Sensitivity analysis of timber-concrete composite structures

Abstract

The sensitivity analysis could be defined as a study of how the variability of the output parameter of the considered model can be distributed to its sources, actually, on the variability of the various input model parameters. It helps to identify the most important design parameters of a particular structure and to focus on them during the design and optimization process. This paper is focused on the application of stochastic sensitivity analysis of maximum equivalent stress and maximum mid-span deflection of timber-concrete composite beam. All input parameters were considered to be random variables. Latin Hypercube Sampling numerical simulation method was employed. The estimation of the sensitivity was derived from Spearman rank-order correlation coefficient.