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A Methodology for Assessing the Reliability of TLP Tethers Under Maximum and Minimum Lifetime Loads
The Tension Leg Platform (TLP) is a large, floating offshore platform for producing oil and gas in deep water. The TLP is moored to the ocean floor by vertical tethers. Loads in the tethers...

Stochastic Behavior of Concrete Arch Dam-Reservoir Fluid-Foundation Systems in Nonstationary Random Vibration
The behavior of elastic arch dam reservoir fluid system subjected to ground acceleration excitations has been studied extensively by Chopra and his colleagues. In their studies, the excitations...

Safety Assessment of an Existing Concrete Gravity Dam
The safety and/or probability of failure of an existing 146 m high concrete gravity dam subjected to normal static and dynamic loads is evaluated. Three modes of failure were considered,...

Global Damage Indices and Nonlinear Structural Response
Damage indices based on equivalent linear parameters have been proposed for the analysis of global seismic damage. The analysis of shaking table experiments and strong motion records has...

Automated Damage-Controlled Design of RC Buildings
This paper presents an automated damage-controlled design method, which aims for uniform damage distribution throughout the entire building frame while respecting the strong-column weak-beam...

Simulation of Seismic Damage of RC Structures in Eastern US
A normalized index for evaluation of structural damage was developed based on the relation of demand and capacity. The proposed formulation combines two sources of damage: permanent deformation...

Aseismic Reliability of a Strengthened R.C. Single Story Industrial Building
Based on results of seismic hazard analysis for a considered site, seismic reliability of a strengthened RC single-story industrial building against collapse has been evaluated. Inelastic...

Durability Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures
This paper attempts to provide a fundamental basis for estimating the remaining life of reinforced concrete structure. In the damage assessment of reinforced concrete structure, some quantity...

Damage Evolution in Reinforced Concrete Members Under Cyclic Loading
The paper presents a new damage indicator D, valid for reinforced concrete sections under cyclic loading. D_Q, based on sectionally absorbed energies,...

On the Failure Probabilities of R/C Chimneys
A procedure to estimate failure probabilities of structural systems such as reinforced concrete (R/C) chimneys under severe wind loading which allows for considering realistic correlation...

A New Formulation for Structural Reliability of Parallel Systems
Presented is a realistic method to calculate the reliability of a parallel structural system. The present theory considers that each element of a parallel system may have different reliability...

Nonlinear Dynamic Response of Industrial R/C Chimneys
Gust response factors (GRF) based on nonlinear dynamic analysis including the P? effect are calculated. All sample structures analyzed show clearly that, for wind speeds exceeding the...

Durability and Damage Tolerance Evaluations of Jet Transport Structures
Many design considerations are involved in ensuring structural integrity of Boeing jet transports, which have common design features validated by extensive analyses, tests, and service...

Seismic Reliability of Non-Linear Structures with Stochastic Parameters by Directional Simulation
The application of improved Monte Carlo method by Directional Simulation and Importance Sampling is presented with reference to the assessment of seismic fragility of reinforced concrete...

Safety Evaluation of a Tall Building
This paper uses the extended Kalman filter to perform the system identification of a tall building with the aid of recorded accelerograms obtained from strong-motion seismographs. The...

Statistical Fatigue Properties of Carbon Steels for Machine Structural Use Based on JSMS Database on Fatigue Strength of Metallic Materials
A database on the fatigue strength of metallic materials was compiled by collecting the experimental fatigue data of the last 20 years in Japan on a nationwide scale as a joint project...

Distribution of Variance of Fatigue Lives of Ferrous Metals by the Analysis of Fatigue Strength Database
The purpose of this study is to determine the distribution characteristics of variance of fatigue lives of carbon and alloy steels, especially from the viewpoint of their dependence on...

Fatigue Reliability of Prestressed Concrete Bridges
Experimental studies indicate that fatigue is a random phenomenon. Therefore, the approach is based on probabilistic methods. The fatigue life of the prestressed concrete girder is estimated...

The Estimation of Allowable Strength Based on Fatigue Reliability of Welded Part and Base Metal of Rail in Korea
In the allowable stress design, the safety of structures have been ensured by safety factor based on static strength. Under dynamic loading condition, the allowable stress based on allowable...

Utility of Reliability Index for Structural Design
Relations between design results, such as configurations, and the reliability indices, in accordance with the Advanced First Order Second Moment (AFOSM) method, are numerically investigated...

 

 

 

 

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