Harmonizing structural safety levels with life- quality objectives

Life-quality objectives are identified as an essential element in design decision making. Of particular concern is the question of optimal safety levels that are consistent with reasonable expectat...

[1]  Marc A. Maes,et al.  Risk Analysis of Running a Deepwater Production Test From a Dynamically Positioned Vessel in the North-Atlantic , 2003 .

[2]  Bryan C. Conley,et al.  The Value of Human Life in the Demand for Safety: Extension and Reply , 1976 .

[3]  Y. K. Wen,et al.  Minimum Life-Cycle Cost Structural Design Against Natural Hazards , 2000 .

[4]  W. Viscusi.  Valuing health care: Discounting health effects for medical decisions , 1995 .

[5]  R. Rackwitz.  Reliability analysis—a review and some perspectives , 2001 .

[6]  Maurice Lemaire,et al.  Applications of statistics and probability : civil engineering reliability and risk analysis : proceedings of the ICASP 7 Conference, Paris, France, 10-13 July 1995 , 1995 .

[7]  L. Eeckhoudt,et al.  Background Risks and the Value of a Statistical Life , 2001 .

[8]  D. Solomon,et al.  Applied Statistical Decision Theory. , 1961 .

[9]  Joseph S. Pliskin,et al.  Utility Functions for Life Years and Health Status , 1980, Oper. Res..

[10]  W. Arthur.  The economics of risks to life. , 1979, The American economic review.

[11]  Emilio Rosenblueth.  Towards Optimum Design Through Building Codes , 1976 .

[12]  Rüdiger Rackwitz,et al.  Optimization and risk acceptability based on the Life Quality Index , 2002 .

[13]  J. Skinner.  Variable Lifespan and the Intertemporal Elasticity of Consumption , 1985 .

[14]  Richard J. Zeckhauser,et al.  Survival versus Consumption , 1984 .

[15]  James G. MacGregor,et al.  Design criteria and load and resistance factors for the Confederation Bridge , 1997 .

[16]  Carl J. Turkstra,et al.  Theory of structural design decisions , 1970 .

[17]  Y. K. Wen,et al.  Reliability and performance-based design☆ , 2001 .

[18]  M. Yaari,et al.  Uncertain lifetime, life insurance, and the theory of the consumer , 1965 .

[19]  Tammy O. Tengs,et al.  Five-hundred life-saving interventions and their cost-effectiveness. , 1995, Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis.

[20]  Jatin Nathwani,et al.  Three Principles for Managing Risk in the Public Interest , 1995 .

[21]  Gabriel Gulis,et al.  Life expectancy as an indicator of environmental health , 2000, European Journal of Epidemiology.

[22]  D. Usher.  An Imputation to the Measure of Economic Growth for Changes in Life Expectancy , 1973 .