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Apr 26, 2012
Safety Issues for Performance Based Design of High-Speed MAGLEV Guideway Structures
Publication: Structures Congress 2009: Don't Mess with Structural Engineers: Expanding Our Role
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This paper discusses performance based design issues that were considered during a Phase I study of structural safety associated with the proposed implementation of a high speed MAGLEV guideway. In the current paper, the concept of PBD implies explicit (as compared with implicit) imposition of probabilistic design limits, but does not preclude the possibility of partial safety factor design for certain limit states, provided the relevant factors are explicitly assigned based upon target reliability levels for those limit states. Neither is it assumed that only a partial safety factor format is applicable for all relevant limit states. In some instances, simulation based design assessment such as widely discussed in the literature may be the only reasonable approaches.
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© 2009 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Bridge design
- Business management
- Design (by type)
- Engineering fundamentals
- Guideways
- Infrastructure
- Limit states
- Magnetic levitation trains
- Mathematics
- Performance-based design
- Practice and Profession
- Probability
- Public administration
- Public health and safety
- Public transportation
- Safety
- Structural design
- Structural safety
- Transportation engineering
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University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA. E-mail: [email protected]
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