Autor/autori: SOME ASPECTS CONCERNING THE DURABILITY OF SERVICE AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE BUILDING SECTOR
Abstract: The paper is aimed to present some ideas on the connection between the strategies of development of a safe and reliable infrastruacture as a whole and the components pertaining to the built environment. After a brief look on the development of methods of structural mechanics and the theory of safety, a qualitative, summary, overview on some aspects of providing appropriate safety and durability to the components of the bulding stock is intended. Some general, qualitative, aspects are followed by an analytical approach to the macro-analysis of risk of engineering works as a whole, presentinng some basic relations, are dealt with. Some illustratve results of engineering interest concerning the recurrrence of wind action and of the seismic action are presented. Some summary conclusions are finally presented.
Keywords: safety, durability, recurence, risk analysis