Stochastic Perturbation Analysis of Deteriorated Structures

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The paper addresses a generalized perturbation method for the uncertainty analysis of concrete structures subject to reinforcement corrosion. The initiation phase is modelled by the well known Ficks 2nd law of diffusion. Deterioration models derived from experimental studies and a non-linear finite element (FE) model are used to simulate the structural behaviour of beams from the serviceability to the ultimate conditions. The time of corrosion initiation and the failure load are expressed by a Taylor series expansion about the origin of the space of independent standard normal random variables.

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