The Structural Safety Assessment of the Overloaded Members of Highway Bridges

A residual reliability index of load-carrying structures of existing highway bridges overloaded by unforeseen vehicular live loads is discussed. The primary and inspection structural safety margins of particular members of bridges are considered. The primary and revised survival probabilities of int...

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Main Author: Antanas Kudzys
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Riga Technical University Press 2009-12-01
Series:The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering
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Online Access:https://bjrbe-journals.rtu.lv/article/view/3822
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description A residual reliability index of load-carrying structures of existing highway bridges overloaded by unforeseen vehicular live loads is discussed. The primary and inspection structural safety margins of particular members of bridges are considered. The primary and revised survival probabilities of intact particular members are analysed. Target reliability indices of the structural members of road bridges are presented. A transformed Bayes theorem in the analysis of revised failure probabilities of overloaded members of highway bridges is recommended. The Bayesian approach is combined with the method of transformed conditional probabilities for series systems. The simple calculation of revised reliability indices of particular members is demonstrated by a numerical example.
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spelling doaj-art-615eb0fb6ecd472f82b8ba4d67d2e5a12025-01-02T11:23:53ZengRiga Technical University PressThe Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering1822-427X1822-42882009-12-014414915510.3846/1822-427X.2009.4.149-1552150The Structural Safety Assessment of the Overloaded Members of Highway BridgesAntanas Kudzys0Institute of Architecture and Construction, Kaunas University of Technology, Tunelio g. 60, 44405 Kaunas, LithuaniaA residual reliability index of load-carrying structures of existing highway bridges overloaded by unforeseen vehicular live loads is discussed. The primary and inspection structural safety margins of particular members of bridges are considered. The primary and revised survival probabilities of intact particular members are analysed. Target reliability indices of the structural members of road bridges are presented. A transformed Bayes theorem in the analysis of revised failure probabilities of overloaded members of highway bridges is recommended. The Bayesian approach is combined with the method of transformed conditional probabilities for series systems. The simple calculation of revised reliability indices of particular members is demonstrated by a numerical example.https://bjrbe-journals.rtu.lv/article/view/3822transformed bayes theoremoverloaded bridgesafety marginrevised reliability index
spellingShingle Antanas Kudzys
The Structural Safety Assessment of the Overloaded Members of Highway Bridges
The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering
transformed bayes theorem
overloaded bridge
safety margin
revised reliability index
title The Structural Safety Assessment of the Overloaded Members of Highway Bridges
title_full The Structural Safety Assessment of the Overloaded Members of Highway Bridges
title_fullStr The Structural Safety Assessment of the Overloaded Members of Highway Bridges
title_full_unstemmed The Structural Safety Assessment of the Overloaded Members of Highway Bridges
title_short The Structural Safety Assessment of the Overloaded Members of Highway Bridges
title_sort structural safety assessment of the overloaded members of highway bridges
topic transformed bayes theorem
overloaded bridge
safety margin
revised reliability index
url https://bjrbe-journals.rtu.lv/article/view/3822
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