Robustness based evaluation of a concrete frame considering the Eurocode design guidelines
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Didier Droogné
(Department of Structural Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium)
Wouter Botte 
(Department of Structural Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium)
Robby Caspeele
(Department of Structural Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium)
Luc Taerwe (Department of Structural Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Congress: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2016 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Stockholm, 2016 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 423-430 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2016 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/stockholm.2016.0400 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Despite the development of structural codes such as the Eurocodes, one has to acknowledge that structural robustness is still an issue of controversy, being underlined by several structural failures in the past decades. One of the problems is the lack of a procedure to quantify the robustness of a structure in an objective way. In this contribution the robustness of a reference reinforced concrete frame is quantified applying a multi-level computational-efficient calculation scheme and using a risk-based robustness index to investigate the effectiveness of the Eurocode guidelines. Hereby the nonlinear behaviour of the reinforced concrete elements and the global behaviour of the structural frame are taken into account. |
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| Keywords: |
robustness membrane action RC beams Eurocodes frame analysis probabilistic numerical analysis
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