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ESRA Technical Committee on
Safety in Civil Engineering
Risk and reliability methods are essential tools for the design and exploitation of all kinds of civil engineering structures like buildings, bridges, tunnels, dikes, breakwaters, and so on. For important structures the Eurocode system even requires a full (either quantitative or qualitative) risk analysis, including a systematic survey of the hazards, a development of load and resistance models, structural analysis and quantification of the possible consequences. Based on the results decisions for an optimal set of risk mitigating measures can be taken.
However, for the majority of structures such a full risk analysis is too complex and time consuming. There is a need to cook the general method down, in a consistent way, to relatively simple design rules, like the partial factor method or a set of prescriptive robustness criteria. The task of the committee is to be active on both levels of sophistication and make sure that both methods lead to economically and socially acceptable solutions.
Although the committee in principle deals with the total field of risk and reliability analysis in civil engineering, the emphasis of activities will be on the modelling and calculation aspects of Structural Reliability Analysis, linear as well as non-linear, static as well as dynamic, time independent as well as time dependent. The committee will closely cooperate with the Joint Committee on Structural Safety who is already working in this field for more then 25 years.
Chairman
• Ton Vrouvenwelder
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ESREL 2010
Anual Conference
Rhodes, Greece
September 5 - 9, 2010
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