Reliability of existing structures

Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 187-206

  Hong, Han Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Probability of failure; Proof load; Reliability index; Reliability updating; Service proven structure

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; LOAD LIMITS; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; RELIABILITY INDEX; RELIABILITY UPDATING; SERVICE LOADS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032291899     PISSN: 10286608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02630259808970239     Document Type: Article

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