reliability Based Structural Design, S.K. Choi, R.V. Grandi, R.A. Canfield, Elsevier	English
Structural Reliability Methods, O. Ditlevsen, H.O: Madsen, Wiley	English

Course Assessment

Assesment Methods	Percentage (%)	Assesment Methods Title
Final Exam	50	Final Exam
Midterm Exam	50	Midterm Exam

L+P: Lecture and Practice
PQ: Program Learning Outcomes
LO: Course Learning Outcomes

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