@inproceedings{LiPasternakPartov, author = {Li, Zheng and Pasternak, Hartmut and Partov, Doncho}, title = {Influence of statistical size effect in steel on structural safety}, series = {Proceedings of 16th International Conference on New Trends in Statics and Dynamics of Buildings}, booktitle = {Proceedings of 16th International Conference on New Trends in Statics and Dynamics of Buildings}, editor = {Jendželovsk{\´y}, Norbert and Grmanov{\´a}, Alžbeta}, publisher = {Slovak University of Technology}, address = {Bratislava}, isbn = {978-80-227-4845-2}, abstract = {This paper present the investigation of the statistical size effect in steel structure and the corresponding reliability. This study described the randomness of material properties through two different ways. These two proposed simulation methods, which are an extension and supplement to traditional simulation methods, can effectively simulate the statistical size effect for the tensile and flexural components in steel structures. The test results show that the variations of the yield and tensile strength increase with the decreasing specimen volume. Besides, the structural component strength is not only related to the specimen volume, but also the stress distribution. It is found by studying the influence of statistical size effect on structural reliability that the strength, which is obtained by small specimens through statistical analysis in the laboratory, is no more accurately applicable to large construction. The core idea is that the stochastic material proper-ties are directly embedded in mechanical calculations to develop a more accurate and economical design method for steel structure.}, language = {en} } @misc{LiPasternak, author = {Li, Zheng and Pasternak, Hartmut}, title = {Experimental and numerical investigations of statistical size effect in S235JR steel structural elements}, series = {Construction and Building Materials}, volume = {206}, journal = {Construction and Building Materials}, issn = {0950-0618}, doi = {10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2019.02.106}, pages = {665 -- 673}, abstract = {This paper presents the analysis of the statistical size effect in steel structural elements using the stochastic finite element (FE) method. The three-dimensional random field theory is applied to simulate the uncertainty of a nonlinear material. The proposed approach, which combines the discrete random field describing the randomness of the material properties via Monte Carlo simulations, is used for computing the bearing capacity variability of the steel structures. In addition, the mapping interpolation method makes it possible to separate the random field mesh and FE model mesh. The three-dimensional random field for the material properties is established according to the yield strength with a lognormal distribution based on reasonable assumptions, and the corresponding random field parameters are studied. Finally, the results of experimental investigation and simulations are compared based on the tensile and bending tests, and they indicate that the statistical size effect cannot be overlooked in S235JR steel structural elements and that the use of stochastic FE in the analysis of the statistical size effect has tremendous potential.}, language = {en} }