pystra.ddo.lqi_target_reliability#

lqi_target_reliability(k1, variability='medium')[source]#

Return an LQI target reliability for a safety cost ratio.

Parameters:
  • k1 (float) – Safety cost ratio. Medium-variability classes follow the ranges in Fischer, Barnardo, and Faber (2012), Table 3.

  • variability (str) – Approximate consequence/resistance variability adjustment. The source table reports that high variability gives failure probabilities about five times larger and low variability about two times smaller than the medium case.

Return type:

LQITarget