Conference Topics

Safety, reliability and risk are key issues in a world with continuously increasing complexity. Structural accidents, collapses, terrorist attacks, fires or natural hazards like hurricanes, floods or earthquakes show the vulnerability of our technical facilities and the influence of the natural and social environment. Therefore the consideration of safety and risk is without doubt a very important issue during the design of technical engineering facilities. Questions about the analysis and treatment of safety and risk arise,as well as questions about optimal safety levels or questions about acceptable values and codified design rules considering safety, risk and robustness issues.

Those interested in structural safety, durability and robustness as well as in broader views on the subject will find appropriate sessions during the workshop. Possible topics include various aspects of structural safety, probabilistic material description, risk assessment for technical and natural hazards and risk perception, structural robustness, durability, assessment of existing structures and facilities, applied Bayesian techniques, etc.

Therefore the conference deals with probabilistic aspects in

Assessment and Design
Costs
Maintenance and Rehabilitation
Damage Processes
Performance of Special Structures
Integrated Planning of Building