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STRUCTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING
Volume 6, Issue 1-2, Pages 257-278Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/15732470802664498
Keywords
bridges; structural systems; superstructures; substructures; redundancy; reliability
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Major advances have been recently achieved in developing methodologies for the structural analysis of cascading failures and in understanding the behaviour of different types of systems under suddenly applied extreme loads. Yet, a main issue related to defining objective measures of redundancy and quantifying the levels of redundancy that exist in structural systems remains vastly unresolved. This paper reviews the work done by the authors and their colleagues on the quantification of system redundancy of typical highway bridges and reassesses previously made proposals for including system redundancy and robustness during the structural design and safety evaluation of bridge superstructure and substructure systems. These proposals, which are based on system reliability principles, consider structural system safety, system redundancy and system robustness in comparison to member safety, and account for the uncertainties associated with determining member and system strengths as well as future loads in a consistent and rational manner.
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