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Damage Process of Composite Material with Randomly Oriented Fibers
A numerical procedure is formulated to make clear the damage process of composite materials with randomly oriented fibers. These composites often have complicated fiber oriented states,...

Fatigue Reliability of Steel Structures in the Presence of Residual Stresses
An extended model for the assessment of fatigue reliability of steel structures in the presence of residual stresses is developed. The model explicitly includes the uncertainties of the...

Fatigue Reliability and Remaining Fatigue Life of Existing Steel Rail-Road Bridges
This paper presents a fatigue reliability model for the reliability-based evaluation of remaining fatigue life of existing rail-road bridges. It is demonstrated that the simple fatigue...

Adaptive Reliability-Based Inspection Strategies for Structures Subject to Fatigue
Metallic structures subject to substantial load-induced fatigue must be inspected from time to time and, possibly, repaired or even put out of service if the damage has reached critical...

Time Variant Reliability Analysis Considering Corrosive Effects
In this study the influence of corrosion is determined as a function of the stress intensity factor, the frequency and the stress ratio of the loading process. The present study investigates...

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...

Open World Problems in Structural Reliability
A closed world model represents total knowledge about everything in a particular system. An open world model represents partial knowledge where some things are known to be true, some are...

Reliability Analysis for Nonlinear Limit States
An analytical procedure, incorporating individual probability distributions of random variables, is proposed for generating moments of any arbitrary order for the nonlinear limit state...

On the Application of Conditional Integration in Structural Reliability Analysis
An accurate, and efficient computational procedure is proposed for structural reliability analysis. The suggested advanced Monte-Carlo simulation utilizes the concept of conditional integration...

Reliability of Plastic Slabs
In the paper it is shown how upper and lower bounds for the reliability of plastic slabs can be determined. For the fundamental case it is shown that optimal bounds of a deterministic...

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...

Dynamic Reliability Analysis of 3D Frame Structures Using Random Fields Theory
A dynamic reliability analysis system of arbitrary shaped 3-dimensional frame structures is presented and its use is illustrated in bridge seismic safety assessment. The auto- and cross-spectral...

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...

Safety Assessment for Debris Basins
Debris basins are engineering control structures used in locations where debris flows occur. Knowledge of the risk of failure as a function of important design variables can improve decision-making...

Development of a Deep Knowledge Based Expert System for Structural Diagnostics
The paper tackles development of a structural reliability expert system, the basic goal of which is to improve current possibilities for structural safety and reliability analysis of critical...

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...

Application of Fuzzy-Bayesian Analysis to Structural Reliability
The purpose of this study is to develop a fuzzy-Bayesian reliability approach for the decision of proper inspection schedule to maintain structural integrity. According to this approach,...

Fuzzy Random Dynamical Reliability Analysis of Aseismic Structures
In our previous papers, by taking account of the fuzziness in the earthquake excitation, a fuzzy random model of earthquake ground motion has been established and a method of fuzzy random...

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Structural Reliability Assessment Expert Systems: Implementation in the Leak-Before-Break Prototype System
Knowledge representation and reasoning, considered of a major importance for building and practical application of the structural reliabilty assessment expert systems, are the issues tackled...

 

 

 

 

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