Probabilistic quantification of safety of a steel structure

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: 7210-PR-249

Project closed

Start date 1 July 2000

End date 30 June 2003

Funded under

• Medium-term guidelines for the ECSC steel RTD programme of research and pilot/demonstration projects, 1996-2002

Total cost € 724 000,00

EU contribution € 434 400,00

Coordinated by

PROFILARBED-RECHERCHES
Luxembourg

Objective

Modern design rules are based on limit state design, which considers ultimate limit states and limit states of serviceability. For these different limit states, the designer ensures a sufficient safety by using factors YM on the material properties and YF on the loads. The determination of these safety factors has been based on expert judgement, experience and a probabilistic approach. It is the aim of this project to perform complete reliability analysis of steel, composite and concrete buildings in order to highlight the advantage of the steel construction and to quantify in a scientific and mathematical way the safety level of the different construction types.

Programme(s)

• ECSC-STEEL C - Medium-term guidelines for the ECSC steel RTD programme of research and pilot/demonstration projects, 1996-2002

Topic(s)

• F6 - Steel structures

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

PROFILARBED-RECHERCHES

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 66, rue de Luxembourg ; 4221 ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE ; Luxembourg
• Total cost: No data

Participants (3)

LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECNOLOGY

Sweden

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 97187 LULEÅ
• Total cost: No data

RWTH - INSTITUTE OF STEEL CONSTRUCTION

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Mies-van-der-Rohe Strasse 1 ; 52074 AACHEN
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITÉ DE LIEGE

Belgium

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Place du XX Août 7 ; LIEGE
• Total cost: No data