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Reliability based design optimization of insulation systems considering climate change and workmanship uncertainties

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

Today, the political and regulatory framework related to the building sector is more demanding as it remains the principal source of air pollution leading to global warming. Therefore, it is important to have a better control on the energetic performance of the building envelope in order to control the consumption. This paper presents a methodology allowing us to obtain optimal designs of the envelope considering different kinds of uncertainties mainly those related to climate changes, material deterioration and man-made defects. The time-dependent uncertainties are considered as random processes while the time-invariant variability related to defects is considered as random variable. The results show the impact of considering these uncertainties on the long term reliability of the system and give different optimal designs according to the considered climatic scenario.

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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

10.14288/1.0076283

Non UBC

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/