Lecture 05.

27. September 2021, 12.15 Landmålerhallen

Chapter 3 - First Order Reliability Method (FORM)

Prepare:

• Compendium: Read Chapter 3.

Your learning objective for this first reading is:

• You understand how a reliability problem with two variables can be represented in a 3 dimensional diagram (like the one in Figure 3.1 (left)).
• You capture the transformation from “x-space” to “u-space” ((like the one in Figure 3.1 left to right)
• You see that the alpha-values are direction cosinuses
• You identify the iteration procedere in the “Example: Non-linear Safety Margin”

Good to know:

• The lecture room is “Landmålerhallen”.

Recording:

The lecture will be automatically recorded. But better appear physically, when possible.

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