Category Archives: Risk & Reliability

CV8311 F24 Lecture 3 Probabilistic Risk Analysis

After the introduction of the probability concept and the rules of probability calculation, I jumped to the applications. Probabilistic Risk Analysis (PRA) is a subject that uses probability and only probability. It does not even need the notions of random … Continue reading

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Asset Management Hybinar No. 2

Wastewater Asset Management – Canadian’s Experience Speaker: Fayi Zhou, PhD, PMP, P.Eng., Manager, Drainage Design, EPCOR Utilities, Edmonton Time & Date: 14:10-15:30, Friday, October 14, 2022 Location: CUI 219 (44 Gerrard Street East) – Map Zoom Link: https://ryerson.zoom.us/j/4612874120 For in-person … Continue reading

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Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Infrastructure Asset Management

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a postdoctoral fellow (PDF) position within the Risk-Informed Lifecycle Infrastructure Engineering (RILCIE) research group led by Prof. Arnold Yuan at the Department of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University. We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly … Continue reading

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Why are structural grads uninterested in Risk and Reliability?

Some of the materials were first drafted in my LinedIn early on.  But the character limit of LinkedIn makes it only a place to show opinion and not a full argument.  Here is my relatively complete argument: CV8311 Risk and … Continue reading

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Infrastructure Weekly Digest, 20130422

This weekly digest focuses on budget allocation for natural disaster risk management. Budget allocation for natural disaster risk management mainly deals with allocation of disaster mitigation funds (which are usually public funds) to different disaster-prone regions for different mitigation strategies.  … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Failure of Risk Management

Douglas W. Hubbard, The failure of risk management: why it’s broken and how to fix it. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2009.  Ryerson Library Call Number:  HD61 .H76 2009, 7th Floor. In June 2012 I attended for the first time the annual … Continue reading

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