1. Mayer, H.: Die Sicherheit der Bauwerke and Ihre Berechnung nach Grenzkräften anstatt nach Zulässigen Spannungen, Springer, Berlin, 1926 (in German)(see also paper by Tichy, M., Max Mayer-Begründer der Berechnungsmethode nach Grenzzuständen, Technishe Mechanik, Magdeburg, Federal Republic of Germany, 1990, to appear).
2. Khozialov, N. F.: Safety Factors, Building Ind., Vol. 10, 1929, 840–844 (in Russian).
3. Streletskyi, N.S.: Statistical Basis of the Safety Factor of Structures, “Stroyizdat” Publishing House, Moscow, 1947 (in Russian).
4. Rzhanitsyn, A. R.: Design of Constructions with Materials’ Plastic Properties Taken into Account, Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel’stvo Literatury Po Stroitel’stvu i Arkhitekture, Moscow, 1954, (second edition), Chapter 14 (in Russian). (see also a French translation: A R. Rjanitsyn: Calcul à la rupture et plasticite des constructions, Eyrolles, Paris, 1959 ).
5. Rzhanitsyn, A. R.: Theory of Reliability Design of Civil Engineering Structures, “Stroyizdat” Publishing House, Moscow, 1978 (in Russian).