TIME DEPENDENT STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY. ACMSM 9; THE NINTH AUSTRALASIAN CONFERENCE ON THE MECHANICS OF STRUCTURES AND MATERIALS, 29-31 AUGUST 1984, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

This paper presents an example of the way structural reliability may change with time, in this case due to the effect of low-cycle fatigue. This may be of interest for structures subject to the possibility of high overload during their design lives. Inelastic fracture mechanics theory is reviewed in the first part of the paper. This is followed by a discussion of distributions appropriate for use in a reliability analysis. Monte-Carlo simulation is then employed to show how, typically, the failure probability changes with the number of load applications to the structure, i.e., with time. (Author/TRRL)