Quantification of different NDTSDT methods in respect to estimate the load-bearing capacity》.pdf

Construction and Building Materials xxx (2015) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Construction and Building Materials journal homepage: /lo cate/conbuildmat Quantification of different NDT/SDT methods in respect to estimate the load-bearing capacity Gerhard Fink a,⇑, Jochen Kohler b a Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland b NTNU, Department of Structural Engineering, Trondheim, Norway h i g h l i g h t s Quantification of different NDT/SDT inspection methods. Estimation of the load-bearing capacity of structural components. Bayes updating using equality type information and inequality type information. Decision support for the corresponding engineer. a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: In the presented paper, different NDT, SDT and DT inspections methods are introduced and their effi- Received 18 May 2015 ciency in respect to a quantitative estimation of the load-bearing capacity are discussed. Thereby it is par- Received in revised form 6 July 2015 ticular focused on inspections methods for the estimation of the load-bearing capacity of glued laminated Accepted 8 July 2015 timber. The estimation of the load-bearing capacity of structural components, based on different types of Available online xxxx information, is presented by using Bayes updating. For this purpose, the information is classified accord- ing to their characterist