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There are many modes of failure in structural systems, depending on the configuration of the systems shapes and materials of the members, the loading conditions, etc. In order to perform the reliability assessment of the systems, those failure modes and their safety margins are to be given. For a simple type of structure the safety margins can be obtained by hand calculation. In the field of conventional systems reliability analysis, potential collapse mechanisms are specified and their safety margins are derived by using the principle of virtual work [5.1]. However, it is difficult in practice for a large structure with a high degree of redundancy to determine a priori which failure modes are probabilistically significant.
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Thoft-Christensen, P., Murotsu, Y. (1986). Automatic Generation of Safety Margins. In: Application of Structural Systems Reliability Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82764-8_5
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