SOFTWARE FOR RELIABILITY-BASED ANALYSIS

The paper presents a concept for software designed specifically for re liability based structural analysis. While incorporating traditional F inite-Element-Analysis (FE), the software concentrates on the treatmen t of the randomness of loads and structural parameters as extension of the usual design variables. A completely interactive program structur e based on the so-called Structural Language (SLang) enables the trans fer of data between different computational tasks. In this context, th e utilization of third-party FE-codes is possible and has been success fully tested. In its final form, the software will rely on specificall y designed FE software currently under development. This will enable t he realization of a COSSAN (Computational Stochastic Structural Analys is) package. Several examples show the realization of the software and application to engineering problems.