Validation of a Newly Proposed Global Factor Method Applied in the Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Structures Modelled by NLFEA: Verifying the new Global Factor Method as a safety format in assessing the structural capacity of reinforced concrete structures with non-linear finite element analysis in the case of clustered failure modes

Nowadays, one of the main requirements from civil engineering structures is the level of reliability and safety that they must provide to the users. In structural analysis, the exponential application of numerical methods, as the nonlinear finite element analysis (NLFEA), is due to the increasing growth of computational power. These powerful...