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Evaluation of structural reliability for reinforced concrete buildings exposed to corrosion

International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability (12th : 2015 : Vancouver, B.C.)

A probabilistic criterion proposed by Cornell et al (2002) and extended by Tolentino et al (2012) is used here to study the effect of long-term material degradation due to corrosion of reinforced concrete buildings located in the Pacific Coast of Mexico. The criterion considers, by means of closed form mathematical expressions, the simultaneous variation of the structural capacity and of the structural demand, over time. The structural reliability is represented in terms of two alternative indicators: a) the expected number of failures over a time interval, and b) the confidence factors as functions of time, within a Demand and Capacity Factor Design format. The reliability indicators are extended here in order to take into account the structural deterioration due to corrosion over a time interval. Both, aleatory and epistemic uncertainties are taken into account. The structural reliability is evaluated for a 4-story building subjected to a set of real seismic ground motions recorded in Acapulco Bay, Mexico.

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This collection contains the proceedings of ICASP12, the 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering held in Vancouver, Canada on July 12-15, 2015. Abstracts were peer-reviewed and authors of accepted abstracts were invited to submit full papers. Also full papers were peer reviewed. The editor for this collection is Professor Terje Haukaas, Department of Civil Engineering, UBC Vancouver.

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0076247

Non UBC

Unreviewed

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