Abstract
For the purpose of estimating the probability of failure, at a given level of nominal safety factor, of reinforced concrete building frame which is subjected to simple proportional lateral loads, the procedure of a monte carlo simulation approach is discribed in this paper. The simulation technique presented in this paper to treat both axial and bending deformations of frame members is the extended approach developed from J.J. HEALEY's method which dealt with bending deformation only in his simulation on random nonlinear beam behavior. From the results of the simulation, a plausible tendency of the characteristics of stochastic model to represent the overall distribution of observed failure load of reinforced concrete building frame has been obtained.
