Life-Cycle Seismic Reliability Analysis of a Railway Cable-Stayed Bridge Considering Material Corrosion and Degradation

To study the life-cycle seismic reliability analysis (SRA) of cable-stayed bridges (CSBs) taking into account chloride-induced corrosion and degradation of components, an actual railway CSB with uncertainties in structural geometry and material corrosion coefficients was employed in this investigation, and time-dependent models of CSB components at different service times were studied. Based on the OpenSees batch program, we adapted a mass numerical computation to obtain time-dependent non-linear seismic response and probability density function (PDF) of response via the multiplier dimensional-reduction method (MDRM) and the maximum entropy method with fractional moments (FM-MEM). Next, the time-dependent failure possibility of every component and the association coefficient between the failure modes of different parts were acquired. In the end, the product of the conditional marginal (PCM) approach was employed to obtain the life-cycle failure possibility of the CSB system. The results showed that the system failure possibility of the CSB in a corrosive environment increases significantly with increasing servicing time.

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