Sensitivity and importance measures in structural reliability

Civil Engineering Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1986, Pages 203-209

  Hohenbichler, M ^a   Rackwitz, R ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

importance measures; probability theory; random variables; reliability; safety; sensitivity measures

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY - THEORY; RELIABILITY - EVALUATION;

FAILURE PROBABILITY; GENERALIZED SAFETY INDEX; RELIABILITY METHODS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 0023011217     PISSN: 02630257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02630258608970445     Document Type: Article

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