This paper summarizes the results of research to develop reliability-based design methods for use with the United States Air Force Protective Construction Design Manual (PCDM).
In order to develop reliability- and performance-based design procedures for FRP based repair, design uncertainties present in the existing structure and introduced by the FRP must be quantified.
Although the performance of existing energy pile technology is satisfactory and recent investigators have significantly advanced the understanding of the load-transfer mechanisms of energy piles, it is still necessary to quantify the uncertainty in the thermal mechanical analysis and to develop reliability-based designs for energy piles.
There have been noteworthy researches in developing reliability assessment methods [5, 6, 7, 8, 9].
Using the developed reliability framework and Monte Carlo simulation, the time-variant service reliability of a typical PT bridge over a 75-year period is estimated.
Other researchers [8, 19, 20, 21, 24, 27] have also developed reliability and cost models incorporating both testing phase and operating phase in the software development cycle for estimating the reliability of software systems in the field.
The database is now accessible "on line" by the way of an Internet browsers and Lotus Notes application for analyst or designers developing reliability and probabilistic safety assessments.
Research needs relative to this problem, delineated herein, are principally those of developing reliability models of material behavior, obtaining the data to compute parameter values, and developing efficient computational methods for fatigue reliability and maintainability analysis of "large -scale series and redundant structures.
