ASSESSMENT OF TIME-DEPENDENT RELIABILITY OF REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS WITH UNCERTAIN LOAD ECCENTRICITY

An approach for the time-dependent reliability analysis of reinforced concrete (RC) columns considering the correlation between the axial load and the bending moment or the uncertainty in the load eccentricity is presented. The approach recursively uses the efficient first-order reliability method for the time-dependent reliability analysis. The proposed approach is more efficient than the ones used in the literature for the reliability analysis of RC columns. The proposed approach is used to carry out sensitivity analyses of the reliability of short RC columns to the time-dependent live load effects and to the correlation between the axial load and the bending moment. Results of the analyses suggest that the reliability of RC columns can be sensitive to the correlation between the axial load and the bending moment due to live load. The differences between the reliability indices obtained by considering the live load modeled as a pulse process and as an extreme variate can be large.Key words: reliability,...

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