Random field-based modeling of size effect on the longitudinal tensile strength of clear timber》.pdf

Structural Safety 58 (2016) 60–68 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Structural Safety journal homepage: /locate/strusafe Random field-based modeling of size effect on the longitudinal tensile strength of clear timber Alireza F. Moshtaghin a, Steffen Franke b, Thomas Keller a, Anastasios P. Vassilopoulos a,⇑ a Composite Construction Laboratory (CCLab), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 16, Bâtiment BP, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland b Timber and Composite Construction, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Solothurnstrasse 102, Biel, Switzerland a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: In the current study, a random field-based size effect model has been proposed for the longitudinal ten- Received 6 November 2014 sile strength of clear timber. Since the failure mode is brittle, the problem is basically an extreme value Received in revised form 8 September 2015 problem of finding the distribution of minima of strength fields for specimens of different volumes. The Accepted 14 September 2015 stochastic response has been evaluated based on the Monte Carlo method along with the weakest link theory. Within the framework of the spectral representation method, the Weibull distribution has been considered as the marginal distribution to generate realizations of the strength as a 3D random field. The Keywords: squared exponential autocorrelation