ABSTRACT
A significant advantage of reliability-based design (RBD) approaches is to facilitate and improve decision-making. While the attention in RBD has generally been focused on the format and calibration of design-checking equations, the basic premise of a reliability-based design is that the target of the design should achieve an acceptable level of reliability. With this premise in mind, designers and stakeholders can utilize a range of possible alternatives in order to achieve the desired reliability. The objective of this chapter is to present practical methods and information that can be used to this end.
