Research Article

A Novel Approach to Evaluate the Time-Variant System Reliability of Deteriorating Concrete Bridges

Table 1

Critical parameters involved in the structural failure modes.

Parameters
Examples
Structural
failure mode
Minimum degree of
static indeterminacy
SubsetMinimum number of
the occurring CFMs
Including CFMs

One-story truss10121–5
21111–5

Two-story truss121–5
10226–10
331–10
21121–10
32111–10

CFMs: component failure modes.