The primary purpose of this book is to introduce risk and reliability concept into structural design.A structure should be designed taking into account safety, reliability, and economy. Reliability is the probability of successful function, and risk is the potential for unwanted negative consequence of an event....

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are widely used for communications and sensor applications. Making SAW devices tunable would make them more flexible and expand their applications. In this work, a novel monolithically integrated tunable SAW (MITSAW) device is proposed, designed and analyzed....