Specification of target reliability levels is one of the key issues of the assessment of existing
structures. ISO 13822: 2010 and ISO 2394: 2015 indicate procedures for specification of …

Specifying the target reliability levels is one of the key issues in the assessment of existing
structures. For a majority of existing buildings and infrastructures, the design life has been …

The target reliability levels recommended in various national and international documents
vary within a broad range, while the reference to the failure consequences and design …

Optimization techniques are essential ingredients of reliability-oriented optimal designs of
technical facilities. Suitable objective functions are presented for different replacement …

We review the developments in life safety and the incorporation thereof in the design and
assessment of structures over the last 50 years. Various measures of life safety are …

Due to the ageing of the existing infrastructure on a worldwide scale and to the lack of codes
for the continued safety management of structures during their lifetime, it is necessary to …

A common approach to define criteria to reliability performance of structures in the
development of semi-probabilistic design codes and for probabilistic design of individual …

Due to intensive investments in the construction of civil infrastructures in the 1960s and
1970s, the number of deteriorating structures has increased considerably in the last decade …

Life-cycle cost analysis of deteriorating structures has to consider not only time-varying
resistance and loading affecting the reliability of these structures but also maintenance …

Reliability assessment of engineered structures is a powerful and useful concept to estimate
the structural capacity of withstanding hazardous events during their service lives. Taking …