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Area of Science:

  • Civil Engineering
  • Risk Analysis
  • Hydraulic Engineering

Background:

  • Assessing river bridge safety is complex due to uncertain factors.
  • Traditional reliability analyses are unsuitable for nonlinear, systematic problems.
  • Bridge reliability is crucial, especially concerning flood resistance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a more precise probabilistic approach for river bridge safety evaluation.
  • To analyze the system reliability of a bridge considering five limit states.
  • To incorporate uncertainties from river hydraulics and wind loads.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized Bayesian least squares support vector machines to build a response surface.
  • Employed Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) for efficient sampling and safety index calculation.
  • Integrated a probabilistic HEC-RAS simulation for river hydraulics-influenced variables (water elevation, velocity, scour).

Main Results:

  • The proposed approach provides a more accurate safety index for river bridges.
  • Effectively captures uncertainties from water surface elevation, velocity, scour depth, soil properties, and wind load.
  • Confirmed accuracy and satisfactory variation through direct MCS.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method offers an efficient and accurate solution for probabilistic bridge safety evaluation.
  • The approach successfully integrates hydraulic and load uncertainties into reliability analysis.
  • Demonstrated applicability and reliability for real-world bridge safety assessments.