Engineering Mechanics

Proceedings Vol. 10 (2004)

ENGINEERING MECHANICS 2004

Copyright © 2004 Institute of Thermomechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague

 

Pustka D., Marek P.
pages 253 - +9p., full text

Dramatic development of computer technology allows for consideration the transition from „Partial Factors Method“ to structural reliability assessment concept based on fully probabilistic approach. A probabilistic concept SBRA based on Limit State philosophy, Monte Carlo simulation technique and parameters generated histograms has been developed over the last fifteen years and documented e.g. in [5] and [10]. The paper shortly explains the limitations of the Partial Factors Design concept, PFD, and on concrete example of a simple steel structure shows the differences between reliability assessment based on the PFD approach used in Eurocode and SBRA method.

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