Engineering Transactions, 63, 3, pp. 297–315, 2015
10.24423/engtrans.46.2015

Some Reliability Issues of the Corrugated I-Beam Girder

Damian SOKOŁOWSKI

Poland

Marcin Marek KAMIŃSKI
http://www.kmk.p.lodz.pl/pracownicy/kaminski/index.htm
Department of Structural Mechanics, Technical University of Łódź, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environmental Engineering, Al. Politechniki 6, 90-924 Łódź
Poland

The main aim of this paper is reliability analysis of the corrugated-web I-girder carried out to verify its susceptibility to the random corrosion of the web and to make a comparison of the results of the first and of the second order reliability analysis. The methodology implemented in the study is based on the stochastic finite element method related to the generalized stochastic perturbation technique, where a discretization of the entire structure is carried out with four-node quadrilateral shell finite elements. This is numerically implemented using the FEM engineering system ROBOT and computer algebra system MAPLE, where all probabilistic procedures are programmed. The perturbation-based results are compared with these coming from the Monte-Carlo simulation and with an analytical solution obtained via symbolic integration carried out in MAPLE also. The indices of reliability are determined for the maximum deflections of the beam as the function of an input coefficient of variation of the web’s thickness whose meaning is the extent of a corrosion process.
Keywords: stochastic finite element method; perturbation method; reliability analysis; steel structures; weighted least squares method.
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DOI: 10.24423/engtrans.46.2015