<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The design of timber structures according to the current generation of Eurocodes results in new requirements being set for the authors of architectural and building designs with respect to the reliability management of such structures. The reliability problems should be formulated in the building permit design in an unequivocal manner, obliging the authors of the detailed design, as well as the contractors to deliver structures, which have all the operational parameters fully conforming to the expectations of the investor. Substantive and formal basics in this regard are formulated in the Eurocodes: PN-EN 1990, PN-EN 1991, PN-EN 1995 as well as in the related European codes. The reliability management problems of contemporary timber structures are related to the cubature buildings of different life spans, including buildings subjected to the climate loads characterised by several hundred year-long return periods..</p></abstract>

The design of timber structures according to the current generation of Eurocodes results in new requirements being set for the authors of architectural and building designs with respect to the reliability management of such structures. The reliability problems should be formulated in the building permit design in an unequivocal manner, obliging the authors of the detailed design, as well as the contractors to deliver structures, which have all the operational parameters fully conforming to the expectations of the investor. Substantive and formal basics in this regard are formulated in the Eurocodes: PN-EN 1990, PN-EN 1991, PN-EN 1995 as well as in the related European codes. The reliability management problems of contemporary timber structures are related to the cubature buildings of different life spans, including buildings subjected to the climate loads characterised by several hundred year-long return periods..

Reliability Component Differentiation in Building Structures Made of Timber

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The design of timber structures according to the current generation of Eurocodes results in new requirements being set for the authors of architectural and...

Reliability Component Differentiation in Building Structures Made of Timber

Publicado en línea: 21 may 2020

Páginas: 141 - 152

Recibido: 11 ene 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.18.026.7999

Palabras clave
timber, bearing capacity, reliability, destruction consequence classes, reliability classes, return period, reference period, loads

© 2020 Marian Gwóźdź, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

Reliability Component Differentiation in Building Structures Made of Timber

Publicado en línea: 21 may 2020

Páginas: 141 - 152

Recibido: 11 ene 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.18.026.7999

Palabras clavetimber, bearing capacity, reliability, destruction consequence classes, reliability classes, return period, reference period, loads

© 2020 Marian Gwóźdź, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

Palabras clave
timber, bearing capacity, reliability, destruction consequence classes, reliability classes, return period, reference period, loads