Bridge Repairs?Unexpected Effects on Reliability
There is a significant probability that a bridge will require repairs at some time during its service life. Repairs correcting one deficiency can cause other, unanticipated problems. Awareness...
Rehabilitation of Highway Bridges: Design and Operational Considerations
The design of a rehabilitation of a bridge which must maintain some lanes of traffic requires special consideration of construction procedures and traffic control, which are discussed...
Reliability Based Optimal Structural and Mechanical Design
A reliability based optimal design strategy has been developed. Nonlinear limit state functions and nonnormal random variables can be accommodated. For structural systems analysis, a failure...
System Reliability Under Time Varying Load
The reliability of ductile and brittle structural systems under time varying loads is investigated. The formulation in the context of outcrossing of a vector process is examined. A new...
Reliability Methods for Steel Members Subjected to Axial Load and Moment
There has been a significant amount of research performed on determining the reliability of elastic-plastic frames where failure is through the formation of a plastic collapse mechanism....
Statistical Analysis of Occupant Dynamic Loads
Human-induced load-time histories were modeled by several dependent descriptive parameters. These parameters were treated as functions of two independent variables in a multivariate regression...
Reduction of Imposed Loads for Beam and Column Design
Imposed loads on beams and columns are generally reduced to effect in economy in design. A study to evaluate the reduction criteria by evaluating the Equivalent Uniformly Distributed Loads...
Reliability Analysis of Single-Headed Anchor Bolts
Several design equations for predicting the capacity of single-headed anchor bolts embedded in plain concrete have been recommended in the United States. The capacities predicted by these...
Design Wind Loads for Broadcasting Antennas from Short Time Records
Very useful would be procedures for the determination of the design wind load on the basis of short time records, of duration comparable with the preliminary and/or design phases, so that...
Pressures on Prisms in Turbulent Shear Flows
Experimental results are presented which show that Melbourne's 'Small Scale Spectral Density Parameter,' S, controls the negative pressures on the...
Dynamic Response of Tall Buildings to Wind Loads
The purpose of this study is to perform a probabilistic analysis of tall buildings subjected to wind excitation. A time domain simulation is first applied to the nonlinear problem. After...
A Tower-Like Structure with Distributed Stiffness, Mass and Plastic Zones Under Random Earthquake Loading
Random vibrations of an elastoplastic structure are treated by taking into account the finite spread of plastic zones as well as the effects of distributed mass and stiffness. Solution...
Probabilistic Structural Response of a Turbopump Blade to Random Pulse Loading
The objective of this work is to develop probabilistic models of the response of a Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) turbopump blade to random impact loading. These loads are caused by...
Applying the Time-Reliability Equation
This paper presents a methodology for rigorously including time-varying elements of reliability through the use of the time-reliability equation. An example reliability analysis which...
Quantifying Quality Improvement Programs
Structural codes are evolving to a limit state design basis in which the safety checks are derived from the underlying probability distributions of strength and loads. An example safety...
Fatigue Reliability of Ship Hull Girder
Based on estimates on uncertainties in wave loading and fatigue capacity the fatigue reliability of ship hull girder is calculated with respect to global vertical wave bending moment....
Effect of Air Gap on Platform Reliability
A simplified reliability study of the effect of lateral wave forces impacting the deck of a fixed platform is presented. The reliability of the deck legs, considered the primary resistance...
Resolving Reliability Issues for an Offshore Platform Code
A fixed steel offshore platform design specification based on reliability concepts has been developed which could become an alternate to the existing working stress code, American Petroleum...
Rainflow Cycles in Nonstationary Gaussian Processes
This paper develops a methodology for calculating the probability distribution for rainflow cycles in a nonstationary Gaussian process. The up- and downcrossing rates are estimated for...
Probability of Failure Under a Biaxial State of Stress
Structural components are subjected to uniaxial stress states only infrequently. Even under such simple conditions as direction tension or bending the presence of holes, cutouts and other...
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