Title :
The use of reliability index βs in a hospital safety system
Author :
Chen, Jen ; Chen, Kuo-Lane
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Civil Eng., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan
Abstract :
Establishes a new method to determine the safety of a hospital building. A good hospital building should be capable of resisting various loadings such as dead load, live load, wind load, earthquake load, flooding load, thermal load and others. A safety building can be designed using a basic structural analysis. Most loadings vary with time. It is evident that a building needs a simultaneous dynamic analysis. These lateral loadings are random phenomena. Probability theory can be used to analyze these loadings. By using the method of load and resistance factor design (LRFD), we derive a reliability index, which is quite useful in structural design and can be used to indicate the consistency of safety for a hospital
Keywords :
building; health care; probability; random processes; reliability; safety systems; structural engineering; dead load; earthquake load; flooding load; hospital building safety determination; hospital safety system; lateral loadings; live load; load and resistance factor design; load resistance; probability theory; random phenomena; reliability index; safety consistency; simultaneous dynamic analysis; structural analysis; structural design; thermal load; wind load; Acceleration; Biomedical equipment; Biomedical informatics; Buildings; Earthquakes; Equations; Frequency; Gravity; Hospitals; Safety;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 1995., Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Lubbock, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7117-3
DOI :
10.1109/CBMS.1995.465450
