Researchers in
industry and academia are making important advances on various fronts, including
reliability-based design and modeling of uncertainty when data is limited.
Still, industry continues to lose billions of dollars each year because of
unexpected system failures. The Engineering Design Reliability Handbook is a
valuable addition to the reliability literature. The book presents an industrial
perspective of non-deterministic approaches and documented stories and
quantifies the benefits of these approaches. It considers the issue of modeling
uncertainty when data is scarce and provides a comparison of non-deterministic
approaches, both numerically and experimentally, in design problems.