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Assessment of the concrete strength in existing buildings using a finite population approach
- Source :
- Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP), instacron:RCAAP
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- A framework is defined to evaluate the concrete compressive strength in existing buildings and control the uncertainty associated to the survey planning and to the concrete strength randomness. The framework proposes the discretization and disaggregation of the concrete strength in a building into finite populations of elements. Finite population statistics are used to correlate the number of tests performed in each population with the uncertainty about the mean and the coefficient of variation (CoV) of the concrete strength. A method to estimate the CoV of the concrete strength using the CoV of rebound hammer test results is also proposed to overcome the need for a high number of destructive tests. Results show that the proposed approach effectively controls the uncertainty in the estimate of the variability of the concrete strength in a population as well as the uncertainty in the estimate of the mean value of the concrete strength.
- Subjects :
- Engineering
Discretization
Population
0211 other engineering and technologies
020101 civil engineering
02 engineering and technology
0201 civil engineering
law.invention
law
021105 building & construction
General Materials Science
Geotechnical engineering
Hammer
education
Randomness
Civil and Structural Engineering
education.field_of_study
business.industry
Mean value
Building and Construction
Structural engineering
Compressive strength
Structural engineering, Civil engineering
Engenharia civil [Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias]
Engenharia estrutural, Engenharia civil
Civil engineering [Engineering and technology]
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09500618
- Volume :
- 110
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Construction and Building Materials
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1f790e86b516e26444472863e990d621