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Author Beck, A.T.; Ribeiro, L.D.; Valdebenito, M.; Jensen, H. doi  openurl
  Title Risk-Based Design of Regular Plane Frames Subject to Damage by Abnormal Events: A Conceptual Study Type
  Year 2022 Publication Journal of Structural Engineering Abbreviated Journal J. Struct. Eng.  
  Volume 148 Issue 1 Pages 04021229  
  Keywords Risk optimization; Progressive collapse; Alternative path method; Discretionary column removal; Structural reliability; Regular frame structures; Optimal design; Probability threshold  
  Abstract Constructed facilities should be robust with respect to the loss of load-bearing elements due to abnormal events. Yet, strengthening structures to withstand such damage has a significant impact on construction costs. Strengthening costs should be justified by the threat and should result in smaller expected costs of progressive collapse. In regular frame structures, beams and columns compete for the strengthening budget. In this paper, we present a risk-based formulation to address the optimal design of regular plane frames under element loss conditions. We address the threat probabilities for which strengthening has better cost-benefit than usual design, for different frame configurations, and study the impacts of strengthening extent and cost. The risk-based optimization reveals optimum points of compromise between competing failure modes: local bending of beams, local crushing of columns, and global pancake collapse, for frames of different aspect ratios. The conceptual study is based on a simple analytical model for progressive collapse, but it provides relevant insight for the design and strengthening of real structures.  
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Author Yuan, X.K.; Liu, S.L.; Valdebenito, M.A.; Gu, J.; Beer, M. doi  openurl
  Title Efficient procedure for failure probability function estimation in augmented space Type
  Year 2021 Publication Structural Safety Abbreviated Journal Struct. Saf.  
  Volume 92 Issue Pages 102104  
  Keywords RELIABILITY-BASED OPTIMIZATION; NONINTRUSIVE STOCHASTIC-ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ESTIMATION; HIGH DIMENSIONS; DESIGN; SYSTEMS  
  Abstract An efficient procedure is proposed to estimate the failure probability function (FPF) with respect to design variables, which correspond to distribution parameters of basic structural random variables. The proposed procedure is based on the concept of an augmented reliability problem, which assumes the design variables as uncertain by assigning a prior distribution, transforming the FPF into an expression that includes the posterior distribution of those design variables. The novel contribution of this work consists of expressing this target posterior distribution as an integral, allowing it to be estimated by means of sampling, and no distribution fitting is needed, leading to an efficient estimation of FPF. The proposed procedure is implemented within three different simulation strategies: Monte Carlo simulation, importance sampling and subset simulation; for each of these cases, expressions for the coefficient of variation of the FPF estimate are derived. Numerical examples illustrate performance of the proposed approaches.  
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  Notes WOS:000659220400003 Approved  
  Call Number UAI @ alexi.delcanto @ Serial 1420  
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