Lifetime-oriented structural design concepts: reinforced concrete buildings

Safety and reliability are important for the whole expected service duration of an engineering structure. Therefore, prognostical solutions are needed and uncertainties have to be handled. A differentiation according to building types with respective service life requirements is necessary. Life-cycle strategies to control future structural degradations by concepts of appropriate design have to be developed, in case including means of inspection, maintenance, and repair.Aspects of costs and sustainability also matter. The Cooperative Research Center for Lifetime-Oriented Design Concepts SFB 398 at Ruhr University in Bochum concentrate its work on structural lifetime management within the present book. Lifetime-related fundamentals are provided with respect to structuralengineering, structural and soil mechanics, material science as well as computational methods and simulation techniques. Stochastic aspects and interactions between various influences are included. Latest research results in order toinclude the lifetime of materials into the concept of buildings Emphasis on concrete and steel constructions INDICE: Lifetime-Oriented Design Concepts.- Damage-Oriented Actions and Environmental Impact on Materials and Structures.- Deterioration of Materials and Structures: Phenomena, Experiments and Modelling.- Methodological Implementation.- Future Life Time Oriented Design.

• ISBN: 978-3-642-01461-1
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 800
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés