Research Article

A Comparative Study of First-Order Reliability Method-Based Steepest Descent Search Directions for Reliability Analysis of Steel Structures

Table 3

Random variables for two-span beam.

Variables Distribution functionMeanStandard deviation

(kg/cm)Log-normal405
(cm)Log-normal80060
(cm3)Normal2180200
Normal10.1
(kg/cm2)Log-normal2400200
Normal0.90.08