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Determination of target safety for structures

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

Codes of practice aim at guaranteeing structures having the risks acceptable to the public and the minimum total costs over a design working life. However, current criteria for structural design provide a broad range of target reliability indices, specified often for different reference periods even though their recalculation for different reference periods is indeterminate due to mutual dependence of failure events. General approaches for selecting target reliability levels are discussed in view of cost-benefit optimisation and human safety aspects. Design strategies seem to be driven by economic arguments rather than by human safety criteria.

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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

10.14288/1.0076258

Non UBC

Unreviewed

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