Sergio E. Serrano: Engineering uncertainty and risk analysis:balanced approach to probability, statistics, stochastic modeling, and stochastic differential equations

摘要

Uncertainty and risk analyses are becoming more and more important in engineering sciences due to increasing climatic variation and other types of natural hazards. On average, every year infrastructure damages caused by earthquakes, floods, typhoons and other catastrophic events induce costs corresponding to hundreds of billions of dollars besides thousands of lives lost. Consequently, uncertainty and risk analyses are some of the most important subjects for engineers. In line with this, the author, Prof. Sergio E. Serrano, Temple University, has issued a second, completely revised text book on the subject. The book is a comprehensive collection of stochastic and statistical engineering techniques with uncertainty and risk analyses that are applicable in a broad range of problems. The focus is clearly on engineering applications rather than on theoretical derivation. Even rather advanced techniques involving nonlinear differential equations are solved analytically in supplied codes and presented with illustrative examples. The strong and very useful aspect of this text book is that it contains a multitude of solved examples as well as problems with answers. Consequently, the potential reader of this book might be engineering students as well as professional engineers.