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Methodology for Reliability-based Assessment of Capacity-Rating of Plate Girder Railroad Bridges using Ambient Measurement Data  

Cho, Hyo Nam (한양대학교 토목환경공학과)
Choi, Hyun Ho (한양대학교 토목환경공학과)
Lee, Sang Yoon (한국건설기술연구원)
Sun, Jong Wan (한양대학교 토목환경공학과)
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Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction / v.15, no.2, 2003 , pp. 187-196 More about this Journal
Abstract
Today, the Working Stress Rating (WSR) is being widely used for the capacity-rating and the safety assessment of railroad steel bridges. Since it cannot incorporate the uncertainties, several studies have been carried out in order to get over the incompleteness of the conventional capacity-rating and safety assessment. A system reliability-based equivalent capacity-rating method, which can evaluate the capacity of existing bridges, has been recently proposed. For more efficient reliability analysis, probabilistic parameters of the random variables in the limit-state models should be reasonably evaluated. Especially, uncertainties for live load effects must be realistically included. In this study, an improved limit-state model was used for the system reliability-based equivalent strength method. This model can incorporate the probabilistic parameters obtained from ambient measurement data. To demonstrate the applicability of the improved system reliability-based equivalent capacity rating method, this was applied to the existing steel plate girder bridge for comparison with the conventional capacity-rating and safety assessment.
Keywords
reliability; system reliability; capacity-rating; rating; railroad bridge; equivalent strength;
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