Research Article

Reliability Assessment of Steel-Concrete Composite Beams considering Metal Corrosion Effects

Table 8

Mean estimation with 200,000 Monte Carlo samples of the first and total Sobol’s indices for the 10-year corroded SCC beams.

VariableFirst-order sensitivity Sobol’s indicesTotal-order sensitivity Sobol’s indices

X1 (tw)0.05350.047
X2 (ha)0.02440.0175
X3 (bf)0.00930.0012
X4 (tf)0.01090.0030
X5 (fck)0.41550.4143
X6 (fu)0.52320.5116