Abstract
The major purpose of this paper is to formulate the structural reliability problem in the context and objectives of the structural designer. In this formulation, the reliability of the structural system is represented in network form, allowing the designer to control global behavior of the system as a whole through the selection of a critical pathway through this network. This approach differs from that of a member-by-member local optimization scheme in that the selected pathway, representing a particular failure mode, is maximized, within certain bounds, relative to other modes. This type of approach to designing for global behavior is fundamentally old; yet, the reliability computations presented herein are new. Recent developments in object-oriented programming languages provide opportunities for effective computational modeling of these networks.
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