The article Reliability-Based Service-Life Assessmentof

Chapter 3, Problem 89

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The article Reliability-Based Service-Life Assessmentof Aging Concrete Structures (J. Structural Engr.,1993: 16001621) suggests that a Poisson process can beused to represent the occurrence of structural loads overtime. Suppose the mean time between occurrences of loadsis .5 year.a. How many loads can be expected to occur during a2-year period?b. What is the probability that more than five loadsoccur during a 2-year period?c. How long must a time period be so that the probabilityof no loads occurring during that period is at most .1?

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