Modern standards treat the resistance R and the action effects E as random variables. Structural safety and serviceability are achieved based on specified target failure probabilities considering a reasonable target confidence. The course aims in developing a deeper understanding of the basic design concepts used in modern standards and presents tools which can be used for design problems which are not covered by Standards.
The course is structured in lectures on Thursdays and exercises on Mondays, and concentrates on the following topics:
Basic definitions - safety, reliability, probability, risk
Descriptive statistics and common theoretical distributions
Failure probability and basic design concept
Probabilistic models for actions and resistance
Simulation techniques
As part of the examination, a practical problem has to be analyzed by simulation in the scope of a homework.
- Kursleiter/in: Michael Kasperski