A critical appraisal of methods to determine failure probabilities

Structural Safety

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1987, Pages 293-309

  Schueller G I ^a   Stix, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - LINEARIZATION; PROBABILITY - CALCULATIONS;

DESIGN POINT; FAILURE PROBABILITY; SIMULATION TECHNIQUES; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 0023401249     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-4730(87)90004-X     Document Type: Article

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