Issues related to structural aging in probabilistic risk assessment of nuclear power plants

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 171-183

  Ellingwood, Bruce R ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Concrete (reinforced); Corrosion; Deterioration; Earthquakes; Fragility; Limit states; Probability; Reliability; Risk; Statistics; Structural engineering

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; CORROSION; DETERIORATION; EARTHQUAKES; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PROBABILITY; REINFORCED CONCRETE; RELIABILITY; STATISTICS; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL MEMBERS;

FRAGILITY; STRUCTURAL AGING; STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0032318526     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(98)00018-0     Document Type: Article

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