A PROPOSAL ON LOAD COMBINATION FOR LEVEL 1 FORMATS

This paper completes and makes operative the results of previous investigations on the problem of calibrating the load enhancement factors to be applied in level 1 design processes. Some restrictive apects of the previous approach are then removed by introducing a suitable piecewise linear idealization for the actual safety domain. The problem is also formulated in a dimensionless way. The results of such calibration studies are values of the load safety factors to be introduced directly in present semi-probabilistic structural codes. These values depend on the assigned target reliability level. (Author/TRRL)

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• Authors:
  • Faravelli, L
• Publication Date: 1982-7

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 197-206
• Serial:
  • Engineering Structures
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0141-0296
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01410296

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Calibration; Design; Design methods; Load factor; Loads; Mathematical analysis; Probability; Safety; Safety factors; Standards; Structures
• Uncontrolled Terms: Probabilistic analysis
• ITRD Terms: 6471: Analysis (math); 9011: Design (overall design); 3355: Engineering structure; 5567: Load; 1665: Safety; 187: Specification (standard)
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Data and Information Technology; Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I24: Design of Bridges and Retaining Walls;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00367562
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 30 1982 12:00AM