Evaluating the Corrosion of Steel Reinforcement for Probabilistic Analysis of Concrete Beams

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1 Dept. civil eng. Uneversity of Zabol

2 Department of Civil Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Branch of Farsan

3 Department of Civil Engineering, University of Zabol

Abstract

The corroded reinforcement bars are the important issue of the concrete permanence due to reduction of the safety factor of the structure against the applied external loads. Corrosion of steel reinforcement has a complex process which due to the reduction in the resistance crass sectional area of the reinforced bars and degradation of concrete structure. Therefore, there are more important that the reinforced concrete structures are evaluated under corrosion at service loads due to an optimum and robust design to achieve a good durability and assessed the time-life service. The reinforced concrete beams are a one of most component that implemented for constructing the reinforced concrete. In the period-times the corrosion, the concrete beams have variety uncertainties such as model uncertainty, load and resistance uncertainty. These uncertainties can be considered using a probabilistic model based on the basis of random variables. The random variables in probabilistic models can be given by several statistical characteristics including probability density functions and their parameters (e.g. mean and standard deviation). The various methods including the first-order reliability method (FORM) and the second-order reliability method (SORM) methods, simulation approach and surrogate-based modeling are used to evaluate the probabilistic model in reliability analysis [1]. The Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) is widely used in reliability analysis due to simplicity and more accurately.

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Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Volume 47.2, Issue 87 - Serial Number 87
Summer 2017
September 2017
Pages 89-99

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