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Estimatingdesign Resistance of Wrought Balcony Girders

Karel Jung, Jana Markova, Miroslav Sykora
Transactions of the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Civil Engineering Series
2017, Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 51-60
Doi: 10.1515/tvsb-2017-0007
The contribution is focused on reliability of balcony girders of a Czech national heritage monument. As preliminary reliability assessment suggests insufficient resistance, a series of non-destructive tests supplemented by a single tensile test are performed and evaluated by the statistical methods. Values of material properties, recommended in standards for historic materials, seem to be overly conservative and it is advised to specify properties of historic metallic materials by tests.
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