RELIABILITY STUDIES ON REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMN SUBJECTED TO AXIAL LOAD WITH NATURAL STONE AS COARSE AGGREGATE
Abstract
This paper presents the reliability assessment of a reinforced concrete column subjected to Axial loading. Locally available natural aggregate (NA) was used in concrete production, the results of preliminary tests revealed the aggregate was adequate for concrete production. A typical column cross section of 230 × 240 × 3000mm was adopted and probabilistically assessed. First Order Reliability Method (FORM) was employed to estimate the implied probabilities of failures. The results of the sensitivity analysis showed that the reinforced concrete column is structurally safe at length, breadth and depth of 3200, 240 and 230 mm with Probability of Failures of 1.14 10-3, 8.45 × 10-4 and 8.45 × 10-4 respectively.
Keywords: Axial load, column, Concrete, Natural stone, Reliability.
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