TY - CONF A1 - Holický, Milan A1 - Diamantidis, Dimitris A1 - Retief, Johan Verster A1 - Barnardo-Viljoen, Celeste T1 - On Standardization of the Reliability Basis of Structural Design T2 - ICASP12 : 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, July 12-15, 2015 N2 - The principles of structural reliability are sufficiently advanced to be used extensively to develop design standards even at international level. The concept of limit states is generally accepted and implemented. Present standards are however to a large extent based on past experience, rather than on quantitative reliability modeling. It appears that reliability principles and models can bridge the gap between probabilistic assessment and operational design. Representative theoretical models are presented to indicate how judgment based reliability concepts can be complemented or replaced by the use of such models. The importance of reliability levels, reference period, design working life, specified characteristic values of basic variables and methods to derive their design values from reliability procedures are demonstrated. On this basis a standardized basis of structural design can be formulated to convert the reliability principles (such as provided by ISO 2394) into operational design procedures (such as used by EN 1990 and other standards). It is concluded that reliability principles and models could contribute further to international harmonization of structural design. Y1 - 2015 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-oth-regensburg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/5079 PB - The University of British Columbia CY - Vancouver ER -