The N-Year Maximum Mean Values and the Coefficients of Variation of Loads Subjected to Port and Offshore Structures
It is necessary to know mean values and coefficients of variation of loads in order to verify the safety of structures. In this paper, the N-year maximum mean values and the coefficients...
Extraordinary Live Load Model in Retail Premises
Based on a live load survey on six supermarkets, the probabilistic nature of sustained live loads and simulated extraordinary live loads were examined. The simulation was performed to...
An Investigation of Live Loads on Concrete Structures During Construction
Slab formwork live loads include the weight of equipment, construction material storage loads, and impact loads when placing the concrete. In this paper material and equipment loads are...
Nonlinear Load Exceedances with Correlated Sustained Load Process
Past studies on nonlinear structural response of a single member only concerned with independent, identically distributed load magnitudes. When the structural member is subjected to cumulative...
Extreme Value Distribution for Stochastic Processes Subject to a Full Load Climate
Reliability analysis of structures subject to environmental loads generally involves load effects which are properly treated as stochastic processes, and requires determination of the...
The Extremes of Combinations of Environmental Loads
The objectives and the general approach of an offshore environmental data and extremal analysis are described. The intention is to develop long-term design values of wave, wind and current...
Probabilistic Models for Loads Due to Bulk Solids
This paper presents two probabilistic models for loads due to bulk solids. One model seeks to obtain an accurate presentation of the loads; the model is used as a basis for a systematic...
Load Modelling for Single Story Steel Buildings
Realistic load assumptions for single story buildings are thus far complicated by the insufficient state of the modelling of individual loads as random variables or stochastic processes...
Statistical Analysis of Australian Ground Snow Loads
This paper is concerned with the statistical analysis of snow data from the alpine areas of southeastern Australia (above 1200 m). In these areas, the local variation is large and contour...
Optimization of Structures Under Stochastic Loads
A method for design under multiple stochastic loads based on optimization is developed. The objective function such as cost is minimized under the constraint that the probabilities of...
Optimum Studies of Coefficient Variation of UBC Seismic Forces
This paper presents an optimization algorithm for finding optimal parameters of a nondeterministic structure subjected to UBC seismic load for both normal and lognormal distribution models....
Some Considerations on the Acceptable Probability of Failure
The acceptable failure probability of technical structures and systems is studied in this paper. The problem is approached from two points of view: the personal and the social point of...
Safety Plans for Buildings, Structures and Technical Facilities
Safety is an important quality feature and depends on all activities within the building process. The safety concept must therefore consider all phases of the building process, from the...
Modelling of Damage Due to Structural Failure
A multistage method of simulating failure situations associated with collapse of structures is described. Method is applied to evaluate statistical characteristics of the size and cost...
General European Principles of Codes Concerning Reliability
The requirements for reliability cover safety, serviceability and durability and consider different causes and types of failure. They may concern the occurrence of a failure or the duration...
On the CICIND Code
The CICIND Model Code for Concrete Chimneys was created by CICIND, an international technical association which has as one of its main aims the creation of harmonized internationally accepted...
Probabilistic Traffic Load Models and Extreme Loads on a Bridge
This paper contains a summary of the intensive traffic measurements collected in France and Europe, and of the probabilistic distributions adopted for the main parameters. The evaluation...
Reliability-Based LRFD For Bridges: Theoretical Basis
This paper develops a theoretical basis for obtaining probability-based load combination criteria for structural design. For choosing the load combinations and for determining the factors...
Probabilistic Evaluation of Load Factors for Steel Rigid-Frame Piers on Urban Expressway Network
A procedure is proposed for calculating the optimal load factors for steel rigid-frame piers using the extended level 2 reliability method. Twelve typical types of pier structures are...
Code-Implied Structural Safety for Earthquake Loading
A method is described for calculating the probability of failure of reinforced concrete frame structures due to earthquake loading, for use in code calibration exercises. The failure criterion...
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