Abstract
AbstractLinguistic qualifications of hidden uncertainties of literary variables appear at the beginning of the Structural Codes. These literary variables (like “care of designer”, “capacity of builder”, etc.) have influences on the numerical values of classical variables defined in the codes (like “resistance”, “areas of reinforcement”, “depth of sections”, “loads”, etc. An attempt is made in this paper to transform the subjectively linguistic qualifications of literary variables to numerical values assessed by calculus using fuzzy arithmetic and fuzzy logic. To reach this target all qualifications of linguistic variables are given using fuzzy numbers established in two scales and chosen by consensus of experts. These qualifications are transformed into coefficients by “filtering” using the filters also established by consensus of experts. For classical variables considered “pro‐safety” PS and “anti‐safety” AS two different types of the coefficients are considered and, as a consequence, two different types of filters are used. Also maximum values of AS (anti‐safety) and minimum values of PS (pro‐safety) of the coefficients are given. Considerations on sensitivity of the approach due to subjectivity are made.
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