Given the situation where the failure of a structure is given according to the following condition: DeadLoad + LiveLoad is greater than the Resistance If the variables are acting independently from each other, and each one is normally distributed as follows: DeadLoad ~ N(100,25), LiveLoad ~ N(150,50) and Resistance - N(300,20). Compute the failure probability of the structure.
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
![Given the situation where the failure of a structure is given according to the following
condition:
DeadLoad + LiveLoad is greater than the Resistance
If the variables are acting independently from each other, and each one is normally distributed
as follows:
DeadLoad ~ N(100,25),
LiveLoad ~ N(150,50) and
Resistance ~
N(300,20).
Compute the failure probability of the structure.](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Fa8324dff-672c-454a-85ac-f157b20edba6%2Fdbc2e22c-aeca-4deb-8e8a-cea0c366f4bb%2Ftqq1i3s_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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