Reliability Analysis for Eccentrically Loaded Columns

ACI Structural Journal, Sep/Oct 2005 by Szerszen, Maria M, Szwed, Aleksander, Nowak, Andrzej S

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ACI member Maria M. Szerszen is an associate research scientist in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. She is a member of ACI Committee 348, Structural Safety, and Joint ACI-ASCE Committee 343, Concrete Bridge Design.

Aleksander Szwed is an assistant professor in the Institute of Structural Mechanics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.

Andrzej S. Nowak, FACI, is a distinguished professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. He is a member of ACI Committees 318, Structural Concrete Building Code; 318-C, Safety, Serviceability, and Analysis; 348, Structural Safety; and Joint ACI-ASCE Committee 343, Concrete Bridge Design.