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Reliability verification for composite structures of annular cross section

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The performance and reliability of tubular composite structures are considered. The suitability of concrete-filled plastic and steel tubes for building structures is discussed. The strength and structural safety of tubular composite members of annular cross section are analyzed, and the criteria of limit states for tubular composite members under concentric and eccentric axial compression are studied. The time-variant functions of efficiency of the members and their components are presented as random processes of variations in their compressive resistance and internal actions. The safety design of the members is based on the conceptions of their conventional resistance, sequences of safety margin, and transformed conditional probabilities.

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  1. Department of Steel and Timber Structures, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, LT-10223, Vilnius-40, Lithuania

    A. K. Kvedaras & B. Valiūnas

  2. KTU Institute of Architecture and Construction, LT-44405, Kaunas, Lithuania

    A. Kudzys

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Russian translation published in Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 591–604, July–August, 2009. Original article submitted 2008.

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Kvedaras, A.K., Kudzys, A. & Valiūnas, B. Reliability verification for composite structures of annular cross section. Mech Compos Mater 45, 407–414 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11029-009-9094-5

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