Estimating Design Resistance of Wrought Balcony Girders

Abstract

The contribution is focused on reliability of balcony girders of a Czech national heritage monument. As preliminary reliability assessment suggests insufficient resistance, a series of nondestructive tests supplemented by a single tensile test are performed and evaluated by the statistical methods. Values of material properties, recommended in standards for historic materials, seem to be overly conservative and it is advised to specify properties of historic metallic materials by tests.

Keywords

• Bayesian updating
• Brinell hardness test
• heritage structures
• homogeneity
• material properties
• reliability assessment
• statistical approach
• wrought steel