Code performance assessment: application to the pull-out strength of concrete

Title: Code performance assessment: application to the pull-out strength of concrete
Author(s): J. Al-Hajjar, D. Boissier, D. Breysse
Paper category : journal
Serial title: Materials and Structures
Abreviated Serial title: Mater. Struct.
ISSN: 1359-5997
Publisher: RILEM Publications SARL
Volume: 38
Issue: 281
Issue date: 2005-08-01
Publication year: 2005
Pages: 691 - 699
Total Pages: 9
Nb references: 8
Language: English

Abstract: This paper deals with the investigation into the best fitted program for solving a particular problem.
We present a general method to assess the efficiency of a code in the general context where both experimental results (due to problems of experimental reproducibility and/or sample size) and theoretical results (predicted by the computer code) are uncertain.
This method is based on the use of fuzzy sets to represent partial results and on a method to aggregate them into a global confidence degree.
This method is applied to the problem of the pulling steel plugs out of a block of concrete or masonry, the code being based on limit analysis theory.

Online publication: 2005-02-15
Classification: Scientific Reports
Publication type : full_text
Public price (Euros): 0.00
doi: 10.1617/14219