STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY OF A MULTISTORY BUILDING

Abstract

The failure of structural systems in civil engineering is a result of decisions taken from the conditions that are not certain and failures of various natures such as design failures, temporary failures and failures resulting from natural hazards that are needed to be tackled.

The art of formulating a mathematical model over which one can get answer to the questions: “What is the probability that a structure behaves in a specified way when given that one or more of its material properties or geometric dimensions and properties are of a random or incompletely known nature, and/or that the actions on the structure in some respects have random or incompletely known properties?”

Reliability of a structure is an extension to the analysis of a structure that is deterministic in nature which leads to the formulation of a mathematical model by which one get the answer to the question: “How is a structure behaving when its material properties, geometric properties and actions all are uniquely given?”