PROBABILITY-BASED CODIFIED DESIGN - PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES

Structural design codes and standards provide a foundation of good engineering practice. The process of developing probability-based codes has brought the structural reliability research community and engineers in professional practice together and led to research toward a common goal that otherwise would not have been possible. This paper reviews developments in probability-based codified structural design during the past two decades, assesses advantages and shortcomings of the current generation of probability-based codes, and suggests several avenues for new research.