Probabilistic models for the extent of damage in degrading reinforced concrete structures

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 410-422

  Sudret, B ^a  

^a R and D Division   (France)

Author keywords

Concrete carbonation; Degradation models; EOLE method; Extent of damage; Random fields; Rebars corrosion; Space variant reliability; Time variant reliability

Indexed keywords

CARBONATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; DEGRADATION; DURABILITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CONCRETE CARBONATION; DEGRADATION MODELS; SPACE-VARIANT RELIABILITY; TIME-VARIANT RELIABILITY;

REINFORCED CONCRETE;

EID: 35348948051     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2006.12.019     Document Type: Article

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