TY - JOUR ED - Emde, Markus ED - Muhr, Chrissie T1 - 0119 - Brandlhuber b&k+ ; 1992 - 2008 Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-86560-570-2 IS - 194 PB - König CY - Köln ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Holicky, Milan A1 - Diamantidis, Dimitris A1 - Sýkora, Miroslav ED - de Wilde, W. P. ED - Hernández, S. ED - Kravanja, S. T1 - Economically optimum structural design BT - methodology and case study T2 - High Performance and Optimum Design of Structures and Materials III (HPSM/OPTI 2018) ; Ljubljana, Slovenia 11.07.2018 - 13.07.2018 N2 - Codes of practice aim to assure structures have acceptable risks to the public and the minimum total costs over the working life of a design. However, current codified criteria for structural design correspond to a broad range of reliability levels, specified for dissimilar reference periods even though their recalculation for different periods is uncertain due to unknown dependence of failure events in time. In this contribution, target reliability levels are specified on the basis of probabilistic risk optimization considering the objective function as a sum of various costs including effects of time to failure and discounting. A case study presents probabilistic optimization of the roof of a stadium for 4,000 spectators and illustrates the effect of the considered input parameters. Failure consequences and relative cost of safety measure are shown to be major factors affecting the optimum reliability level. Less important factors are the discount rate and working life. Large uncertainty in failure cost estimates seems to have only a marginal effect on derived optimum reliability levels. KW - failure consequences KW - risk acceptance KW - probabilistic optimization KW - target reliability, KW - stadium KW - total cost KW - working life Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2495/hpsm180151 SP - 143 EP - 153 PB - WIT ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Sýkora, Miroslav A1 - Holicky, Milan A1 - Diamantidis, Dimitris T1 - Target Reliability for Existing Civil Engineering Systems T2 - 2016 Second International Symposium on Stochastic Models in Reliability Engineering, Life Science and Operations Management (SMRLO), 15-18 Feb. 2016, Beer Sheva, Israel N2 - Specification of the target reliability levels is one of the key issues of the assessment of existing systems. ISO 2394:2015 indicate procedures for specification of the target reliability levels by optimisation of the total cost related to an assumed remaining working life of a structural system. These approaches are critically compared with human safety criteria and with recommendations of present standards. It appears that the requirement on the same target reliability levels for existing civil engineering systems as for newly designed is uneconomical. Decisions in the assessment can result in the acceptance of the actual state or in upgrade of the existing structure, two reliability levels are thus needed - the minimum level below which the structure is unreliable and should be upgraded, and the target level indicating an optimum upgrade strategy. When reliability of a system or its key component is verified (as compared to design of a common component), the target reliability index should be increased by about 0.5. KW - cost optimization KW - Economics KW - existing structural systems KW - human safety KW - ISO Standards KW - Optimization KW - Reliability engineering KW - safety KW - target reliability Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/SMRLO.2016.28 SP - 109 EP - 114 PB - IEEE ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Sýkora, Miroslav A1 - Markova, Jana A1 - Diamantidis, Dimitris T1 - Bayesian Network Application for the Risk Assessment of Existing Energy Production Units T2 - 2016 Second International Symposium on Stochastic Models in Reliability Engineering, Life Science and Operations Management (SMRLO), 15-18 Feb. 2016, Beer Sheva, Israel N2 - A Bayesian network is applied in this contribution in order to assess the risks of a selected production unit in a fossil power station. A general framework for the risk assessment of production units of a power station is presented first by implementing statistical methods and Bayesian networks. Special emphasis is given to the input data consisting of failure rates which are obtained on the basis of recorded data and expert judgements. The consequences of failure are divided into economical and human (societal): economic consequences include outages of key technological devices, societal consequences cover potential injuries and fatalities. Probabilistic risk assessment methods are applied to the selected production unit of a power station. The influence of the uncertainties in the considered technical parameters on the availability of the unit is assessed and the acceptance of the calculated availability represented through the mean value and the standard deviation is discussed. Societal risks given in terms of weighted injuries and fatalities are obtained and respective risk acceptance criteria are presented. Uncertainties affecting the risks are discussed. It appears that the proposed framework provides a valuable assessment of the influence individual devices and their components on availability and societal risk. For that purpose the used methodology, intentionally simplified for operational applications, includes important factors affecting risks of production units. It is concluded that Bayesian networks are a transparent method for the probabilistic risk assessment of complex technological systems. The results of the performed analyses can be easily updated when additional information becomes available as illustrated in characteristic examples. KW - Availability KW - Bayes methods KW - Bayesian networks KW - Economics KW - Power generation KW - Probabilistic logic KW - Production KW - Production unit KW - Risk analysis KW - Societal risk KW - Uncertainties KW - uncertainty Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/SMRLO.2016.116 SP - 656 EP - 664 PB - IEEE ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Höller, Christoph A1 - Zeitler, Berndt T1 - Playing ball with transients on the force plate and on the reception plate T2 - Noise control for a better environment. PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNOISE 2019. The 48th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering, June 16-19, Madrid KW - Impact Noise KW - Reception Plate KW - Transient Excitation KW - Heavy Soft Impact Source Y1 - 2019 UR - http://www.sea-acustica.es/fileadmin//INTERNOISE_2019/Fchrs/Proceedings/2160.pdf PB - INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NOISE CONTROL ENGINEERING ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Höller, Christoph A1 - Zeitler, Berndt A1 - Reinhold, S. A1 - Jakob, A. A1 - Hopkins, C. T1 - Charakterisierung von Körperschallquellen auf der Empfangsplatte mit Hilfe von orthogonalen Funktionen T2 - Tagungsband - DAGA 2019 : 45. Jahrestagung für Akustik : 18.-21. März 2019, Rostock Y1 - 2019 UR - https://pub.dega-akustik.de/DAGA_2019/data/daga19_proceedings.pdf SN - 978-3-939296-14-0 SP - 93 EP - 96 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - GEN A1 - Schermer, Detleff ED - Schermer, Detleff ED - Brehm, Eric T1 - Mauerwerk-Kalender 2021 BT - Kunststoffverankerungen, Digitalisierung im Mauerwerksbau KW - Mauerwerksbau KW - Mauerwerk KW - Kunststoffbauteil Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-433-03293-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/9783433610732 VL - 2021 PB - Ernst & Sohn GmbH CY - Berlin ET - 46 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Schermer, Detleff ED - Schermer, Detleff ED - Brehm, Eric T1 - Mauerwerk-Kalender 2022 BT - Fassadengestaltung, Bauphysik, Innovationen KW - Mauerwerksbau KW - Mauerwerk KW - Kunststoffbauteil Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-433-03356-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/9783433611029 VL - 47 PB - Ernst & Sohn GmbH CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Diamantidis, Dimitris A1 - Sýkora, Miroslav T1 - Optimizing Monitoring - Implementation of Draft Guideline and Case Study of Roof Exposed to Snow Loads T2 - Proceedings of 40th IABSE Symposium : Tomorrow's Megastructures, Nantes, France, 19-21 September 2018 N2 - This contribution addresses the optimisation of monitoring and decision-making criteria regarding the future use of structures and the related implementation in modern guidelines. A summary of the state-of-practice reveals deficiencies that are addressed by prospective guidance for the anticipated updates of standards, providing a general methodology to obtain cost-optimal decisions using limit state design, probabilistic reliability analysis and cost estimates. The implementation of a draft guideline and the corresponding risk-based approach are illustrated in a full-scale case study dealing with the roof of a stadium located in Northern Italy. The results demonstrate the potential of using monitoring systems and probabilistic reliability analysis in order to support decisions regarding safety measures such as snow removal, or temporary closure of the stadium. KW - cost optimisation KW - decision making criteria KW - Eurocodes KW - monitoring KW - reliability analysis KW - snow load KW - stadium roof KW - standard Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-85748-161-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2749/nantes.2018.s27-27 PB - Curran Associates Inc CY - Red Hook, NY ER - TY - GEN A1 - Diamantidis, Dimitris T1 - Risk based acceptance and decision criteria for the transportation of hazardous materials T2 - 6th International Conference on Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management. - Chania,Crete 04.-07.09.2018 Y1 - 2018 ER -