Expert Systems in Structural Safety Assessment -

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Résumé :
The volume combines tutorials covering basic elements of expert (or knowledge based) systems and practical building of the expert systems to be applied in structural engineering, with the lecture dealing with the various particular application sub-domains like corrosion, stress analysis, high temperature and other pressurized components, use of hypertext, etc. The book thus leads the reader from fundamentals of the theory to the very practice, offering him an opportunity to learn both Iwhat/I contribution can the expert system technology bring to the structural safety assessment and Ihow/I it should be practically implemented. The book is primarily designed for engineers interested in expert systems, but readers from other fields will surely find there a useful summary of theoretical background and practical experience gathered by introducing expert systems into engineering practice.

Sommaire:
Introductory Part.- Structural Safety and Integrity Assessment and Use of Expert Systems at MPA Stuttgart.- Structural Safety Assessment as a Collective Cognitive Process.- Fundamentals of Expert Systems.- Knowledge Representation and Inference in Knowledge Based Systems (Expert Systems).- A Rule Backward Chainer for Knowledge Based Systems (Expert Systems).- An Industrial 1st Generation KBS (Expert System): DELTA-CATS.- Specific Issues Relevant for Applications of Expert Systems in Structural Engineering.- Treatment of Uncertainty, Evidence and Belief.- Uncertainty in KBS (expert systems).- Evidence and Belief in Expert Systems (Dempster-Shafer: A simplified view).- RUM (Reasoning with Uncertainty Module) and RUMRUNNER (RUM's Run Time System).- Uncertainty Representation in Knowledge Based Systems.- Decision Making.- Evaluation and Selection of Alternatives Considering Multiple Criteria.- Practical Building of Expert Systems for Structural Safety and Integrity Assessment.- Application of Expert Systems to Structural Engineering.- Practical Building of Expert Systems for Material Selection and Corrosion Problems.- Applications.- Pressurized Components.- Developing Expert Systems for Structural Diagnostic and Reliability Assessment at JRC.- Development of an Expert System for Leak-Before-Break Analysis.- ARTIC: A Knowledge Engineering Approach to Damage Assessment of High Temperature Pressurized Components.- ESR Project: Expert Systems Aided Asessement and Management of Remaining Life of Pressurized High Temperature Components.- Stress Analysis.- Learning Expert Systems in Numerical Analysis of Structures.- Non-Destructive Examination.- Expert Systems within the German HDR-Programme for the Assessment of the Integrity of Nuclear Components -Correlation of NDT-Resultswith Acoustic Emission Measurements and Fracture Mechanics Evaluations.- Corrosion.- On the Use of Expert Systems to Handle Corrosion Knowledge.- AI Based Corrosion Risk Analysis in Oil Refinery Operation.- Use of Hypertext for Corrosion Analysis.- Knowledge Engineering Issues.- Reasoning about Data: Combination of Multiple and non-Homogeneous Sources of Engineering Knowledge.- Experience in Inference Machine Building and a Case Study.- Use of Inquiry in Acquisition of Engineering Knowledge for Expert Systems Applied in the Structural Safety Assessment.- Connectionism versus GOFAI: A Brief Critical Analysis.