The design of debris flow protective structures has represented a challenge since the last decades. The design process might consider several variables related to actions and resistances, mainly linked to impact pressure and dynamic pressure resistance. Debris flow events do not have always the same magnitude, and small events can occur with a high probability. Therefore, an events frequency-magnitude relationship might be considered in the design of protective structures. In the Eurocodes framework, the fixed partial safety factors design approach not considering the intrinsic site variability of these phenomena, does not allow obtaining a specific probability of failure. Reliability-based approaches reveal to be compelling solutions. Focusing on flexible barriers, the paper presents a novel time-independent reliability approach, which considers all the possible debris flow events and provides the failure probability of a barrier in a given temporal interval.

A time-independent reliability based design approach for debris flow flexible barriers / Marchelli, Maddalena; Deangeli, Chiara. - In: E3S WEB OF CONFERENCES. - ISSN 2267-1242. - 415:(2023), p. 07010. (Intervento presentato al convegno PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEBRIS-FLOW HAZARD MITIGATION tenutosi a TORINO nel JUNE 26-29, 2023) [10.1051/e3sconf/202341507010].

A time-independent reliability based design approach for debris flow flexible barriers

Marchelli, Maddalena;Deangeli, Chiara
2023

Abstract

The design of debris flow protective structures has represented a challenge since the last decades. The design process might consider several variables related to actions and resistances, mainly linked to impact pressure and dynamic pressure resistance. Debris flow events do not have always the same magnitude, and small events can occur with a high probability. Therefore, an events frequency-magnitude relationship might be considered in the design of protective structures. In the Eurocodes framework, the fixed partial safety factors design approach not considering the intrinsic site variability of these phenomena, does not allow obtaining a specific probability of failure. Reliability-based approaches reveal to be compelling solutions. Focusing on flexible barriers, the paper presents a novel time-independent reliability approach, which considers all the possible debris flow events and provides the failure probability of a barrier in a given temporal interval.
2023
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