Reliability calculation based on a robust importance sampling method

37th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structure, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 1316-1325

  Torng, T Y ^a   Lin, H Z ^a   Khalessi, M R ^a  

^a Rockwell International   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; CALCULATIONS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SAFETY FACTOR;

ADAPTIVE SAMPLING; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING METHOD; ITERATION METHOD; MOST PROBABLE POINT; NON-DIFFERENTIABLE; PROBABILITY OF FAILURE; RELIABILITY CALCULATION;

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

MOST PROBABLE POINT LOCUS; PROBABILITY OF FAILURE; RACKWITZ-FIESSLER; ROBUST IMPORTANCE SAMPLING METHOD;

EID: 0029710731     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1996-1463     Document Type: Conference Paper

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