Structural Reliability and Risk Assessment

Fire damaged Car park; How safe are the structural members for further use?

Usually structures are subject to different hazards. Hazards are given by loss of structural health, natural impacts and sometimes hazards are man made. Structural health can be investigated by experimental methods, determining actual material properties, structural behaviour and existing damages.

The analysis of structural health is supported by structural health monitoring methods. For further safety assessment, also hazards of actions must be considered. Statistical simulations are very useful to determine extreme loads or impacts. After extreme impacts, there is often the need of a safe use of the structure in the following life cycle.

Special subjects

• Application of non destructive methods for structural health monitoring
• Assessment of actions
• Damage analysis and damage evaluation
• Damage prediction
• rehabilitation measures
• Structural risk management
• Risk analysis
• System behaviour prediction
• Assessment of safety measures
• Development of innovative safety measures

Testing facilities of this Working Group

Universal large-scale test rig
Impact Testing Machine
Workspace for flexible test setups

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