A Simple Evaluation Technique For System Reliability Of Rigid Frames

摘要

The present study deals with the system reliability evaluation of multi failure mode systems by application of the second-order bounds method which guarantees practical convergence of reliability, particularly, in case of prominent failure modes approximately in parallel with inefficiency of numerical simulation. Practical activity of the present method is positively discussed on numerical comparison between the ultimate limit state and the serviceability limit state of six story, two span rectangular frames.