Reliability Assessment of Steel Structural Elements in Wind Excited Buildings

One of the basic principles of the design of structures is that they must be sufficiently safe and meet the required reliability requirements. In Eurocode NEN-EN 1990 specific minimum reliability index values are defined, which depend on a certain reference period and reliability class. To ensure that the structures meet the reliability...

Failure mode dependent raliability in composites: Using mode-dependent failure criteria and modelling last ply failure in composite reliability

The failure of composite laminates is most commonly evaluated through deterministic approaches. However, even though these traditional methods predict the failure well on average, they cannot take into account the inherent probabilistic aspect of failure mechanics. Thus, reliability methods allow for a better structural assessment and improve...

Reliability updating of existing quay walls based on the effects of past performance: Introduction of a novel mathematical application in the probabilistic assessment and evaluation of quay walls

In practice, many structures among which quay walls are designed according the Dutch national guidelines (CUR). Dutch national practical guidelines (NPR), with guidelines for renovation, is still in development for the building industry. These guidelines follow the Dutch Norms (NEN) and Annexes. The guidelines propose procedures in which newly...