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System reliability evaluation of long-span cable-stayed bridges

 System reliability evaluation of long-span cable-stayed bridges
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Presented at IABSE Symposium: Large Structures and Infrastructures for Environmentally Constrained and Urbanised Areas, Venice, Italy, 22-24 September 2010, published in , pp. 302-303
DOI: 10.2749/222137810796024600
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The long span cable-stayed bridges exhibit important geometric nonlinearity that should be considered in their analysis and design. Unless simplifying assumptions are made, system reliability evalu...
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Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Symposium: Large Structures and Infrastructures for Environmentally Constrained and Urbanised Areas, Venice, Italy, 22-24 September 2010
Published in:
Page(s): 302-303 Total no. of pages: 7
Page(s): 302-303
Total no. of pages: 7
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.2749/222137810796024600
Abstract:

The long span cable-stayed bridges exhibit important geometric nonlinearity that should be considered in their analysis and design. Unless simplifying assumptions are made, system reliability evaluation of these structures is complex and can be very time consuming. This paper proposed an approximate method to conduct system reliability analysis of long span cable-stayed bridges. The method integrates the advantages of the response surface method (RSM), finite element method (FEM), β-unzipping method and the improved product of conditional marginal (I-PCM) method. The accuracy and efficiency of the method is demonstrated through one numerical example. Then the method is used to evaluate the system reliability of cable-stayed bridges. The example cable- stayed bridge is the Sutong Bridge with a main span length of 1088 m built in China. The obtained results clearly show the applicability and merits of the proposed method.

Keywords:
cable-stayed bridges finite element method (FEM) geometric nonlinearity system reliability response surface method

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