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Earthquake Energy Partitioning in Base Isolated and Dynamically Damped Structures
New earthquake energy spectra are proposed for practical design procedures using energy concepts. The spectra show integrated earthquake input energy of a unit mass with given natural...

Design of Buildings Under Earthquake Loadings Using Three-Stage Friction-Grip Elements
A simple method is given for the design of earthquake resistant buildings using three-stage friction-grip elements. Predesign is done by static analysis and verification is performed by...

Safety Improvement of Earthquake Loaded Structures Application of Semi-Active Control in Multi-Storey Buildings
This paper presents the studies for development of a new concept of aseismic design of structures. Basis of that engineering will be a structural optimization including elastic supported...

A Study of Seismic Reliability of Base Isolated Building Comparing with Non Base Isolated Building
An approach to discuss the difference between reliability of base-isolated buildings and that of non base-isolated buildings is presented. The fragility analysis method in PRA procedure...

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,...

Examples of System Optimization and Reliability in Bridge Design
The objective of this paper is to present examples of system optimization and reliability in bridge inelastic design. The optimum solution is defined as the bridge of least weight, subject...

Design of Aircraft Wings Subjected to Gust Loads: A System Reliability Approach
A method for system reliability based design of aircraft wings is presented. A wing of a light commuter aircraft designed according to the FAA regulations is compared with one designed...

Probabilistic Concepts of Redundancy and Damage Tolerability for Structural Systems
Intermediate states of structural systems (prior to system collapse and after component loss) are focused herein. This area relates to important issues such as redundancy and damage tolerability....

Reduction of First Excursion Probability of Nonlinear Secondary System
This paper deals with reduction of first excursion probability of nonlinear secondary system subjected to seismic excitations. Especially, gap and friction characteristics are considered...

Response Variability of Isolated Structure Due to Randomness of Isolation Devices
Effect of randomness of restoring characteristics of an isolation device, which is considered to result from the randomness of material properties, configuration and setting error, on...

Fatigue Design and Reliability Analysis of CFRP Composites
The statistical fatigue properties of unidirectional (UD) T800/3631 carbon/epoxy composite laminates are investigated in this paper. Fatigue tests were conducted under rotating bending....

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...

Safety Levels of Reinforced Concrete Box Culverts for Installing Power Supply Cables
The authors have examined the applicability of reliability-based design to the existing reinforced concrete box culverts for installing power supply cables. The lowest safety index of...

Structural Safety and Satisfaction
The mathematical program of a cost extremum constrained by safety, functional and other statements is a comfortable image of design. In this paper the various components of this program...

Qualitative Design for Safety and Reliability
This work aims at developing a fundamental methodology for the qualitative reliability design of machines and structures to cope with the present situation of small production with a wide...

Probabilistic and Reliability Analysis of Asphalt Concrete Airfield Pavements
A procedure was developed to analyze layered elastic asphaltic concrete airfield pavement systems in terms of probability and reliability. Rosenblueth method is used to estimate the expected...

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...

Limit States Reliability Interaction in Optimum Design of Structural Systems
A multiobjective optimization approach to deal with structural reliability-based design under multiple limit states is developed. This approach resolves the limit states reliability interaction...

Structural Optimization Based on Component-Level Reliabilities
A minimum-weight optimum design procedure is proposed including the reliabilities of various elements in a structure as constraints. The reliability indices corresponding to the various...

 

 

 

 

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