A New Safety Format for Nonlinear Analysis
Paper in proceeding, 2011

With the increasing use of nonlinear analysis of concrete structures, questions concerning an appropriate safety format have been raised. When the safety format for nonlinear analysis according to EN 1992-2 was developed a model uncertainty which corresponds to simple beam and frame analysis was accounted for. However, when the safety format is applied on more difficult to model failure modes, which result in a higher model uncertainty, the safety format leads to design resistances below the target reliability. A new safety format for nonlinear analysis was proposed which leads to better agreement with the target reliability.

safety format

reliability

nonlinear analysis

model uncertainty

Author

Hendrik Schlune

Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Structural Engineering

Mario Plos

Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Structural Engineering

Kent Gylltoft

Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Structural Engineering

Sven Thelandersson

Thomas Svensson

Proceeding of XXI Nordic Concrete Research Symposium

Vol. 43 1/2011 41-44

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Building Futures (2010-2018)

Subject Categories

Reliability and Maintenance

Building Technologies

Probability Theory and Statistics

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Created

10/7/2017