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Citation for published version (APA):Simoes da Silva, L., Tankova, T., Marques, L., Kuhlmann, U., Kleiner, A., Spiegler, J., ... Popa, N. (2017). Safety assessment across modes driven by plasticity, stability and fracture. In 8th European Conference on Steel and Composite Structures (EUROSTEEL 2017), September 13-15, 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark (pp. 3689-3698). (CE/Papers; Vol. 1, No. 2-3). DOI: 10.1002/cepa.425
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ABSTRACTThe European design rules for steel structures in EN1993 cover various failure modes that were developed using different methodologies in terms of accuracy and safety. Consequently, the safety level of these design rules is not homogeneous throughout their own field of application, as well as in comparison between different rules. Safety is regulated by partial factors for the various loads and resistances, respectively. EN 1990 -Annex D offers a procedure for the reliability assessment of resistance functions, based on a semi-probabilistic approach. However, its application is not straightforward in many cases concerning steel design rules and several additional assumptions are necessary to ensure that a target probability failure is achieved. Moreover, the design rules are calibrated using certain variability values for the relevant parameters, such as material properties, geometric properties and imperfections. It is therefore required to appropriately characterize the statistical distributions of these basic variables in order to comply with the safety assessment procedure. The present research work, carried out in the ...