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. 2015 Jul 24;44:222–233. doi: 10.1007/s10439-015-1393-5

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Structural reliability analysis: the risk of failure increases as the distribution of expected loads increasingly overlaps the distribution of the expected ultimate load of the structure (resistance). The load measure need not be a pressure or force, but rather some generalized measure of the duress under which the structure has been placed.