A study and development of Windows based program for structural reliability analysis

In this report, a Windows application names "RAP" (Reliability Analysis Program) has been developed to evaluate the reliability of the structure, with known analytical expressions, which can be indicated in terms of reliability index and the probability of failure. In the computation part of the program, the reliability methods which are used in the program are First Order Reliability Method (FORM) and Monte-Carlo Simulation method (MCS). The result of reliability analysis using RAP program is compared with the one from the VaP program. The comparision shows that result from the RAP program is almost the same as the one from the Vap in both methods.