Structural reliability targets for assessment of ageing infrastructure

Author(s): M. Kabani, P. Moyo, M.G. Alexander
Paper category: Conference
Book title: Concrete Repair, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting III (ICCRRR)
Editor(s): M.G. Alexander, H.-D. Beushausen, F. Dehn, P. Moyo
Print ISBN: 978-0-415-89952-9
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Pages: 280- 281
Total Pages: 2
Language: English

Abstract: 
The constraints faced by civil infrastructure managers have prompted innovative reliability optimisation approaches to minimise life cycle costs. This minimisation has been effective at design stage. The design based optimisation is constrained by societal expectations and notions of safety. The constraints applied in the optimisation at assessment stage are different due to increase of information on loads, resistances, costs and benefits specific to the structure under consideration. A review of these constraints is presented here together with possible areas of modifications when dealing with assessment of structures.

Online publication: 2014
Publication Type: abstract_only
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