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Medium: journal article
Language(s): English
Published in: Structural Engineering International, , n. 2, v. 16
Page(s): 124-128
DOI: 10.2749/101686606777962611
Abstract:

A system is robust if it can withstand arbitrary damage. There are many practical ways to design in robustness but there is no satisfactory measure of robustness. Reliability theory is a useful tool for examining the probability of failure for a pre-defined type of loading, however low probability-high consequence events may be missed. Whilst it is not easy to put forward a unified theory of robustness, one insight into the lack of robustness is gained by identifying how a system is vulnerable. If a system is vulnerable in any one way then it is not robust. Like robustness, vulnerability has been defined differently in different contexts.

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