Faculty of Engineering: Recent submissions
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System Reliabilities of Planar Gravity Steel Frames Designed by the Inelastic Method in AISC 360-10
Published 2018-03-01Current methods for designing steel structures, such as load and resistance factor design (LRFD) are based on safety checks of individual members derived from elastic analysis. The next generation of steel design methods ...Open AccessPreprint -
A new unbiased metamodel method for efficient reliability analysis
Published 2017-07-01Metamodel method is widely used in structural reliability analysis. A main limitation of this method is that it is difficult or even impossible to quantify the model uncertainty caused by the metamodel approximation. This ...Open AccessPreprint -
A new maximum entropy-based importance sampling for reliability analysis
Published 2016-11-01Importance sampling can be highly efficient if a good importance sampling density is constructed. Although the parametric sampling densities centered on the design points are often good choices, the determination of the ...Open AccessPreprint -
Recent developments on the Component Method
Published 2019-09-16The Component Method is well established and incorporated in Part 1.8 of Eurocode3 for the design of connections of steel frameworks. It is primarily intended to provide the elastic joint stiffness, although Part 1.8 ...Open AccessConference paper -
Generalised Component Model for Structural Steel Joints
Published 2019-02-01This paper presents a generalised component model for structural steel joints that extends the Component Method to the post-ultimate and post-fracture ranges. In this approach, a tri-linear spring model was developed for ...Open AccessArticle