Course Details
Reliabilty Theory of Building Materials
Academic Year 2025/26
NDB026 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIM Winter Semester 2nd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction of reliability theory, reliability background of standards for structural design (Eurocodes), structural resistance and load action as two independent random variables, reliability condition, reserve of reliability.
- 2. Limit states and philosophy of design by standards; Reliability standards: theoretical failure probability, reliability index.
- 3. Numerical simulation method Monte Carlo in applications.
- 4. Computation model, model uncertainty, grosses errors.
- 5. Numerical simulation methods Latin Hypercube Sampling, Importace Sampling in applications, FORM, SORM approximation methods.
- 6. Linear elastic fracture mechanic - used of statistics and sensitivity analysis; verification and calibration of standards; design procedures.
- 7.–8. Modeling of failure process in concrete structures; Fictive crack model, Fictive crack model and rotate crack model.
- 9.–10. Reliability of the elements made of quasi-brittle materials, computations in ATENA code.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Recapitulation of probability and statistics using simple examples.
- 2. Examples on usage of Cornell reliability index.
- 3. Simple example to learn Monte Carlo simulation method using Excel.
- 4. Calculations of failure probability via Latin Hypercube Sampling in Excel.
- 5. More complex examples on simulation methods using Excel.
- 6. Linear elastic fracture mechanics, simple calculations.
- 7.–8. Finite element method software Atena, creation of computational model.
- 9.–10. Randomization of Atena model through Sara studio.