Sustainability of steel structures: towards an integrated approach to life-time engineering design

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Sustainability of steel structures: towards an integrated approach to life-time engineering design

Raffaele LANDOLFO(

), Lucrezia CASCINI, Francesco PORTIOLI

Department of Constructions Mathematical Methods in Architecture, University of Naples Federico II, Naples 40-80138, Italy

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Abstract

Nowadays, the construction sector is more and more oriented toward the promotion of sustainability in all its activities. The goal to achieve is the optimization of performances, over the whole life-cycle, with respect to environmental, economic and social requirements. According to the latest advances, the concept of sustainability applied to constructions covers a number of branches such as life-cycle costing, ecology, durability and even structural design. Several procedures and design tools have been implemented in the framework of international research. Indeed the current trend in civil engineering research is moving towards life-time engineering, with the aim to implement integrated methodologies to consider as a whole all the sustainability requirements according to time-dependent multi-performance-based design approaches. Following a general introduction of the concept of sustainability applied to constructions, this paper presents an overview of life-time engineering methodologies according to the current state-of-the-art. In particular the methods currently received by International Standards are discussed. A special focus is devoted to the durability design of metal structures with respect to the degradation phenomena able to impair the structural capacity over time. Finally a proposal towards an integrated approach to life-time engineering design of steel structures and needs for further advances are presented.

Keywords sustainability life-time engineering performance based design durability metal structures

Corresponding Author(s): LANDOLFO Raffaele,Email:landolfo@unina.it

Issue Date: 05 September 2011

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Lucrezia CASCINI,Francesco PORTIOLI,Raffaele LANDOLFO. Sustainability of steel structures: towards an integrated approach to life-time engineering design[J]. Front Arch Civil Eng Chin, 0, (): 304-314.

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Fig.1 Percentage of the total waste generated in the EU-27 by Economic Sector (a); construction waste sorted by type (b)

Tab.1 An overview of life-time engineering requirements

Fig.2 A sketch of life-time engineering concept

Fig.3 A schematic representation of the result of an analysis. The environmental impacts can be represented as CO emitted per each stage of the life-cycle

Fig.4 A representation of reliability-based life-cycle costing (adapted by Frangopol & Estes [])

Fig.5 Formal representation of the deterioration of structural capacity over time

Fig.6 The flowchart for the proposed approach to the durability design of metal structures

Fig.7 The three dimension of life-time engineering according to an integrated approach

Fig.8 The flowchart for the proposed approach to the durability design of metal structures

Fig.9 A formal representation of ideal positive and negative solutions and the relative distances according to the TOPSIS method

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