Human Safety Criteria for Risk-Based Structural Design

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/SAFE-V8-N2-287-298" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/SAFE-V8-N2-287-298</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/SAFE-V8-N2-287-298" target="_blank" >10.2495/SAFE-V8-N2-287-298</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Human Safety Criteria for Risk-Based Structural Design

Original language description

Risk and reliability criteria are well established in many industrial sectors such as the offshore, chemical or nuclear industries. Comparative risk thresholds have been specified to allow a responsible organization or regulator to identify activities, which impose an acceptable level of risk concerning the participating individuals, or society as a whole. The scope of this contribution is to present target reliability criteria based on acceptable human safety levels. Application of theoretical principles is illustrated by examples of railway engineering structures. Initially it is shown how civil engineering structures for which human safety criteria play a role are classified according to Eurocodes. Examples include bridges, tunnels or station buildings. The general concepts for risk acceptance are then briefly reviewed, particularly in their relation to the target reliability criteria. The distinction between the two types of criteria is made: group risk and the acceptance criterion based on the Life Quality Index LQI approach introduced by ISO 2394:2015. The differences between the criteria for new and existing structures are discussed. The application is illustrated by an example of a bridge crossing an important railway line. It appears that while benefits and costs of a private stakeholder or public authority are reflected by economic optimisation, the society should define the limits for human safety to achieve uniform risks for various daily-life activities and across different industrial sectors.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20101 - Civil engineering

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International journal of safety and security engineering

ISSN

2041-9031

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

287-298

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85041817788