JCSS Workshop – Structural Safety – past advancements and future challenges, 22-23 May 2024
Structural safety is affected by many uncertainties related to material and geometrical properties, system behaviour, load and degradation effects, etc. The need to systematically quantify and correctly consider such uncertainties in reliability assessments of structures made of various materials and for multiple purposes was one of the main reasons for establishing an international research organisation – the Joint Committee on Structural Safety. Over half a century ago, the founding associations included ECCS, fib, IABSE, IASS, and RILEM. The workshop organised on the occasion of the 50th anniversary provided an overview of JCSS achievements and helped identify the challenges in the field to be addressed.
Globally recognised experts from prestigious technical universities and research organisations (EPF Lausanne, Lund, NTNU Trondheim, RWTH Aachen, TNO Delft, TU Munich, Tongji Univ. Shanghai etc.) presented contributions focused on uncertainties in resistance and load effect models, reliability of a range of engineering structures, resilience of infrastructures, sustainability and decision making, calibration of partial factors for design, assessment of existing structures, etc. The workshop was held hybrid, with forty in-person participants (from many European countries, China, Japan, and South Africa), with many others connected online.
Jochen Köhler, president of JCSS
Workshop participants
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